Of the build up to tonights crucial president ial debate in philadelphia, but were going top start this hour with the first real test of authority for the new uk government. This is the scene in the House Of Commons where mps are about to Vote are voting on the plan to scrap Winter Fuel payments for millions of Pensioners. Its been hugely controversial. It means that more than Nine Million Pensioners will no longer be eligible for up to 300 pounds this winter. Lets go stright to westminster and our deputy political editor, Vicky Young. Westminster and our deputy good westminster and our deputy afternoon. Just set Th Scene good afternoon. Just set the scene for hours. Mps have started that Vote and there is No Doubt it is going to be an awkward afternoon for the government but it is worth emphasising that this new Labour Government has a huge majority so there is no chance of them losing their state which means that this change will go ahead but, as you say, it has proved pretty controv
A hamas command centre. The israeli military saiys it was highly likely that its troops fired the shot that killed an American Turkish Activist at a protest in the occupied West Bank last week, but that it was unintentional. The idf said an initial investigation had been held into the death of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi and expressed its deepest regret over the incident. The idf has also said its forces are resuming operations in the northern West Bank that started almost two weeks ago. Earlier today, during a joint News Conference held by uk foreign Secretary David Lammy and us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken, both countries have confirmed that iran is supplying ballistic missiles to russia. Lets take a listen. Dozens of russian military personnel, trained in iran, to use the close range ballistic missile system, which has a maximum range of 75 miles, and russia has now received shipments of these ballistic missiles, and will likely use them within weeks in ukraine. Against ukrainians. Russ
Debate in philidelphia. But lets start this hour, by going to westminster on A Busy Day of politics the result of the latest ballot in the conservative Leadership Race about to be announced. Let s go back to Vicki Young, our deputy political editor. Five candidates become four, Mel Stride being the lowest in terms of those ballots cast. Lets speak to our deputy political editor, Vicki Young whos inside parliament in central lobby for us. Tell us more. We didnt hear the results, tell us more. We didnt hear the results, unfortunately. L the results, unfortunately. Luckily, i have a colleague who is. We have the latest ballot whittling the numbers down from five to four. The result this time around was robertjenrick with 33. He was top last time and remains in that position. Again in the same position of second. James cleverly was 21, which i think is the same that he was last time around, Tom Tugendhat with 21, and as you say, that means that Mel Stride is eliminated, what this means now
This hour up on Capitol Hill, we should note a Gold Medal Ceremony for the eu 13 u. S Service Members killed and the botched withdrawal from afghanistan, they will be honored of members of both parties are honoring fallen. Well dip into that live in just a few moments from now. So stay with us for that. But in the meantime, joining me now to talk about the debate is former deputy Communications Director for Vice President Kamala Harris, rachel palermo, and former were Trump Administration official matt mowers rachel, let me start with you first. What do you want to hear from Vice President Harris Tonight . I mean, does she have to look at tonight . Is kind of an introduction to voters and were seeing polls that show a huge chunk of voters just, they just want to know more about the Vice President i think its a really important opportunity for people to continue to get to know her. Theres going to be millions of eyes on her tonight and people are seeing that the more that people do get
Late news, Fox News at night breaking tonight less than 24 hours before the big debate and we have brandnew Poll Numbers from the New York times showing Donald Trump leading Kamala Harris in the president ial race, meaning her momentum or her vibe has slowed maybe even stalled which significantly raises the stakes of the big debate and both campaigns doing a fair share of predebate Crash Trash talking. She cannot hide from her tenure during the biden administration. There is no floor for him in terms of how low he would go and we should be prepared for that. Trace we have brandnew information showing the Debate Moderator could be friendlier toward Kamala Harris. The Media Research Centre saying Abc News is the most biased of the three mainstream news networks, worse than cbs and nbc. Plus there is this. I. Screaming at me, throwing mattresses. Im angry that my friends and family are packing up and moving away. I dont know how you can become trouble with this. Trace Another American Tow