of widespread unrest. taiwan s president tsai ing wen has pledged to bolster the island s combat power and defences in a major speech on taiwan s national day. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. there is one question which haunts the chancellor, haunts any chancellor of any political party stopping it is, what will the iss say? because the verdict of the institute for fiscal studies on whether the numbers add up, any budget or what we these days have to call fiscal event can be devastating for a politician. that verdict is treated like the word of god, not least by broadcasters like the bbc who have experts from the iss on our programmes all the time. our guest is the director of the institute for fiscal studies, the ifs, paul johnston, welcome to political thinking. if the ifs is the word of god, that makes you got. how does that feel? very stran . e! got. how does that feel? very strange! the got. how does that
ten people have been killed and eight injured in an explosion at a petrol station in the republic of ireland police say it appears to have been a tragic accident . protests continue in iran and around the world as three people are killed in the country. now on bbc news it s political thinking with nick robinson. welcome to political thinking. one question haunts the chancellor, any chancellor of any political party. it is what will the iss say because the verdict of the institute for fiscal studies on whether the numbers add up, any budget and what these days we have to call fiscal events, can be devastating for a politician. it is what will the ifs say. that word is treated like the word of god, not least broadcasters like the bbc who have experts from the ifs on our programmes all the time. my guest this week is the director of the ifs, pauljohnson. welcome to the programme. if the ifs is the word of god that makes you god. how does that feel? , , ., that feel? very
that s the fastest job growth at any point of any president. our job market continues to show resilience as we navigate through this economic transition we re n.for for sometime i ve been saying what we need to do in this transition, we have to move from historically a strong economic recovery to a more stable recovery. you heard the president there. u.s. added 263,000 jobs in september, just slightly beating expectations. the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, back to where it was just before the pandemic hit. employers are hiring, but the labor market is slowing down. this is the lowest monthly jobs increase since april of last year. today s report may not be enough to keep the fed from raising interest rates again next month all in an effort to try to squash inflation. investors are not happy today. the dow, s&p 500, nasdaq all down. all right. with us now is senior white house correspondent phil mattingly, cnn reporter matt egan, cnn economics and political commentat
Oi of the uk, temperatures around nine orio of the uk, temperatures around nine or 10 degrees, may be mild in one or two places. Further south than these, it will be brighter, but chilly as well, particularly across east anglia and the south east, Daytime Highs of 5 degrees. Where the skies are clear overnight, we could see some quite sharp frosts. Mind you, that is nothing in comparison with the cold weather which is set to dominate across much of continental europe, with a quite severe frost here, and Daytime Highs remaining below freezing even down across spain and portugal. Hello. This is bbc news. The headlines the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, says the government risks a Future Trade War with europe, following comments by the chancellor which implied the uk could use its Corporate Tax rates to stimulate investment after brexit. The Royal College of surgeons says hospitals around the uk are reporting sharp increases in the number of Cancer Operations being postponed, because of a
Oi of the uk, temperatures around nine orio of the uk, temperatures around nine or 10 degrees, may be mild in one or two places. Further south than these, it will be brighter, but chilly as well, particularly across east anglia and the south east, Daytime Highs of 5 degrees. Where the skies are clear overnight, we could see some quite sharp frosts. Mind you, that is nothing in comparison with the cold weather which is set to dominate across much of continental europe, with a quite severe frost here, and Daytime Highs remaining below freezing even down across spain and portugal. Hello. This is bbc news. The headlines the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, says the government risks a Future Trade War with europe, following comments by the chancellor which implied the uk could use its Corporate Tax rates to stimulate investment after brexit. The Royal College of surgeons says hospitals around the uk are reporting sharp increases in the number of Cancer Operations being postponed, because of a