did you murder paul? i would never hurt paul. court adjourned late today capping a stunning week by my measure. so what was it like in court today? well anderson, this was the first time we got to see the prosecutor question alex murdaugh about the night of the murders. he asked him what time he got to the kennels where the murder took place. and he asked them these questions repeatedly presumably to try to trip him up. but he kept coming back to the same theme. don t believe what alex murdaugh tells you. i have lied well over a decade. reporter: that is what he was trying to propose on the stand. i told a lie about being down there and got myself wed to that. reporter: waters tried to box murdaugh into a corner using cell phone data and time line evidence from the night of the murders. i m still not absolutely certain how they ended up at the kennel. reporter: murdaugh told the jury he drove his golf cart to meet his wife and son at the kennels. he said t
this situation. we re awaiting that. we ll hear the president s plan, we re told, of action. china today claims that balloon is just a civilian air ship used for research and that it got blown off course. all the way to montana? it just so happens that it was very close to a sensitive site in that state. 1 of 3 in the nation with nuclear weapon silos. it also houses ballistic missiles. montana in red on the map for a reason this hour. deafening reaction so far, bipartisan lawmakers biden allowing on-demand access to our u.s. airspace is dangerous. it is not okay. some republicans, including 2024 hopeful nikki haley, calling on president biden to shoot it down. congressman andy biggs calling biden a affectless commander in chief. secretary of state antony blink en was scheduled to travel to beijing but now the trip is postponed indefinitely. senator tom cotton says biden must answer as to why he hasn t secured u.s. airspace. the president walking away from questions moments ag
as the china party conference begins, the united states says president xi is leading the country in a more aggressive direction. and one of the literary world s biggest prizes, the booker, is won by sri lanka s shahaan karunartilaka, about his country s civil war. i country s civil war. was writing a murder mystery and i was writing a murder mystery and itjust seemed every sri lankan atrocity, we never deal with it, we kind ofjust move on. the british prime minister, liz truss, has said she is sorry and accepts responsibility for mistakes in her economic plan. the majority of measures in her so called mini budget have been reversed by her new chancellor, jeremy hunt. in an interview with our political editor, chris mason, she said the plans had gone too far and too fast , but insisted she would lead the conservatives into the next election. inside ten downing street tonight, today s prime minister in the corridors, those of yesterday on the wall. prime minister, who is to
and misconduct. the mayor of kyiv says that russian strikes on the city this morning have killed one person and wounded three others. good morning and welcome to bbc news. the uk s new chancellorjeremy hunt is to deliver an emergency statement on the british economyjust after 11 o clock this morning, bringing forward measures a fortnight earlier than expected. it s expected there ll be a delay in the plan to cut the basic rate of income tax from 20p to 19p, that would be yet another u turn from the mini budget that caused such turmoil on financial markets. with me now as our chief political correspondent. he is waiting in the wings to talk to me. let me round up, because an hour or so we are expecting to hear from the chancellor, he is going to be making that statement and we are expecting pretty much everything in the mini budgets to be pulled back, except for the national insurance increase, the national insurance cut because that has already been legislated for, obviously