big ben strikes midnight. it s europe s biggest fireworks display and as the countdown began, more than 100,000 people watched along the river thames as the london skyline lit up and the sounds of big ben chimed. you can actually smell the gunpowder the air, you can smell it. it is fireworks night here. big ben, the chimes have rung and we are now officially in 202a. the best show on earth. amazing, indescribable, no words. so worth it, i am loving it so much. this is my first time for london, coming here and seeing this. i i love it, it is so good. this year s theme is unity, a message played from the king. 0ur society is woven from diverse threads. and the london mayor, who thanked those working in the nhs, the police and the fire service. he said the event took months to organise. we have planned this sincejuly. there is a team of 75 who have been working over the last four days. one of our strengths as a city and country is our diversity. we will be celebrating our dive
the #bbcyourquestions no outright winner in the brazilian election left wing candidate luiz inacio lula da silva and right wingerjair bolsonaro will go to a second round run off. an investigation s underway after at least 125 were killed in a crush at a football match in indonesia one of the world s worst stadium disasters. the king and queen consort will undertake their firstjoint public engagements today since the end of the period of royal mourning for the queen. and, meet mr doodle the man from kent who makes his living from doodling and has covered his whole house in drawings. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the government has this morning performed a huge u turn and abandoned its plan to scrap the 45 pence top rate of income tax. the announcement, from chancellor kwasi kwarteng , came just a day after the prime minister liz truss backed the policy. in a statement, mr kwarteng said the 45p tax plan had become a huge distract
extra financial support because of rising energy bills and the cost of staff so public services are already in this place where they had been pared back to the berm and there isn t a space to cut more money and you also have tax credits for low paid parents. rishi sunak guaranteed those would go up in line with inflation as they normally do it next april but kwasi kwarteng and liz truss have refused to give that commitment, which suggest they are thinking about imposing real terms cuts of 10% in benefits on low paid parents. that will affect children and people with disabilities and lots of conservative mps are worried about that. ~ ., , , ., about that. where does this leave labour, about that. where does this leave labour. which about that. where does this leave labour, which has about that. where does this leave labour, which has benefited - labour, which has benefited enormously in the polls so far with labour s plans, they are obviously supportive of the energy support and
president biden has announced an extra one billion dollars in military support for ukraine the largest single military aid package since russia invaded. the us defense secretary said at a nato meeting on wednesday that he will move heaven and earth to ensure ukraine gets the weapons it needs. nato defence ministers are reconvening in brussels for the final day of their summit. let s ta ke let s take you live to kyiv and our correspondentjoe inwood. good morning. two significant developments. those european leaders arriving in the country. but also, that extra military aid, that extra financial support. first of all, your assessment of how significant that visit is from those european leaders? i that visit is from those european leaders? ~ ., , that visit is from those european leaders? ~ . , ., leaders? i think we are seeing two big developments leaders? i think we are seeing two big developments and leaders? i think we are seeing two big developments and two - big developments