Good afternoon. In the last hour, Rachel Reeves has used her fIrst Labour Conference Speech as chancellor to promIse that therell be no return to austerIty. After weeks of warnIngs about the dIre state of the publIc fInances, she trIed to convey a brIghter message, sayIng she Is optImIstIc about the uks economIc future. She was brIefly heckled by one protestor at the start of her speech. Our polItIcal correspondent Helen Catt reports. As you can see behInd me, people are stIll fIlIng out from the Conference Hall where Rachel Reeves gave her speech In the last hour or so. A much traIled speech, very antIcIpated because, as we know, there has been crItIcIsm about the gloomy outlook that the chancellor and the PrIme MInIster have been talkIng about. So durIng her speech today, we had the Chancellor Attempt today, we had the Chancellor Attempt to Inject some optImIsm, talkIng about the brItaIn that she hoped to buIld for the future. There were some focus on what labour had already done In
Behaviour, is still employed by harrods the Uk Chancellor says she has hard decisions what will make. Decisions to assist the economy. Also coming up on the World Today prosecutors say the suspected gunman, arrested near donald trumps golf course, wrote a letter saying he planned to assassinate the former president. Welcome to the World Today an hour of international news from the bbc Lebanons Health Ministry says at least 274 people have been killed and more than A Thousand injured in israeli Strikes Today the deadliest day of the Israel Hezbollah Conflict in the past year. Israel says its broadening its strikes against hezbollah as citizens in southern lebanon have received Phone Messages warning them to leave places used by the iran backed group. The israeli Defense Minister and i2 gallant says there been strikes across southern lebanon. The pentagon says it is sending a small number of additional us troops to the Middle East among the growing crisis. This comes among Special Editio
Western country to approve a covert 1000 vaccine for public use those most at risk including Health Workers and tell her residents will get the job from next week Prime Minister baraks johnson praised scientists for their work but said people still need to be cautious Hong Kong Media tycoon and prodemocracy activist jimmy lives been denied bail after being charged with fraud the 73 year old is an outspoken critic of beijing and was arrested in august on suspicion of colluding with Foreign Forces he was later released a much japans government says it has grave concerns over the jailing of 3 other prodemocracy activists joshua wang agnes chao ivan last they were sentenced after pleading guilty to Unlawful Assembly during last years protests wong was jailed for 13 months and got 10 and 7 months respectively. U. S. President obama trying to give a speech on social media repeating his unfounded allegations of Election Fraud facebook and twitter placed warnings on his video statement. The Af
Suspicion of violating beijings National Security law to vehicle pollen reports now from hong kong. This is a very significant case particularly because. For his prodemocracy activities but hes also a huge tycoon here in hong kong for his rags to riches story hes worth an estimated worth of. Media companies. Companies so he is a big fish when it comes to hong kongs Democracy Movement here and his profile here in the city indian pharmacy amazing government ministers for a 2nd round of talks this protest against new agricultural laws intensify farmers worry that the new laws will and minimum crop prices more than 2700. 00 people in the u. S. Have died with the corona virus in the past 24 hours the highest daily toll since april hospital admissions also reached a record 100000 wednesday in the u. K. The pfizer bio and tech curve at 19 vaccine will be administered to high risk groups within days its the 1st country to approve a vaccine thats made it through all the Clinical Trials u. S. Me
Confirmed more than a 1000000 cases of call that 19 is the hardest hit country in the middle east that is easily killed almost 50000 people their Health Minister says the actual number of fatalities is likely to be much higher at that big has more from tehran many people werent tested or in Critical Condition and ended up dying before a test could be administered now the country is in a partial lockdown the figures are slightly down the death toll has decreased from come down from just over 400. 00 true around mid 3350. 00 and the new infections every 24 hours around 13000. 00 now who has to be noted is that iran is experiencing its feared wave of the krona virus or as many countries are still on the 2nd wave. Russia reported more than 28000 new cold in 1000 infections on thursday that it says highest spike yet the 2nd largest city St Petersburg has announced restrictions around the new Year Holidays meanwhile in the u. S. More than 3100 people have died from cold in 19 in a single day