rubbish will keep on getting bigger. we ll be live with our business and political correspondent, and assessing how whoever s our next prime minister will deal with these strikes and the cost of living crisis. also this lunchtime. an attempt to cut the price of school uniforms by removing unnecessary branding. a bbc investigation has revealed an online community secretly sharing and trading sexual images of women without their consent. and the duke and duchess of cambridge are moving their family to a new home near the queen in windsor. and in the sport on the bbc news channel, england confirm they will play test cricket in pakistan for the first time in 17 years when they tour the country in december. good afternoon. criminal barristers in england and wales have voted for an all out strike next month, joining a wave of industrial action as workers seek pay rises to keep up with high inflation. some barristers say they earn less than the minumum wage. the government claims st
rubbish will keep on getting bigger. we ll be live with our business and political correspondent, and assessing how whoever s our next prime minister will deal with these strikes and the cost of living crisis. also this lunchtime. an attempt to cut the price of school uniforms by removing unnecessary branding. a bbc investigation has revealed an online community secretly sharing and trading sexual images of women without their consent. and the duke and duchess of cambridge are moving their family to a new home near the queen in windsor. and in the sport on the bbc news channel, england confirm they will play test cricket in pakistan for the first time in 17 years when they tour the country in december.
police in pakistan have charged the country s former prime minister imran khan under anti terror laws. it comes after he accused the police and judicial officials of torturing a close aide. since being ousted from power this year, imran khan has been a vocal critic of pakistan s government and army. hundreds of his supporters have camped outside his home, threatening to take over the capital if he s arrested. sewage discharges at popular british seaside resorts are not being monitored properly that s the claim from the liberal democrats, who say that 90% of the time, monitoring devices have not been installed or don t work. last week, more than 40 beaches and swimming spots in england and wales were hit by pollution warnings, after heavy rain. today, downing street accused water companies of a completely unacceptable failure to reduce sewage discharges. a spokesperson for number 10 said the companies should put customers before shareholders , or face fines. richard galpin reports.
that s right. and not least because, as you have been discussing with caroline, we are all expecting to know on fridayjust how much the energy price cap is going by. we know a little bit more now about how both candidates would respond to this if they were prime minister. liz truss wants to introduce immediate tax cuts to national insurance as well as possibly introducing some more support for households, although she has not given detail about what that would look like and she wants to do this in an emergency budget, within weeks of becoming prime minister. but she has said she would not commission another independent forecast into the state of the government s finances. these forecasts are used to show the impact that things like further tax cuts or public spending could have on the wider economy. rishi sunak has accused ace of being irresponsible, saying that there is not the kind of head room at the economy for tax cuts and help for
think it will go above 13% by the end of the year and that is because of a rise in the cost of energy. the announcement about the energy price cap, the highest amount of money that energy companies can charge people for energy, that is expected to be going up. the announcement about that is happening at the end of this week. energy companies have been pushing today saying they need to have more from the government, more commitments from the government to say what they will do to help customers during the course of this winter. ., ., , ., ~ , ., in two weeks time whoever is the next prime minister will be having to deal with strikes and the cost of living crisis. tory leadership contender rishi sunak says his rival liz truss cannot afford both tax cuts and more cost of living help for households. he says it would risk putting the public finances into serious jeopardy . our political correspondent ione wellsjoins me. ione, more scrutiny then for liz truss economic policies.