of repairing the damage. also in the programme. in beijing the chinese communist party congress continues but some parts of the city are back under a covid lockdown. and, a jury in new york clears the actor, kevin spacey, of making unwanted sexual advances on a iii year old. hello and welcome to the programme. britain is set to get a new prime minister by the end of next week, after the conservative party announced details of a fast tracked contest to choose its leader following liz truss s resignation. she stepped down afterjust six chaotic weeks in the job by far the shortest tenure in british history. her leadership foundered when the markets took fright, the pound crashed, she sacked her chancellor kwasi kwarteng and was forced into a humiliating series of u turns. we start our coverage with the bbc s political editor chris mason. lunchtime in downing street and the lectern is back. six weeks and two days since liz truss stood behind it as she became prime minister,
2022, the year of three prime ministers, at least. after an astonishing decade in british politics, another unprecedented moment. is politics, another unprecedented moment. , , ., moment. is the news came in we asked voters for there s moment. is the news came in we asked voters for there s impressions - moment. is the news came in we asked voters for there s impressions of - voters for there s impressions of the latest events at westminster. itjust needs stabilising, it needs sorting out and moving forward. i wouldn t vote conservative now, no. why not? because i don t feel we can trust them. the likely candidates include some very familiar faces, but labour says yet another change of prime minister should trigger a general election. the public are entitled to have their say, and that s why there should be a general election. we ll have all the news and analysis of the prime minister s resignation. also on this extended edition of bbc news at ten. people who work with chil
news. liz truss has resigned after 44 days in office, making her the shortest serving prime minister in british history. christiane amanpour and correspondent bianca noble joins us from london. she delivered a short resignation speech stating i cannot deliver on the mandate on which i was elected. yes. she s suffered the inignominy of serving as prime minister. it was an appropriately short speech because, of course, she double have a legacy to speak of. she pointed to two economic measuresing but basically her entire premiership has voichbled controversy, taking policies too far, and not taking control of her party. let s take a listen to the moment she talks about how she finds herself. we set out for a low tax, high grade communicate that would take advantage of the freedoms of brexit. i recognize, though, given the situation, i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative party. reporter: bianna, this has been a bruising week for a prime min
was elected by the conservative party. i have spoken to his majesty the king to notify him thati i m resigning as leader of the conservative party. it was just yesterday that truss fiercely declared before parliament that she was, quote, a fighter, not a quitter. but the reaction and the fallout from her government s handling of the current economic and energy crisis in the u.k. clearly forced her hand. truss will now be the shortest serving prime minister in british history. let s get straight over to scott mcclain. he s outside of the prime minister s residence in london. so, scott, what now? reporter: if you ask the opposition labor party, there ought to be a general election but the conservative party has zero incentive to actually call a general election. because if you consult the polls, you will find that the conservative party were an election be held today would be absolutely trounced by the labor party. labor likely getting twice or por than twice the share of t
the high light, how is this structural law helping to build back. we go to philadelphia for a closed door fund-raiser with the democratic senator nominee john fetterman. another trip to pennsylvania is a reminder the president is simply not welcome by many across the country, and the president is skipping traditional campaign rallies, choosing instead to mostly hold low key events on administrative policy wins. when asked why he s not out on the campaign trail, he insists he is. there hasn t been that many candidates campaigning with you. that s not true. there ve been 15. count. let s get straight to mj lee. she s live from pittsburgh. what are we hearing from the president? reporter: well, john, you will recall it was back in january the president was supposed to visit pittsburgh, an literally hours before that it was behind me where he was standing but fortunately nobody was killed at the time, but the timing of it is really incredibly coincidental because the occ