economic direction, the biggest tax cuts and a half a century in a bid to kickstart growth. and the first woman to win back the booker prize twice, the celebrated author dame hilary mantell dies at the age of 70. welcome to bbc news. the g7, the group of seven wealthiest nations, have condemned the referendums being held in parts of ukraine to decide whether they want to join russia. it added the votes, which are being organised by moscow backed officials, are a breach of the united nations charter. these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east, and zaporizhzhia and kherson, in the south, and cover around 15 per cent of ukraine s territory. voting is expected to run until tuesday, and the result seems almost certain to go in moscow s favour. these pictures, filmed in russian occupied donetsk, show representatives taking polling cards to people in their own homes. here, at least, it is not a secret ballot. m
who are using the power of boxing to help improve the lives of people with parkinson s. good afternoon. the government has defended its sweeping range of tax cuts from criticism that they favour the better off. the chancellor kwasi kwarteng s package of measures include scrapping the top rate of income tax for the highest earners and reducing the basic rate by a penny moves the government says will promote growth. the institute for fiscal studies says the richest who pay the most tax will benefit most from a cut. our political correspondent, helen catt, reports. it s an all out attempt to grow the economy with the biggest tax cuts in four decades. at spitalfields market, in east london, they are taking stock of a mini budget that s signalled a massive shift in political direction. what do you make of moves like reversing the national insurance rise? will that help, do you think? i think it probably will help, yes, to a degree, but it depends what bracket you are in in t
people, grow for everyone everywhere, wherever they are. a fairer, greenerfuture. the home secretary tells police chiefs that common sense policing must take priority over diversity and inclusion initiatives as she sets out her the priorities of her crime cutting agenda. the government has defended its sweeping range of tax cuts from criticism that they favour the better off. the chancellor kwasi kwarteng s package of measures include scrapping the top rate of income tax for the highest earners and reducing the basic rate by a penny moves the government say will promote growth. the institute for fiscal studies says the richest who pay the most tax will benefit most. our political correspondent, helen catt, reports. it s an all out attempt to grow the economy with the biggest tax cuts in four decades. at spitalfields market, in east london, they are taking stock of a mini budget that s signalled a massive shift in political direction. what do you make of moves like rev
next several hours. now the island of taiwan says they re on high alert for a possible incoming from china. china telling its troops stand by in battle formation and be ready for all incoming enemies. listen to this warning from china to speaker pelosi. if house speaker pelosi insists on visiting taiwan, we will defend our territorial integrity. as to what measures we ll make, we ll see if she dares making a visit. martha: john kirby joins me now off of a very active news conference that went on for quite a while. john, welcome. good to have you with us today. good to be with you. martha: sounds like you re saying nothing to see here. nothing has changed. everything is fine. the drama is coming from the media. you have to realize that we ve sent the seventh fleet in there and the ronald reagan. things have escalated and it s coming from china. and their war of words more than anything else. we re not believing this on the media or saying there s nothing to see. ther
we are getting a clearer picture now about the unstructured raid on mar-a-lago. including on the first ladies and we begin with primary month less than a few months away in november. bret baier is joining us now. good evening. good evening, shannon. you mentioned a governors race there with the trump candidate against the candidate who was endorsed by former vice president mike pence. she did pull off a win in milwaukee county, which was the rest of the state, however, that really backed michael s. and that s setting up a battle between michael s and the incumbent governor. senate side, the surprise, ron johnson wins trying to get reelection there and on the democratic side going away is barnes, that will be an interesting race for the senate. now in vermont we ve got peter welch, the congressman there, this is the heat that patrick leahy, the longest-serving senator is retiring. welsh winning this and jordan maloley winning this over the former u.s. attorney, nolan. an