near the capital kyiv. concern over the whereabouts of an iranian climber who disappeared after not wearing a headscarf. france prepares for widespread disruption as oil industry workers and transport staff go on strike in a dispute over pay. the uk government are seeking to change the law to prevent their military pilots from training the chinese armed force. up to 30 former uk military pilots are thought to have gone to train members of china s people s liberation army in exchange for large sums of money. and. a happy birthday to the bbc! it s 100 years old today making it the world s longest running national broadcasting organization. hello and welcome to viewers in the uk and around the world. liz truss says she will not be stepping down as prime minister, despite her premiership hanging by a thread after her new finance minister ditched most of her economic policies. in an interview with the bbc, ms truss apologised for what she called mistakes over the past six we
ukraine. it makes sense to focus money on those least able to pay the increase in at the cost of fuel. i think that makes a great deal of sense because we want to help those who are vulnerable, but we also to make sure you are not spending taxpayers money unnecessarily, money that would have to be borrowed and paid back. itruihat money that would have to be borrowed and paid back- and paid back. what you think is the calculation amongst and paid back. what you think is the calculation amongst conservative i and paid back. what you think is the i calculation amongst conservative mps today? james heappey was doing the round of interviews this morning, and he said there were a small number who were irreconcilable to the idea of liz truss being prime minister at this point. clearly that there are a larger number concerned about where her leadership goes. as the calculation looking at the opinion polls, the latest one saying that labour would have a 36 point lead in the next general ele
and the fact that many of her campaign pledges shredded byjeremy hunt yesterday. she will give the impression of business this usual, meeting the cabinet this morning, but cabinet ministers think we are listening more closely tojeremy listening more closely to jeremy hunt than liz truss because he will be setting out some of the eye watering the difficult decisions he was talking about yesterday to the cabinet members, effectively calling for them to look at the departments and think about making spending cuts. we will get his, if you like, to factor budget on halloween come october to 31st, i don t there is a feeling amongst conservative mps that we ought to see what that looks like i think there is. liz truss can perhaps breathed a sigh of relief until that time. there are other obstacles between now and then she will have to overcome. she will have to overcome. labour and other opposition she will have to overcome. labour and other opposition parties - she will have to overcom
actually deliver that and i think it s that fear of an early general election that is helping keep less trust place place amongst conservative mps giving the pollen deficit liz truss. it is prime minister s questions, and diff cure stomach is therapeutically hard time in points out that many of the campaign pledges have been shredded, talks about the political repetition, how she deals with it will be crucial to longevity. if you look so she not handling it well some conservative mps do we want to see this on repeat every week? at what point is that balance of risk change, which is more risky leadership contest? she is due to me again with the chairman of the backbench, 1922 committee, that run leadership elections. i think they will be effectively taking soundings amongst backbench mps about how she prefers tomorrow. nothing is inevitable in politics, it has been a surprising thing for all of us, she could leave the conceptus into the next general election, she could possibly not e
of this truss s economic policies were correct. ~. , ,., ., were correct. maybe something for the -a were correct. maybe something for the party to were correct. maybe something for the party to reflect were correct. maybe something for the party to reflect on were correct. maybe something for the party to reflect on while - were correct. maybe something for the party to reflect on while mps i the party to reflect on while mps reflect on choosing a man in terms of his popularity with party members probably didn t have a chance of making through the final two. i think there are a lot of questions going around at the moment about how the party elects its leader is, and some mps want to remove members entirely when we are in power. that would not go down well with party members who are obviously the backbone of our entire containing team. it is all a bit of a mess, unfortunately. we had been left with a leader who then please don t really want and members aren t happy with. really