another u turn? the british prime minister insists she won t cut public spending, to pay for her multibillion pound package of tax cuts. and the us leads western countries in promising more weapons for ukraine, including air defence systems. we will do everything we can as fast as we can to help the ukrainian forces get the capability they need to protect the ukrainian people. and scientists in australia teach lab grown brain cells to play an iconic video game. we find out how and why. live from our studio in singapore. hello and welcome to the programme. ajury in the us has ordered the conspiracy theorist alexjones to pay $965 million in damages to the families of victims of the sandy hook massacre. mrjones falsely claimed for years that the mass shooting had been staged by the government to try to introduce tighter gun controls. the school principal was among the 26 people killed in the attack in 2012. a little earlier our correspondent, gary o donoghue told me why alexjone
on defending this madness and go ahead with her kamikaze budget? as liz truss arrived for her weekly audience with the king tonight, the king greeted her with dear oh dear . we ll have the latest on the talks in washington and the questions raised by the prime minister s words today. also tonight. a court is told that a nurse accused of the murder of seven babies sent a sympathy card to the parents of one of her victims. blood supplies in england are at a critically low level the nhs says that staffing shortages are mainly to blame. and in tonight s football, salah scores the fastest hat trick in champions league history as liverpool crush rangers at ibrox. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. one of english rugby s most famous names is suspended from the premiership wasps on the verge of administration. good evening. the prime minister has insisted she will not cut public spending to pay for a multi billion pound package of tax cuts. experts say the impl
alexjones to pay $965 million to the families of the victims of the sandy hook massacre. and in china, where the country s ruling communist party gathers for its annual congress, we ll look at whose likely to become xijinping s second in command. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s six in the morning in singapore and 11 in the evening in london, where the government is battling new economic uncertainty. prime minister liz truss has told mps her strategy of cutting tax will not change. but she s also said she won t cut spending either, suggesting the government will have to borrow more. that s raised concern even among her own mps. some want her to rethink tax cuts to reassure the markets. our political editor, chris mason, reports. reporter: have you wrecked the economy, prime minister? - there are plenty of questions for liz truss at the moment, but that one gets to the crux of things. spiralling prices, interest rates climbing, the market
and the us leads western countries in promising more weapons for ukraine, including air defence systems. we re going to do everything we can, as fast as we can, to help the ukrainian forces get the capability they need to protect the ukrainian people. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. i want to bring you some news that s just come through in the last hour from the us, where a usjury in connecticut has ruled that the conspiracy theorist alexjones must payjust shy of $1 billion in damages to the families of those killed in the 2012 sandy hook mass shooting. mrjones falsely claimed for years that the mass shooting had been staged by the government to try to introduce tighter gun controls. the school principal was among the 26 people killed in the attacked in 2012. a little earlier, our correspondent gary 0 donoghue told me why alexjones has been held accountable. really, from when it actually happened, alexjones, on his info wars channels, reachi
will because it is not an easy decision. it is about transforming the way we live to having systemic changes in our systems and our economies. mige systems and our economies. wise words there systems and our economies. wise words there from systems and our economies. wise words there from the systems and our economies. wise words there from the deputy global conservation director for wwf international who spoke to us earlier on the programme. to the uk now, where the government is battling fresh economic uncertainty. prime minister liz truss has told mps her strategy of cutting tax will not change. but she s also said she won t cut spending either suggesting the government will have to borrow more. that s raised concern even among her own mps as our political editor chris mason reports. reporter: have you wrecked | the economy, prime minister? there are plenty of questions for liz truss at the moment, but that one gets to the crux of things. spiralling prices, interest rates cl