ago and that of cast an election is frankly very rail. let s discuss all of this with our political panel. karen finney great. great to have all be with us tonight. and there s so much to talk about in terms of the chaos that could happen with the midterms. let s start with election deniers. so, as you know, the place allows you with them right now. particularly places like arizona. then, today, ted cruz went on the view and could not answer the question as to whether or not he basically joe biden was legitimately elected. he pivoted, carrying the city, because it s the new talking point that i hear all the time now from republicans. when they get uncomfortable about the election denying. they pivot, immediately, to the past. so let s listen to this. what is biden legitimate elected because half the party thinks that he wasn t and will be very painful for you to tell the truth? biden is the president today. there is a lot of folks in the media that, i m exactly as a
the #bbcyourquestions no outright winner in the brazilian election left wing candidate luiz inacio lula da silva and right wingerjair bolsonaro will go to a second round run off. an investigation s underway after at least 125 were killed in a crush at a football match in indonesia one of the world s worst stadium disasters. the king and queen consort will undertake their firstjoint public engagements today since the end of the period of royal mourning for the queen. and, meet mr doodle the man from kent who makes his living from doodling and has covered his whole house in drawings. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the government has this morning performed a huge u turn and abandoned its plan to scrap the 45 pence top rate of income tax. the announcement, from chancellor kwasi kwarteng , came just a day after the prime minister liz truss backed the policy. in a statement, mr kwarteng said the 45p tax plan had become a huge distract
Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. Scotlands First Minister humza yousaf resigns , throwing the future of the Scottish Nationalist Government into doubt. Lets focus on that for a 2nd. Humza yousaf standing guard today, announcing just over a year after he was elected. The Scotish National Party now facing its second leadership crisis in 18 months. Asking the snp secretary to begin the process of selecting a new leader as soon as possible. He will remain imposed until that successor is elected to ensure a smooth, orderly transition. 1 a smooth, orderly transition. I am not willing a smooth, orderly transition. I am not willing to a smooth, orderly transition. I am not willing to trade a smooth, orderly transition. I am not willing to trade my a smooth, orderly transition. I h not willing to trade my values and principles or do deals with whom ever simply for attaining power. Therefore, after spending the weekend reflecting on what is best for my party, f
have free and fair elections. then on the other side he will likely come out and say as long as he was elected, what is the strategy behind that? do you think that voters will think that they like this pivot. it works. from me it can t possibly. our politics but policy wasn t her what it wants to hear. the right once a what it wants to. here and there s nowhere in the middle as the moderate situation. but with the truth is that really satisfies. so, this shouldn t be hard. you can say, very easily, but donald trump was about 16. joe biden won fair and square in 2020. and i m gonna work every day to defeat joe biden, or whomever runs in 2024. and your base can respond to that. the politicians need to be leaders and take their base to that place of truth. where you can then be the fighter you claim to be. the analogies with hillary clinton is a crazy one. she went to the inauguration,
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the government has this morning performed a huge u turn and abandoned its plan to scrap the 45 pence top rate of income tax. the announcement, from chancellor kwasi kwarteng , came just a day after the prime minister liz truss backed the policy. in a statement, mr kwarteng said the 45p tax plan had become a huge distraction and that the government had listened to people s concerns. just yesterday, the prime minister agreed she was absolutely committed to the policy and said she would not abandon it. those earning more than 150 thousand pounds a year would have benefitted most, which a number of conservative mps had suggested would have been rejected when the policy came to a vote in the house of commons. in the market reaction to the u turn, the pound jumped by more than a cent against the dollar. government borrowing costs also fell slightly to trade at around the level they were before