seems like you re making a fashion statement. it says vote, doesn t say who. if you get me that item i ll find a civic way to rock it. nobody rocks it like. you see you tonight. nicole and i will be out there with the rest of the team. it is election eve here on the beat as well. campaign guru james carville kicking off the show. we have the music. you hear that. we have the legend. always dressed for television. see you in a second. and we have the final numbers heading into the election day. democrats are catching up with republicans in enthusiasm. that s from the nbc poll. the fact is, 2 22 midterms now have surging turnout. in the last midterms the energized 2018 on trump there was a record turnout of 38 million votes. that is now topped by this final re-election set of numbers. over 42 million people already voting. 38 million was the record work 4 million more. the new record is 42 million. that is more m s, to quote the new drake album. candidates are hop
also on the show, as global leaders meet in egypt for the cop27 summit on the environment, what are the stakes for one of the most beautiful places on earth? i m going to be asking the big boss of the caribbean development bank, dr gene leon. wherever you rejoining me from around the world, a power grab at the top of china s communist party has big consequences for the global economy. yet with war raging in europe, a cost of living crisis, surging interest rates and a global energy crisis, china s president xijinping s consolidation of power at the communist party s 20th congress could easily get a bit lost amidst the noise. but china s critical place in the global supply chain, in world politics, in manufacturing and exporting and its growing power as a consumer and tourist powerhouse means that these changes are incredibly significant for the way the world s economy is going to develop in the next few years. so with the benefit of a few weeks perspective, let sjust take a
of widespread unrest. taiwan s president tsai ing wen has pledged to bolster the island s combat power and defences in a major speech on taiwan s national day. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. there is one question which haunts the chancellor, haunts any chancellor of any political party stopping it is, what will the iss say? because the verdict of the institute for fiscal studies on whether the numbers add up, any budget or what we these days have to call fiscal event can be devastating for a politician. that verdict is treated like the word of god, not least by broadcasters like the bbc who have experts from the iss on our programmes all the time. our guest is the director of the institute for fiscal studies, the ifs, paul johnston, welcome to political thinking. if the ifs is the word of god, that makes you got. how does that feel? very stran . e! got. how does that feel? very strange! the got. how does that
the bbc chairman s appointment. at an emotional meeting in new zealand, jacinda ardern hands over the leadership of her party and country to chris hipkins. the uk business secretary urges energy suppliers to stop moving vulnerable customers onto more expensive prepayment metres. millions around the world gather to celebrate the lunar new year. in china the tradition of giving remains strong. you re watching bbc news. now its time for global questions. welcome to global questions with me, zeinab badawi, from sri lanka s capital, colombo. i m on one of the city s beautiful waterfronts along the indian ocean. sri lanka s stunning coastline makes it popular with visitors, but this country, like many others in the region, suffers from extreme weather conditions heatwaves followed by torrential rain and rising sea levels. so, we re asking is sri lanka something of a test case of what and what not to do in combating environment challenges? and will the historic cop27 agreeme
of the institute for fiscal studies on whether the numbers add up, in any budget, or what these days we have to call fiscal event, can be devastating for a politician. that verdict is treated like the word of god, not least by broadcasters like the bbc who have experts from the ifs on our programmes all the time. my guest this week is the director of the ifs, pauljohnson. welcome to the programme. if the ifs is the word of god, that makes you god. how does that feel? very strange. he chuckles all we are, as it were, we are a research institute who happen to work on fiscal things, which means public spending and tax, and when the government or the opposition make big announcements on tax and spending, we analyse it and we analyse it off the back of decades of experience we ve got. with the numbers, with understanding of what this stuff means. so we are able to say, do these add up? will it achieve what the chancellor says it will achieve? and what are the risks? when martin le