rishi sunak officiallyjoins the race to be the next conservative leader and prime minister, this afternoon culture secretary michelle donelan has gone public with her support for him. penny mordaunt is still in the running. she told the bbc she believes in cabinet led politics. i have my views but i will not be imposing i have my views but i will not be imposing policy that i have just made imposing policy that i have just made up imposing policy that i have just made up in a room by myself. the question now does borisjohnson have enough backers to stand as well? labour leader kier starmer says his party hasn t got complacent and repeats calls for a general election. the schools struggling to keep the lights and heating on headteachers warn spiralling energy costs could see most schools in england run out of money next year. and jodie whittaker is set to make her final appearance as the doctor. more headlines at six o clock. now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn
of the moment. this week, britain s political and economic crisis entered a new and even more difficult phase, and so did the war in ukraine. all of this has rather overshadowed the already slightly muted celebration of the bbc s 100th anniversary, which falls this week. in october 1922 the bbc started up, and quite soon became the world s most famous and respected public service broadcaster operating from its headquarters here in central london. and london is where our programme starts this week with the extraordinary political and economic goings on. pretty much unprecedented in my experience. that the whole sort of faith in the system, the trust, the engagement has sort of broken down and may in fact get worse. will president putin s new commander in the ukraine war, nicknamed general armageddon, change the way the war is being fought? i don t think i ve seen anyone at all who said that we re being killed. let s give up. on the contrary, we re being killed. let s fight
a russian politician publicly calling for putin to resign. as dissent in russia appears to grow over its failures in ukraine. a municipal leader in st. petersburg spoke to me moments after leaving court today just after he paid a fine for speaking out against putin. in his first television interview, he was unafraid. he doubled down on his call for putin to step down. translator: we will continue to insist on his resignation. perhaps our words about putin have a harmful effect on russia, and the need to leave power will continue to spread. i said it s extraordinary, right? when he went to pay a fine and it could get a lot worse than that. he came out, and he doubled down. so i asked him, why is he speaking out right now? taking these incredible risks. and here is what he told me. translator: i have two little children. i don t want for them to go through what i am going through in 15, 20 years, namely, to be afraid of going out on the streets to speak their minds at dem
to disqualify him from holding public office on charges of unlawfully selling state gifts. at ten o clock we will be here with a full round up of the days news. first unspun world withjohn simpson. hello and welcome to unspun world, the programme where the bbc s experts give us clear answers about the big questions of the moment. this week, britain s political and economic crisis entered a new and even more difficult phase, and so did the war in ukraine. all of this has rather overshadowed the already slightly muted celebration of the bbc s 100th anniversary, which falls this week. in october 1922, the bbc started up and quite soon became the world s most famous and respected public service broadcaster operating from its headquarters here in central london. and london is where our programme starts this week with the extraordinary political and economic goings on. pretty much unprecedented in my experience. that the whole sort of faith in the system, the trust, the engagemen
left banded. for weeks, ukraine have been publicly hinting about a counter offensive in the south. apparently planned for their independence day late last month. but it appears that the russians may have been duped by abatements which. which, for this major push in the northeast. the numbers are hard to verify. but in less than two weeks. russia may have suffered one of its biggest losses of the war so far. here s a ukrainian president speaking on monday. since the start of september, our soldiers have already liberated 6000 square kilometers of ukrainian territory in the east and south. and we are moving further. a russian graduate though, has been followed by airstrikes. targeting civilian infrastructure in the kharkiv region. ukrainian gains have been so significant, even for russians had to own their losses as well as a major retreat. cnn s melissa bell and her crew, gain access to newly made areas in northeast. and reported that the battle is still going on with an e