good morning, and we begin this morning with a fox weather alert. severe storms again threatening parts of the south, already devastated by the deadly tornado outbreak over the weekend. at least 26 people are confirmed dead. and several towns have been left in ruins. brian: unbelievable. robert ray leads our coverage today with the latest. he is on the ground in mississippi. robert? yeah. good morning to you. yet, another morning of absolute devastation here in the mississippi delta in this town of just less than 2,000 people the majority of the deaths have occurred here in mississippi, a total of 25 people have lost their lives. one person in alabama. and you just see parts of homes, this chair, unfortunately, lie on the slab, a huge wooden beam that held up part of the home behind me. governor tate reeves yesterday spoke to the media, toured all of this with fema administrator. and others and let s listen to what he had to say about how is he going to help his com
after a drop off in donations as the cost of living crisis bites. and the british built space rover looking for work after its mission to mars was cancelled. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister has refused to rule out a real terms cut in benefits despite growing pressure to do so. liz truss faces a fresh battle with some conservative mps who want her to promise welfare payments will rise in line with inflation rather than earnings a lower percentage figure that would save the government billions of pounds. there s already a cabinet split on the issue. the leader of the commons penny morduant has openly demanded that benefits do go up in line with prices. this morning the prime minister told the bbc she would still like to see the rate of tax paid by the highest earners to be lower, despite ditching her plan to do just that only yesterday. iain watson reports from the conservative party conference. it s tin hat time for liz truss. she and her chancel
more surplus food to those in need after a drop off in donations as the cost of living crisis bites. and the british built space rover looking for work after its mission to mars was cancelled. good afternoon. the prime minister has refused to rule out a real terms cut in benefits, despite growing pressure to do so. liz truss faces a fresh battle with some conservative mps who want her to promise welfare payments will rise in line with inflation rather than earnings a lower percentage figure that would save the government billions of pounds. there s already a cabinet split on the issue the leader of the commons, penny morduant, has openly demanded that benefits do go up in line with prices. this morning, the prime minister told the bbc she would still like to see the rate of tax paid by the highest earners to be lower, despite ditching her plan to do just that only yesterday. iain watson reports from the conservative party conference. it s tin hat time for liz truss. she a
domestic news channel broadcasting within the uk and an international news channel which has been broadcasting to audiences around the world. made the decision to merge those into one single news channel and when that was made, fewer presenters were needed so existing news presenters like the four female presenters mentions, along with many others, are invited to apply to reduce the number of presented jobs. none of the four women in the tribune today got any of those jobs as part of that process and a flawed process, a wrecked process where things were predetermined from the start. they say there are also discriminated against on the grounds of age, sex and so are bringing pay action against the bbc. they say they were discriminated against on they were discriminated against on the grounds of sex because they work women aged in their late 40s to their late 50s. they say they lost out on these presenter roles. they say they later learned that other presenters had been given a
the best thing since sliced bread! palab ghosh, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here s darren bett. good afternoon. most of the mistiness this morning is lifted but across some parts of eastern scotland it is still quite great and cool scotland it is still quite great and cool. if you have the sunshine it is feeling quite warm with temperatures at 20 degrees across east anglia. there are still some cloud around producing some showers and we have thick cloud moving up from france that eventually will bring some rain. that is heading into eastern scotland bringing some showers. but across southern parts of england in the midlands we start to see the rain gathering and that develops a little more widely this evening moving into wales and affecting northern ireland for a while. then some real downpours later on in the south. further north any cloud developing more widely overnight. some lively weather by the early hours of the morning across southern england and south w