committees in the us house of representatives. mr santos has faced calls to resign for repeatedly lying about his family background and work experience. he will however continue to participate in proceedings on the floor of the house. now on bbc news, new hope in hard times: fighting the cost of living crisis. you want a piggyback? are you going to be superman, are you? nobody can afford to keep up with anything. i don t know how i ll cope, i really don t. it s autumn 2022, and anita s got troubles. troubles from every direction. absolutely shattered. i m constantlyjust lying in bed and just thinking about how am i going to pay this? how am i going to pay that? i m trying to make you a den. money is beyond tight. try that, brett. for little brett and his two older sisters, the outside world can feel scary. there s a monster out there. what monster? a huge one. a huge one? oh my goodness. for his mum, the monsters are getting real. i ve always managed with the money i get, me
every time i shut my eyes. ..i try and tell myself. that s not the last image that i ve got of him. right, i think it s in here. yeah, here we are. hope rescue. hello. hi. i m sam from the bbc. i m here for vanessa. this rescue centre in wales is at the sharp end of the dog trade, caring for abused and abandoned dogs. dogs like keanu, an american bully. oh, my goodness! ..one of the new extreme mixed breed bulldogs becoming more and more popular. it s as though his legs are on back to front. who thinks, i know let s breed a dog whose legs are round the wrong way ? who does that? there are no surgical options for him. the vets have said, there s nothing we can do about that. how old is he? he s eight months old. he s only eight months? butjust look how big he is. look how thickset he is. this is torture. you know what these dogs are going to look like, but you re still breeding them, trying to get more and more exaggerated features. i mean, it looks painful when he s ben
this is the first time i ve actually had to say, can you help us? tough times. but as we ll see, there s also hope and help. there s a lot to go through today. in a cold church in benwell, carole rowland is on the mic. it s worry and fear. anything that worries you, anything you re fearful of, please come and talk to us. if the cost of living crisis is a national crisis, the response here in newcastle s west end is local. the other things that we ve got are more kiddies coats, which is fantastic. this place started years ago as a food bank, but it s had to change, adapt and expand to become a community hub to keep up in these hard times. used to be that people don t have sufficient food to eat. we can help them with that. it s now that they don t have enough fuel. they don t have heat. our fear here at our food bank is that people may die. it s getting a bit colder. it is slightly. so it is food and help with fuel. but we re here to see much more than that. there you go. of c