conservative cabinet minister justine greening and ron christie former adviser to george w bush. welcome to the programme. it has been a fractious few days, nato allies openly criticising the decisions in berlin, the german chancellor refusing to send his tanks, unless the united states also had skin in the game. but out of delay and a whole lot of diplomatic wrangling, has come a momentous decision. nearly 100 nato tanks, will be sent in the coming month to the front line and the border with russia a move that was unthinkable months ago. we will provide battle tanks to ukraine, the leopard two. this is the result of intensive consultations with our allies and international partners. i want to stress that it is right that we did not allow anyone to pressure us but that instead we relied on close cooperation on the special issue and we will continue to do so. the americans took some convincing. the abrams while readily available, will take longer to ship, they are more compl
right thing to do, and the right thing for the country to help it beat inflation. arrests continue in afghanistan as protests persist against the new ban by the taliban on women and girls attending universities. police in pakistan say at least two people, including a police officer, have been killed in a suicide blast in the capital, islamabad. china insists it has its current covid outbreak under control reporting fewer than 4,000 new cases and no deaths for the third day running. but forecasters warn the true number could be as much asi million, with 5,000 deaths a day. a fierce arctic winter storm has triggered emergency alerts across large parts of the united states, and forced the cancellation of more than 2,000 flights. forecasters say the cold snap could bring the coldest christmas in decades. presidentjoe biden has encouraged everyone to heed warnings and bring forward christmas travel plans where possible. 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes reports. this is
Also talking about Energy Policy with a promise to eliminate carbon from Energy Production and illiteracy production in the uk, focusing solely on Renewable Energy and nuclear by 2030, which would involve increasing vastly the capacity of offshore wind, onshore wind, solar power, hydrogen and tidal power as well. That was described this morning as an ambition by sir keir starmer. They have not set out in huge detail exactly how they would do it, but it goes further and faster than the governments own It Commitment to eliminate carbon from Energy Production in the uk by five years after that date, 2035, is what liz truss has set out. But the focus this morning here in at liverpool on the Deputy Leader of the labour party angela rayner, who will speak to delicates in the hall shortly, that marks at the conference getting properly under way. Last night to sir keir starmer was addressing a rally, choosing his words very carefully about the governments economic policy, and then singing the
week for big tech. plus a pre halloween treat as the us economy returns to growth. but inflation s still a nightmare for president biden with midterm elections looming. we start with the world s richest man: billionaire boss of tesla space entrepreneur and now the new owner of twitter. elon musk has now closed his $41; billion takeover of the social media giant ahead of a 5pm deadline set by a us court. and he has moved quickly to sack the company s senior management. it brings to an end a six month long and often bad tempered takeover battle that has raised some big questions about the future of the company. from san francisco here s our technology correspondent james clayton. when elon musk had an offer to buy a twitter accepted in april, he could barely conceal his excitement. but that initial enthusiasm soon began to wane. tech stocks were plummeting and many wondered whether he d paid too much for twitter. mr musk also claimed that twitter was filled with fake
growth plan is the t s headline. cuts warning as sunak rips up truss growth plan is the is headline. the financial times covers the delay in the halloween fiscal event. the debt cutting plan will now take place on 17th november. the telegraph features the pm at the despatch box under the headline sunak reconsiders tax rises as budget delay saves £15 billion . the guardian focusses on mr sunak s fracking ban reversal in england. it also has pictures of protests in iran following mahsa amini s death a0 days ago. the express accuses rishi sunak of torturing pensioners. it asks do you really want to scrap pension triple again? the daily mail reports on 38,000 people crossing the english channel this year describing the migrant crisis as a headache for the new premier. the times quotes rishi sunak declaring a radical set of reforms to the nations education system and transform vocational training. the metro carries criticism of the foreign secretary james cleverly, af