the lead starts right now. a critical vote possibly just minutes away as speaker mccarthy pushes house republicans to sign off on his debt limit plan. i ll speak on one holdout about the offers. clemency request denied. a parole board votes against sparing the life of kdeath row inmate in oklahoma. plus, disney versusdy san tis. the major new lawsuit accusing the florida governor of weaponizing his political power. everyone. i m in for jake tapper today. we start with our politics lead. do they have the votes? right now, house republicans are in the middle of last-minute negotiations as house speaker kevin mccarthy tries to get his party s debt ceiling plan across the finish line. we expect that vote to start in minutes. he had zero democratic support, and he can only lose four republicans, a narrow margin that forced him to make some 11th hour concessions. but even if he can get this bill across that finish line, it is dead on arrival in the democrat controlled senate
Those of the headlines. Those are the headlines. Hello and a warm welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the broadcaster and journalist james lewer, and kate maltby, columnist for the i. Welcome back to both of you. Weve got a few more front pages. The guardian leads with a stark warning from Health Experts who say that children may die if families turn off heat because of soaring energy bills this winter. The i also leads on energy and the conservative leadership race, saying that the front runner liz truss is under pressure to deliver immediate help for households and small businesses. Truss hints she may axe motorway speed limits, is the daily telegraphs headline referring to comments made by the Foreign Secretary at the final Tory Hustings held in london a few hours ago. The times top story is a rise in lone parenting, as a Study Reveals nearly half of british children grow up outside the traditional two parent household. The ft leads
Leader of the soviet union. And we talk to the child refugee from ghana whos now at the summit of britains fashion journalism. Hello and welcome to the programme. Russia has been accused of Shelling A Town near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear power plant in ukraine, where a team from the Un Nuclear Watchdog is expected on thursday. The plant, which was taken by Russia In March sits on the banks of the dnieper river, 200 kilometres from crimea, which it annexed in 2014. Our correspondent James Waterhouse has the latest from kyiv. The chances of International Inspectors making it to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear power plant were once remote. They are now looking a lot more promising or probable. At the moment, they are in the city of zaporizhzhia, a good hour and a half from the plant itself, but there are still bends in the road. Moscow installed Officials Say they dont yet have the right permissions to make it through their own military checkpoints. In their words, they will have to get in the que
are struggling around the globe and russia is already getting a billion dollars every few days in oil and gas revenues, why did opec slash production? everything has a price. we will explain. but first, here s my take. one of the few issues on which there is a consensus in washington, d.c. is that american policy toward china was built on an intellectual tariff. liberals and conservatives both believe that beijing s embrace of free markets and integration with the global market would fundamentally change china. but they didn t, so the consensus goes, we should recognize this was a naive belief. in fact, viewing china on the eve of the 20th party congress, i m struck by how little that line of analysis captures what has happened in china over the last decade. china has gone through profound economic and social changes. its per capita gdp has gone up almost 30 fold since the start of economic liberalization in 1978. mass education and urbanization have changed the face of