we start here in the uk, where as you have been hearing the pressure on prime minister liz truss is building after another day of political chaos. the exit of a key cabinet member, home secretary suella braverman, who delivered a blistering attack on her former boss in her resignation letter. then a huge row in the house of commons over a vote on fracking, seen as a test of loyalty to the prime minister. it saw the pound fall sharply on wednesday, wiping out all the gains made this week after liz truss replaced her chancellor and abandoned the tax cutting plans that had rattled the markets. our political editor chris mason was following events. conservative mps are openmouthed in horror at what they are witnessing, government six week old histjunked the majority of its programme and removed a chancellor in a day of complete chaos, at lunchtime a senior adviser to the prime minister suspended over allegations of briefing against conservative mps, after prime minister s questi
near the capital kyiv. concern over the whereabouts of an iranian climber who disappeared after not wearing a headscarf. france prepares for widespread disruption as oil industry workers and transport staff go on strike in a dispute over pay. the uk government are seeking to change the law to prevent their military pilots from training the chinese armed force. up to 30 former uk military pilots are thought to have gone to train members of china s people s liberation army in exchange for large sums of money. and. a happy birthday to the bbc! it s 100 years old today making it the world s longest running national broadcasting organization. hello and welcome to viewers in the uk and around the world. liz truss says she will not be stepping down as prime minister, despite her premiership hanging by a thread after her new finance minister ditched most of her economic policies. in an interview with the bbc, ms truss apologised for what she called mistakes over the past six we
it has a systemic racial bias and misses repeat offenders. one officer had 11 complaints against him, from assault to abuse to sexual harassment. he s still in the met. parm sandhu was a chief superintendent. black and asian officers are 80% more likely to be accused of misconduct. she was one and sued for discrimination. i absolutely was targeted because of my racial background. and the fact that i had raised a misconduct issue many years before against another senior officer. and because of that, you then become targeted yourself, you become ostracised. when two police officers take photos with the dead bodies of murdered sisters nicole smallman and biba henry, then share them with colleagues, it is clear too many unsuitable officers have been allowed to stay. it is time now for change. we need that because when we are in trouble, the only people we can call are the police. and if you are not sure that they are going to be honest and true, we are all left in a terrible stat
highs reaching around 18 or 19 degrees across parts of the south of the uk. very mild for the time of year. and that s bbc news at ten on monday the 17th of october. stay with us here on the bbc news channel [i continuing coverage and analysis from our team of correspondents in the uk and around the world. you re watching bbc news i m james reynolds. more now on the news that prime minister says she is sorry and accepts responsibility for the mistakes that have been made in her tax cutting plans as her new chancellor announced he was tearing almost all of them up. in an interview tonight with our political editor chris mason liz truss acknowledged that her plans had gone too far and too fast but insisted she wasn t going anywhere and said she would lead the conservatives into the next general election. the prime minister has been speaking to our political editor chris mason. prime minister, who is to blame for this mess? first of all i do want to accept responsibility