Sport on bbc news how a run in with eddiejones dog has apparently put owen farrell at risk of missing the six nations clash with scotland on saturday good evening, and welcome to the bbc news at 6. The chancellor has been forced to defend his budget and the controversial changes to increase National Insurance for Self Employed workers. Thats despite a tory Manifesto Pledge not to raise National Insurance. Its angered a number of conservative backbenchers and been roundly criticised by labour. There has been partial backing for the increase from the influential think tank the institute for fiscal studies, but overall it described the chancellors plans as a sticking plaster rather than a fundamental review. Our chief Political Correspondent vicki young has been following the days events. He says hes backing business, but visiting the West Midlands today the chancellor had to fend off accusations that hes bashing the workers who keep the wheels of the economy turning. Putting up taxes is
we would not be in the straits we are in now. so 2015 we finally reached an agreement in paris, and that agreement said we must stay below 1.5 degrees above the preindustrial level, as you were saying, but what are the chances of that today? we are now over 1.3 celsius above the preindustrial level, and we are rapidly approaching the 1.5. and the more on the climate crisis and cop27 as it develops. leaders currently gathering for the family photo. treasury sources have indicated that the chancellor is leaning towards more spending cuts than tax rises, as he finalises his plans to fill the hole in the public finances. the measures will be assessed by the independent 0ffice for budget responsibility,
key thing is education, education is the single one thing we can do to draw down emissions, particularly young girls around the world, half the population we are not educated enough to make life choices, less people, less impact on the environment, and huge things we can all live individually do and if we did it collectively, we can make a world of difference. did it collectively, we can make a world of difference. thank you very much, world of difference. thank you very much. chris world of difference. thank you very much, chris turney. you can follow all the latest developments on the cop27 negotiations in egypt on our live page at bbc.co.uk /news. the headlines on bbc news: world leaders arrive at the cop climate summit in egypt amid warnings from the un that the past eight years are on track to be the warmest on record. a growing political row in westminster over text messages sent by sir gavin williamson to a colleague. downing street says the prime minister believes the ex