we start in the uk, where we now have a new finance minister after a night of high political drama. the former chancellor rishi sunak handed in his resignation on tuesday evening, citing a failure of leadership from the prime minister in his handling of the latest political scandal. this left the top finance job up in the airfor a few hours before nadim zahawi was appointed as the new chancellor of the exchequer. this comes at a critical time for the economy as the uk grapples with a cost of living crisis and rising inflation. this was acknowledged in rishi sunak s resignation letter. he said: now, this is being read by some as a defence for current high taxes which could mean that the new man in the job may have been brought in to change that. so what can we expect from the new chancellor? i m joined byjustin urquhart stewart founder of the investment platform regionally. justin, platform regionally. good morning to you. so, justin, good morning to you. so, let s talk abou
it s an effort to ease the global food crisis, that is affecting millions of people around the world. now on bbc news, the media show. welcome to the addition of the media show stopping the conservative party leadership races down to two candidates, rishi sunak and liz truss. there have been two debates between them and some of the other candidates already, one got cancelled after some of the candidates declined to take part and then the bbc is planning another with just the final two and the whole process and the way the debates have played out have raised broader questions about how they run. we are going to be speaking to jonathan from sky news, julie etching as well, but first of all let s bring in faisal islam because faisal, you are going to be part of the on air team for this bbc debate, tell us more. . for this bbc debate, tell us more. . , ., for this bbc debate, tell us more. ~ . , ., for this bbc debate, tell us more. ., more. an awful lot has been done, more.
during saturday, petering out. some patchy rain in the morning, scotland and northern ireland and then brightening up, not much rain for england and wales, mainly west and wales and north west england, brightness and sunshine ahead of that and very warm once again, 2627 celsius, low 20s in scotland and northern ireland. of uncertainty about sunday. this slice of cloud and rain across the middle third of the country, dry out to the to the north. the rain could be further south and it could be heavier. at the moment southern areas dry and still very warm in the sunshine in the south east. sophie. thanks, stav. and that s bbc news at six, from the six team it s goodbye. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our welcome to sportsday. i m jane dougall, and we are live from birmingham as the city prepares to host the biggest sporting programme in commonwealth games history. the countdown is on to the opening ceremony at alexander stadium, where 72 nations an
falling much lower than 25 celsius. what is known as a tropical night. but have a look at how fickle the weather is at the moment. in actual fact, first thing this morning these were the kind of temperatures we had with temperatures in low, single figures from scotland down to 0xfordshire. because high pressure is here at the moment, but it is actually allowing the airflow to come from the north and with clear skies, those temperatures fell away. we have more in the way of cloud developing as we speak and act like a trigger off a few showers through this afternoon. no showers will gradually drift their way and steadily northwards, they will be very hit and miss so not many seeing them. the temperatures will be disappointing, perhapsjust below disappointing, perhaps just below parfor disappointing, perhaps just below par for the disappointing, perhapsjust below par for the time of year. top temperatures of ia to 22 celsius and thatis temperatures of ia to 22 celsius and that i