the new uk chancellor, jeremy hunt has been in talks with prime minister, liz truss as they consider further changes to the mini budget that had been the centrepiece of her economic plan. 48 hours into thejob, mr hunt has made clear nothing has been ruled out on taxes or spending. he also said the prime minister is in charge. some of her own mps are continuing to criticise her though, and are calling for changes to her team and they re questioning whether she can remain in office. here s our political correspondent ben wright. behind the doors of the prime minister s country retreat, liz truss met her chancellor not unusual in normal times, but these are not. jeremy hunt has been sent in to urgently rewrite the government s economic plan. so who has the power now? the prime minister is in charge. really? i think it is important that when you talk about ditching things, the biggest element of that mini budget was the energy price guarantee. some tory mps think liz truss ne
huh? capital t for thing. hundreds of billions for climate change. deficit reduction and tax hikes. it could also turbocharge the i.r.s. more on that in a moment. dana: democrats named it the inflation reduction act. republicans say it s laughable and not even bernie sanders is buying it. i want to take a moment to say a few words about the so-called inflation reduction act that we are debating this evening. i say so-called, by the way, because according to the cbo and other economic organizations that have studied this bill, it will, in fact, have a minimal impact on inflation. dana: team fox coverage. marc thiessen is on deck with analysis. we begin with jacqui heinrich at the white house. democrats certainly think that bringing key priorities on healthcare and climate across the finish line ahead of the mid-terms will turn things around for them. poll after poll has shown that the biggest problem for the president and his party is inflation. and even though they ve
health services. cases of the virus are rare outside central and west africa now on bbc news unspun world. hello and welcome to bbc headquarters, broadcasting house here in london, for unspun world, the programme where we get straight answers from the bbc s remarkable range of experts right around the globe. in this programme, more and more governments are starting to think that ukraine may actually be winning the war which russia launched against it. the war is really exhausting the country, exhausting the ukrainian economy. covid hits north korea big time. what does that mean for kim jong un s future? in the past, north korea has been very sensitive about international aid. to accept that, it means to acknowledge that we can t cope by ourselves, which would be a huge embarrassment to the government. and should we learn to love the black holes which we are just starting to photograph in the depths of the universe? it raises questions about ourselves, our place in the univer
what we are really saying here and calling on the government to consider is we need to look more widely at this and the measures and flexibilities that community pharmacists have. we would like to have some of the abilities that our hospital colleagues have where they can change the item, for example. for example, if the item prescribed is tablets, we would like to be able to prescribe capsules to provide capsules it s really as simple as that. we really have seen during the pandemic the need for people to have access to fast care and be able to walk into their community pharmacies. it s a hindrance that we continually have to go back to the prescriber to ask for these items to be changed when there are measures in place ind community pharmacies which could help patients and get them access to speedier treatment. thorrun govind. now it s time for a look at the weather with helen willitts. lots of dry and usable weather but rather a lot of cloud particularly across the wes