hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. i m sally bundock. it s a big day ahead for the chancellor kwasi kwarteng as he delivers the keynote speech at the conservative party conference later in birmingham. the new finance minister is expected to insist the government will stay the course on his tax cutting growth plan despite the swift and turbulent reaction on financial markets. this time last week, the pound hit an all time low against the us dollar and days later, the bank of england was forced to take emergency action to protect pension funds. i m joined by dr roger barker director of policy at the institute of directors. how will kwasi kwarteng do today? what are you hoping chancellor will say? i’m today? what are you hoping chancellor will say? i m sure the chancellor chancellor will say? i m sure the chancellor will chancellor will say? i m sure the chancellor will reiterate | the chancellor will reiterate his commitment to taxcutting p
independently, orwith independently, or with families. pressure is growing on the british prime minister, liz truss, to ditch her plans for removing the top rate of income tax after several senior conservatives say parliament won t vote it through. u nfortu nately, unfortunately, and really this is the base, i don t think the houseis is the base, i don t think the house is in a place where it is likely to support that. there is a way through that it isn t just pushing on. and the skin tight fit of the spray on dress that s the talk of the catwalk at this year s paris fashion shows. hello and welcome to the programme. brazil s presidential election is heading for a second round run off after no candidate won 50% of the vote. the socialist former president luiz inacio lula da silva, has 48%, the right wing incumbentjair bolsonaro won 44% of the vote. lula was tipped to win this first round outright, and when he didn t, he acknowledged he and his supporters have a lot of work to
time pop star turned church of england vicar, the reverend richard coles, whose frank account of his own grief has struck a chord with many. why did grief nearly break him? richard coles, welcome to hardtalk. britain has just lived through a rather extraordinary, momentous experience, the death of queen elizabeth, the mourning that came with it. and many people have said that the death of the queen revived very sharp memories for them of their own losses and how they felt during their own losses. you ve just written a book about grief. is that true of you, too? oh, yes, very much so. i think the queen had a representative life as well as a sort of constitutional life and a personal life. and her loss is a loss we all experience. people say, oh, but you didn t know her, but of course, we all did know her from banknotes, from stamps, from simplyjust being there, the christmas message. and that absence affects all of us. and any absence will elicit in you your own experience of
the country look like a bunch of clowns or maybe you can wait but the damage has been done. this is the point and this is why tory mps are so despondent, is they realise that in the space of a week she has managed to take their reputation, whether or not it is true, take on the reputation for economic management and flushed it down the toilet. the reaction from the markets last week showed how incompetence she and the chancellor are when it comes to basic politics. they didn t even discuss this with the cabinet never mind their own mps, now they expect mps to vote for it. it s crackers. you mps, now they expect mps to vote for it. it s crackers. it. it s crackers. you follow developments it. it s crackers. you follow developments very - it. it s crackers. you follow developments very closely | it. it s crackers. you follow. developments very closely at westminster and number ten. this idea there was no consultation with the cabinet, does that gel with you? everything in th
got the money, there. are you mr dior? oh, no, i m mr fauvel, accounts. let me help you. she speaks french excuse me, cher madame, but it would be my honour to have you view the collection as my guest. there you are. merci. shall we? 0h! now, the first thing to say is, lesley manville, isabelle huppert two of the greatest screen talents currently working in the cinema together in what is a complete piece of fluff. now, that s not a criticism, 0k? particularly at times like these, a bit of fluff goes quite a long way. the thing with the film is, it kind of constructs this fairy tale concoction. there are a few nods to the real world. there s a bin strike going on when she gets to paris, so there s a little bit of rubbish. there s lots of french people walking around with paper bags with baguettes sticking out of them, so we re still in that kind of very artificial version of france. what works about this is that the performances are really charming. jason isaacs plays a kind