after a drop off in donations as the cost of living crisis bites. and the british built space rover looking for work after its mission to mars was cancelled. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister has refused to rule out a real terms cut in benefits despite growing pressure to do so. liz truss faces a fresh battle with some conservative mps who want her to promise welfare payments will rise in line with inflation rather than earnings a lower percentage figure that would save the government billions of pounds. there s already a cabinet split on the issue. the leader of the commons penny morduant has openly demanded that benefits do go up in line with prices. this morning the prime minister told the bbc she would still like to see the rate of tax paid by the highest earners to be lower, despite ditching her plan to do just that only yesterday. iain watson reports from the conservative party conference. it s tin hat time for liz truss. she and her chancel
more surplus food to those in need after a drop off in donations as the cost of living crisis bites. and the british built space rover looking for work after its mission to mars was cancelled. good afternoon. the prime minister has refused to rule out a real terms cut in benefits, despite growing pressure to do so. liz truss faces a fresh battle with some conservative mps who want her to promise welfare payments will rise in line with inflation rather than earnings a lower percentage figure that would save the government billions of pounds. there s already a cabinet split on the issue the leader of the commons, penny morduant, has openly demanded that benefits do go up in line with prices. this morning, the prime minister told the bbc she would still like to see the rate of tax paid by the highest earners to be lower, despite ditching her plan to do just that only yesterday. iain watson reports from the conservative party conference. it s tin hat time for liz truss. she a
and we ll be talking to andrew harding our africa correspondent about the conditions that have led to the crisis. also tonight. in birmingham, prime minister and chancellor are dealing with more division this time over increasing benefits in line with inflation. in ukraine, an extended report on the areas being abandoned by russian forces and the high price being paid. what happened here wasn tjust a defeat for president putin, it was a complete humiliation. two and a half years after covid 19 struck, a public inquiry opens into the uk s handling of the pandemic. and in tonight s champions league football liverpool take on rangers the first ever competitive match between the two sides. and on the bbc news channel, england captain leah williamson won t play against the usa as a training injury rules her out of friday s big friendly at wembley. good evening. we start with one of the most severe humanitarian crises anywhere in the world right now. we have an exten
so bad, he will do what it takes to get it under control even if it means more economic pain. have got to get inflation behind us and wish there were a painless way to do that. there isn t. david: working americans are spending a month out of their annual salary to keep up with soaring prices. is inflation and its causes killing our economy? let s ask our panel, dan heninger, kim strawser land mary anastasia o grady. biden is downplaying inflation, powell saying it is essentially willing to risk recession to cure it. who is right? let s focus on that remark by president biden that inflation last month rose inch. a new turn for the economic lexicon, inflation coming up and inch. the biden white house and the federal reserve are operating in alternative universes when it comes to inflation. the white house has become a wholly politicized subject. the federal reserve, it is about economic reality. the white house is avoiding the underlying economics of inflation, trying to
the status by queen victoria. good afternoon. nasa is to launch a new era of moon exploration. later today the most powerful rocket it s ever built will blast off from the kennedy space center in florida. the artemis test flight will orbit the moon and it s hoped will help pave the way for a crewed mission to the lunar surface in three years. our science editor, rebecca morelle reports. it s almost time. standing on launch pad 39b, the same one used by the apollo missions, the most powerful rocket nasa has ever built is ready for liftoff. the rocket is simply enormous. and it s only when you re standing here that you really get a sense of its size. and this is the last chance we ll see it up close. the launch pad is closing and fuelling is about to begin. because in just a few hours time, this will be blasting off. the first step in our return to the moon for 50 years. we talk about moonshots as things that humans can do when we put our differences aside and we focus on the