with the president s response. bill: twice as many americans say the president is doing more harm than good. this is they feel the strain on everything from food to lodging to energy and gasoline to the white house we go for reaction. jackie heinrich is there on the north lawn. what are they saying? good morning. good morning. you guys said it. voters are very concerned about inflation. they feel like the biden white house is making matters worse for them and really interestingly 2/3 of people say inflation has caused them financial hardship. when you look at lower income people, that number jumps to 3/4 of the respondents in the poll. 17% say they are better off financially than a year ago. by more than 2 to 1 people say the president s economic policies have hurt rather than helped them personally. nearly half of americans, 46%, believe the massive social spending bill that the white house sees as the solution to this inflation would only push inflation higher. democrat
continues, the bank of england is forced to step in again. let s start with the war in ukraine we ve seen a second day of russian missile strikes across the country. have a look at this map. it shows all the places that have been hit since monday morning. we ll take a closer look at the damage done in a moment. but first, let s look at the international response. an emergency meeting of g7 leaders that s the group of rich countries has warned russia that irresponsible nuclear rhetoric is threatening global peace. ukraine s president, volodymyr zelensky, had this message. translation: i ask you to increase yourjoint efforts to help financially to create the air shield for ukraine. millions of people will be grateful to the group of seven. now this is the statement issued by the g7 after its meeting. these pictures released earlier by the russian ministry of defence show a little of what s been going on. more cruise missiles launched what they describe as a massive
who will be the next prime minister rishi sunak or another candidate or could borisjohnson attempt to come back we will know the next occupant by the end of next week. but there s the subleased as downing street implodes across a cost of living crisis. the rest of the country is in turmoil is in it? hello and welcome i m christian fraser live from downing street on a huge day in british politics. liz truss has resigned as leader of the conservative party after 44 days in office. she is now the shortest serving prime minister in british history. just 2a hours ago she told mps defiantly that she was a fighter not a quitter. but her fate was sealed by the resignation of the home secretary yesterday and the chaotic scenes in the house of commons last night. at 1.30 this afternoon liz truss emerged outside number ten and announced that she had spoken to the king and was resigning. a new prime minister is expected to be in place by next friday , but it could be as soon as m
if gas prices keep rising. fuelling controversy. opec slashes production to boost oil prices, sparking an angry reaction from president biden. plus too broke for beauty? women around the world say they are cutting back on cosmetics so how is the industry responding? we ll hear from a top entrepreneur. we start here in the uk, where as you ve been hearing, prime minister liz truss has been presenting her plans to boost the economy in her keynote speech to the conservative party conference in birmingham. she re stated her commitment to lowering taxes just two days after being forced to abandon a pledge to cut income tax for the highest earners. markets remain nervous about the outlook for the uk s finances under ms truss s government after the mini budget statement on september 23rd that sent the pound to a record low and borrowing costs soaring. but she argues the disruption will be worth it. whenever there is change, there is disruption. and not everybody will be in f
another day and another announcement is expected from the chancellor, this time about the timing of his medium term plan for the economy. as kwasi kwarteng says, he is listening and the much awaited detail on his radical measures to boost economic growth will now come sooner, possibly this month. the government had previously insisted the fiscal plan would still be published on november the 23rd despite the market chaos that came with the announcement of the chancellor s mini budget. on monday, he revealed a plan to drop the uk s highest rate of tax for top earners would no longer go ahead and addressing his party conference, he acknowledged shortcomings in the initial presentation of his economic plans. ifi if i can be frank, i know the plan put forward only ten days ago has caused a little turbulence, i get it, i get it. we are listening and have listened and now i want to focus on delivering the major parts of our growth package. because with energy bill skyrocketing and