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Im sally bundock. We start here in the uk, where the Chancellor Rachel reeves will pledge A Budget To Rebuild Britain in her speech to the Labour Party Conference in liverpool today. Shes under pressure to provide some optimism after labours gloomy messaging on the state of the economy they inherited from the conservatives. But her controversial decision to Axe Winter Fuel payments for 10 Million pensioners threatens to overshadow her speech, with a vote challenging the move also expected today. Lets get more now from joe nellis, whos economic adviser to mha a Uk AccountingFirm A ....
As they were held to a 2 2 draw by arsenal, who were down to ten men after leandro trossard was sent off. Substitute stones scored in the eighth minute of time added on after goals from riccardo calafiori and gabriel had threatened city s 32 game unbeaten run at home in the premier league. Earlier, erling haaland had scored his 100th goal for city to open the scoring injust his 105th game, equaling cristiano ronaldo s record for the fastest man to score 100 goals for a european club. They put four players in line. So incredible, tall, incredible commitment. I think we are not able to do that as a team. So, a big compliment from arsenal because they defend every single ball, every single block until the end. You know, what we did really well. We were patient enough for the, you know, for the turn the right, left, left right. No cross, to cross. You know look the right moment. And at the end we were yeah, we were fortunate. A big blow because we had it. It was 97 minutes. They extended a ....
Was sent off. Substitute stones scored in the eighth minute of time added on after goals from riccardo calafiori and gabriel had threatened city s 32 game unbeaten run at home in the premier league. Earlier, erling haaland had scored his 100th goal for city to open the scoring injust his 105th game, equaling cristiano ronaldo s record for the fastest man to score 100 goals for a european club. They put four players in line. So incredible, tall, incredible commitment. I think we are not able to do that as a team. So, a big compliment from arsenal because they defend every single ball, every single block until the end. You know, what we did really well. We were patient enough for the, you know, for the turn the right, left, left right. No cross, to cross. You know look the right moment. And at the end we were yeah, we were fortunate. A big blow because we had it. It was 97 minutes. They extended again and we ended up conceding the goal, but obviously it s already a miracle. You know, we ....
Across lebanon last week killing at least 20 people. Israel hasn t said whether it was involved. As the fighting intensifies, un chief antonio guterres says he fears lebanon could become another gaza. The lebanese health ministry raised the death toll to 45 in friday s strike by israel targeting hezbollah commanders in southern beirut. Most of those killed were civilians. Authorities say women and children are among the dead. On sunday, israel launched further strikes on towns in southern lebanon, killing three people. And the israeli military says it destroyed thousands of hezbollah rocket launcher barrels over the past few days. Israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu had this to say. No country can accept the wanton rocketing of its cities. We cannot accept it either. We will take whatever action is necessary to restore security and to bring our people safe, back to their homes. Meanwhile, in lebanon hundreds attended the funeral of ibrahim aqil, a high ranking hezbollah comman ....
Martin griffiths, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. Now, you ve been in that seat on this programme before, but this is the first time that you re talking to us since you stepped down from your role as the un s humanitarian chief injune this year. You have greater liberty, essentially, now to tell us what you think about the situations that you ve seen. May we begin in sudan, which is just one of the crises that you ve dealt with in recent times? it s a civil war that in the last 18 months has put an extraordinary 25 million people in need of support and struggling to survive. You said recently that you thought sudan could be worse than ethiopia in the 1980s. What did you mean? well, sudan is the first place now where famine has been formally declared, as you know, the first place since 2017, because there s 25 million people in need, and we don t know precisely, because of the lack of access to these people, how much in need they are. We think that the ....