hello, and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with u. not your average balloon. u.s. officials sharing new information and they say, yes, china was spying. its balloon part of a surveillance op and scooping up communications snooping on locations in the united states, plus, the president s dual purpose road show. watch me, joe biden says, when asked if he s too old for a second term and today in florida, a state donald trump won twice, the president will warn seniors republicans want to gut social security and medicare. republicans say that s a lie and duct tape and bailing wire. congress gets new behind-the-scenes evidence of how southwest sputtered stranding thousands over christmas direct from its pilots union. up first, though for us a big new download of information on the chinese balloon. that courtesy of classified congressional briefings. american defense officials and the fbi. briefers telling l
president with the violence. tonight with the context, mick mulvaney, president trump s former chief of staff, and the former conservative cabinet ministerjustine greening. hello, welcome to the programme. on a tour of the television studios this morning, the business secretary jacob rees mogg tried to blame the bank of england, rather than the uk s economic policies, for the recent market turmoil. what has caused the effect in pension funds, because of some quite high risk but low probability investment strategies, is not necessarily the mini budget. it could just as easily be the fact that the day before, the bank of england did not raise interest rates as much as the federal reserve did, and i thinkjumping to conclusions about causality is not meeting the bbc s requirement for impartiality. it is a commentary rather than a factual question. it s notjust the bbc pointing to the cause and effect of kwasi kwarteng s budget. while there is undoubtedly a global element to this
are the biggest tax cutting budget in half a century. we ll find out what the changes mean for households. also this lunchtime: four russian occupied areas of ukraine are voting on whether to become part of russia in what the west sees as a move by moscow to annex the regions. a court has been shown distressing video footage about suicide and self harm that the schoolgirl molly russell viewed before she took her own life. and the multi award winning novelist dame hilary mantel, best known for her wolf hall trilogy, has died aged 70. coming up on the bbc news channel, can england rediscover theirform again? italy awaits tonight before germany on monday, with gareth southgate hoping to avoid the disappointment of relegation in the nations league. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. in a massive shake up of the uk s finances, the chancellor, kwasi kwarteng, has outlined a series of tax cuts and spending commitments that will cost £45 billion by 2027. the independ