decision not to charge biden calling it selective persecution. welcome to fox news live, i m griff jenkins. hey, aish. aishah: i m aishah hasnie. they re looking to see if they helped with influencing peddling schemes. hi, lucas. it wasn t just our own peter doocy asking the president tough questions. here is cnn. for months you ve been asked about your age and you would respond with the word watch me and many of the american people have been watching and expressed concerns about your age. that is your judgment. okay? this is your judgment. the public that s not the judgment. press. i m the most qualified person in this country to be president of the united states and finish the job i started. 71% of ballot ground state voters say that biden is too hold to be an effective president. some white house officials are outraged they selected a trump appointee robert hur to investigate the president s handling of classified information, including top secret material
it s newsday. welcome to bbc news. it s 8am in singapore, and 9am injapan where we start the programme today. all of the 379 passengers and crew on board a japan airlines plane had a miraculous escape when it became engulfed in flames. thejet was coming in to land, when there was a collision with a coastguard plane. five people on board the smaller aircraft died. it was heading to deliver supplies to people affected by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake, in the province of noto. our correspondent, suranjana tewari, is at haneda airport, with more on the reaction on the ground. haneda airport, behind me, is slowly resuming service about 100 flights were cancelled as a result of that collision on the runway. now, mostly domestic flights, international flights have been taking off and landing, as well, but really extraordinary images coming in. and people here arejust digesting what happened when those two planes collided, leading to that massive fireball on the runway and this,
time now to get down to business. let s start here in the uk where prime minister liz truss has been announcing her new cabinet. she has been busy into the late hours. she s decided to give kwasi kwarteng the second most powerful role in downing street after appointing him as new chancellor of the exchequer. mr kwarteng has a tough job on his hands and takes over at a critical time for the uk economy with millions looking to him for help with soaring winter energy bills. so, what about the man himself? he attended the exclusive private school eton college and went on to graduate with a double first from cambridge university in classics and history. kwarteng then went on to work as a columnist for the daily telegraph and a financial analyst at banks, includingjp morgan. more recently, he was appointed as business secretary in 2021, replacing alok sharma in the borisjohnson government. that is a short synopsis. joining me now is fiona cincotta from city index. nice to see you.
the venue for next year s invictus games. hello and welcome. we begin with the focus on the day ahead for the uk s new prime minister who will hold the first meeting of her government ministers in downing street in the next few hours. they will discuss multibillion pound plans to tackle the soaring cost of living. liz truss rewarded her key allies with seniorjobs in a cabinet reshuffle hours after taking office. later, she goes face to face with the leader of the opposition at herfirst prime minister s questions in the house of commons. our political correspondent ben wright reports. elected by tory party members after boris johnson s elected by tory party members after borisjohnson s downfall, liz truss entered number ten promising a fresh start. but with energy bills soaring in a recession forecast, it is going to be tough. i recession forecast, it is going to be tough- to be tough. i will get britain workin: to be tough. i will get britain working again. to be tough. i
elected as leader of the conservative party. politics comes at us rather fast these days, doesn t it? this autumn s second new prime minister inherits a nightmarish soup of political and economic gloom. he moves in there tomorrow to try and sort it out. we ll have more from chris, in this extended edition of bbc news at ten, as we consider the prospects for a sunak premiership. at westminster the main opposition parties are united on the demand for a general election, so that millions of voters can have their say. labour thinks that we should be having a general election. i think everybody who i ve spoken to, the public, have said we should be having a general election. there is no mandate now. he should call an early general election. he s the second person in a row to be appointed as prime minister by tories, not elected by the population. mr sunak s rapid advance is a significant moment for politics. he s the first british asian to become prime minister. and we ll be askin