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russian shelling hits targets in ukraine overnight as nato and the western allies promise to continue helping kyiv to defend itself. hundreds of allegations of sexual or domestic abuse are made against metropolitan police staff. a report by conservationists says global wildlife populations have fallen by nearly 70% in less than five decades. good morning and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister is coming under increasing pressure to rethink the tax cuts announced in last month s mini budget. one tory mp accused her of wrecking ten years of conservative policies aimed at helping working people. this morning the foreign secretary james cleverly warned tory mps that any attempt to replace liz truss as prime minister would be a disastrously bad idea . let s take a look at how we ve got this point. yesterday, liz truss appeared at pmqs for the first time since the chancellor set out the mini budget. she was repeatedly asked about her management of the economy which h ....
times with a picture of rishi sunak at his campaign launched today. i thought there was an interesting line in this piece, emma, a new poll by opinion said soonack was the preferred candidate of 28% of party members. it was followed by liz truss on 20%. and i think that is interesting. because at the moment all of these candidates are having to appeal to mp5. but at the end of the day it will be the membership that actually has to choose who wins and they may not necessarily want the same things, may they? you are riuht. the same things, may they? you are riht. it the same things, may they? you are riuht. it is the same things, may they? you are right- it is so the same things, may they? you are right. it is so less the same things, may they? you are right. it is so less controllable, - right. it is so less controllable, it is not your whatsapp groups, not people you can talk to in the bars and very much what, not that you can engineer the votes, but you can control ....
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are rachel watson, the scottish political editor at the scottish sun, along with the author and journalist, emma woolf. tomorrow s front pages, starting with the ft leads with the coversative leadership race while eight candidates have qualified for the first ballot, the paper reports that borisjohnson s allies want to stop former chancellor rishi sunak from securing leadership. the express also says that loyalists to the outgoing prime minister want to stop rishi sunak and urge tory mps to back foreign secretary liz truss instead. the i also highlights the eight candidates left in the race for leader of the conservative party. meanwhile, the telegraph reports that rishi sunak will run the economy like thatcher if he wins his bid for prime minister. the guardian features an image of a stunning view from space from the james webb telescope s view from space as well as th ....
who was allegedly racially profiled during a stop and search, says he was pulled over for a second time by seven armed police officers. the met says it has voluntarily referred the incident to the independent office for police conduct. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, has set out proposals that he says will prevent household gas and electricity bills rising sharply this winter in england, scotland and wales. he wants to freeze the energy price cap for six months and pay for the shortfall, in part, by backdating the windfall tax on oil and gas companies. but a leading independent research group says labour s plans could end up costing as much as the government s covid furlough scheme if it was extended beyond the original six month period, and they were not a long term solution. here s our political correspondent, ione wells. from doing the washing to cooking food to heating our homes, the cost of energy is going up just as autumn and winter months are around the corner, w ....
have a windfall tax on the oil and gas companies. the taliban are celebrating the first anniversary of their return to power in afghanistan but not everybody is cheering, especially women and girls. here as flash floods hit cornwall, the text alerts that will give you a direct warning about severe weather and other life threatening events. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the uk has become the first country to approve what its manufacturers are calling a next generation covid vaccine. the uk s medicines regulator has approved a new version of moderna s coronavirus vaccine the first to target both the omicron variant as well as the original strain of the virus. ministers say the vaccine will now form part of the autumn booster campaign. our medical editor fergus walsh is here with more details. this is the start of a new era of covid vaccines. until now, they ve all been designed against the original form of the virus which emerged in wuhan in china at the end 2 ....