the chancellor says we ve turned a corner, but is the uk now in a cul de sac? i now call the chancellor to make the autumn statement, jeremy hunt. jeremy hunt trumpets a two percentage point cut in national insurance, and an almost 2% rise in the living wage, but the uk tax burden is still the heaviest since world war ii, and growth forecasts are down, so will the cost of living crisis still be a cost of living crisis next year and the year after? nick s been out gauging reaction injeremy hunt s patch. ijust i just worry that this is a government that is running out of good ideas. government that is running out of good ideas- government that is running out of aood ideas. , ., ., , , good ideas. they are doing the best the can good ideas. they are doing the best they can under good ideas. they are doing the best they can under the good ideas. they are doing the best they can under the circumstances. l they can under the circumstances. they they can under the circumstanc
for talks on the sidelines. the leaders of the world s two biggest economies have a lot to discuss not least their ongoing disputes over trade, technology, taiwan and the drug fentanyl. the bbc s james clayton is in san francisco and sent us the latest. apac has started here and it is a huge apac has started here and it is a huge moment apac has started here and it is a huge moment for apac has started here and it is a huge moment for the apac has started here and it is a huge moment for the city apac has started here and it is a huge moment for the city of san francisco. it is summer to be held here since the united nations charter was signed here in 1945. nations charter was signed here in 1916. this is a huge economic summit. you are talking about more than 50% of the worlds trade belongs to the 21 nations who will be attending here this week. talking about 40% of the world s population. it is a big economic conference but by far the biggest ticket item here is the bigge
or other asian muslim origin is well established. today, ken macdonald, a former director of public prosecutions, said it is a disease of racism and sexism that will not abate until it is confronted . labour mp sarah champion said that people are more afraid to be called a racist than they are afraid to be wrong about calling out child abuse , which has inhibited exposure of wrong doing. she asked, why are we not commissioning research to see what is going on and how we need to change what is going on, so that it never happens again? . they re good questions, so we are going to ask them for the first part of the programme this evening. first, rabiya limbada reports from oxford. some of the 18 men and one woman convicted of abusing girls in newcastle. the men convicted were mainly british born, and came from bangladeshi, pakistani, indian, iraqi, iranian and turkish communities. a report in 2011 by the child exploitation and online protection centre identified over 2000 pot
welcome to bbc news. america and japan have strongly condemned north korea for test firing a ballistic missile the first such launch since donald trump entered the white house. japan s prime minister shinzo abe said it was intolerable, while mr trump said the us would back japan 100%. the missile flew for about 300 miles, eventually falling into the sea of japan. this report from our tokyo correspondent rupert wingfield hayes contains some flash photography. this is the launch of a musudan ballistic missile, the same type that was fired from north korea into the sea of japan earlier this morning. today s launch was almost certainly timed so that north korea s dictator, kim jong un, could crash a weekend party taking place on the other side of the world. president donald trump and japan s prime minister, shinzo abe, have been spending the weekend golfing in florida. mr abe was not amused by the north korean intrusion. translation: north korea s recent missile launch is abs
from a very noisy while albert hall in london, for now, goodbye. hello. you re watching bbc news. america and japan have strongly condemned north korea, for test firing a ballistic missile, the first since donald trump entered the white house. japan s prime minister shinzo abe said it was intolerable, while mr trump said the us would back japan 100 percent. the missile flew for about 3,000 miles, eventually falling into the sea of japan. graham hutchings from the oxford analytica think tank has written extensively on china and the asia pacific rim. he told me it was difficult to see how president trump could contain north korea. and i think a fair conjecture that president trump doesn t know quite what to do yet after all, the administration has hardly bedded down. very noticeable, however, notable that new defence ministerjames mattis went to seoul as his first foreign visit last week and spoke powerfully about the need to do something about north korea. then went on