potentially by cutting council tax. the sun has more from the wagatha christie court case and says rebekah vardy and her husband, jamie, will move to us in the wake of the embarrasing revelations at the high court. that was our quick look through the front pages. lovely to have you both this evening. just got my glasses, i m blind without them. kate, if you could kick us off with the front page of the metro, and a really disturbing story featured on this front page, this case study that they mentioned. front page, this case study that they mentioned. this is from a food bank, and some they mentioned. this is from a food bank, and some of they mentioned. this is from a food bank, and some of the they mentioned. this is from a food bank, and some of the language - they mentioned. this is from a food | bank, and some of the language and it is really disturbing and upsetting, telling stories of parents who have accidentally poisoned their children because they ve turned t
Earlier, my colleague Sumi Somaskanda spoke to robert costa of cbs news, about a potential path to a deal and the obstacles mr mccarthy would have to overcome. At this point, there is a viable path. Based on my conversations with some House Republicans today about getting the government funded for a short period, maybe three or four days, maybe a week, maybe two weeks that would be whats called a short term, clean, Continuing Resolution. Some kind of stopgap bill to keep the government running as negotiations are ongoing and negotiations are ongoing. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy is struggling to get his republican members to come around to a consensus. Theres a real debate among republicans about how to handle immigration with any kind of government funding bill, how far to go. So far, mccarthy has really been toiling in terms of getting members of the so called House Freedom caucus, the hard line conservatives, to come along. What does this mean for Kevin Mccarthy . 21 21 republicans
mr sunak is trying to save his rwanda scheme ahead of a vote in the house of commons tomorrow. we ll talk to conservative mp sir geoffrey cox, a former attorney general, who supports the bill. also tonight: an exclusive report from newsnight discovers that elite afghan soldiers trained by the uk are facing imminent deportation back to taliban controlled afghanistan. the afghans will say, well, you manage to mount a complex, comprehensive manage to mount a complex, comprehensive enduring military o eration comprehensive enduring military operation into comprehensive enduring military operation into afghanistan, - comprehensive enduring military operation into afghanistan, so i comprehensive enduring military. operation into afghanistan, so the fact you cannot help us with this small thing of managing the migration of maybe a couple of thousand, you are either guilty of incompetence or ill will. you can t have it both ways. the full report in a quarter of an hour. and as the
record high, and the office for budget responsibility says it would represent the largest fall in living standards since the 19505. our business correspondent emma simpson reports. these reforms will save around two million self employed people an average of £350 a yearfrom april. better than nothing. tuning into the autumn statement at walthamstow market. a good place to test the mood. pensioners seemed happy. him increasing pension, that s good for me. and young workers like the rise in the minimum wage too. 10% more i m going to win i m going to earn. yeah. who wouldn t like it? but other workers said the cut to national insurance isn t enough. not with the way things are at the moment. the cost of living is too expensive. £450, divide that by 12, divide it by the family that you ve got. is it enough? i don t think so. here are the key details. first, that national insurance cut. it s going from 12% to ten for all employees from january. the self employed will see a
but going by what we ve already heard from us officials one major goal mightjust be simply improving communication. live now to san francisco. we can speak to sumi somaskanda. the white house has been playing down what we can expect. it is an important meeting, nonetheless? that is absolutel important meeting, nonetheless? twat is absolutely right. this is being called a significant meeting but they are talking about talking, about re establishing a lot of communication, not only between president biden and president xi at the highest level, but military to military. there was this accusation from the us that china had flown a spy from the us that china had flown a spy balloon and then either shut down the spy billing. the chinese rejected those accusations. at that time the us military try to help china never depicted. it was a source of great consternation in the us. who do we call in the future, will somebody pick up? that is the basis of what they are discussing, by 30