effective bankruptcy in the next few years unless the funding system is reformed. a report by the local government information unit has found services like parks, leisure facilities and libraries are at risk of being cut, while council tax could rise in some areas. our reporter vincent mcaviney has more. yay! well done. alex is about to turn 18, and on top of the regular worries parents have about their children, mum, sylvia also has to think about alex s autism and the extra support he needs to gain independence. support that s under fire for her and other families as birmingham city council struggles with financial difficulties. what you get is families that are on their knees with a trauma presentation, traumatised kids, and they never get decent outcomes. theyjust end up constantly trying to get the basics, which everybody else s child gets naturally. and it s notjust birmingham that s struggling. across the country, councils are warning that front line neighbourhood se
good evening. the last time julia navalny visited strasboug, she was with her husband and her children. he was with her in germany recovering, after russian security officials had poisoned him with the deadly nerve agent novichok. three years on she was back. but this time not with her husband. his body has been transferred to moscow, in time for friday s funeral. ms navalany told the european parliament she had spent the past 12 days, since her husband s death in an arctic penal colony, fighting to get his body back from the russian authorities. and even after they had killed him she said they had abused his body and his mother. she urged the politcians to stop thinking of putin, as a politician who plays by their rules. on his orders, alexei was tortured for three years. he was starved in a tiny stone cell, cut off from the outside world and denied visits, phone calls, and then even letters. and then they killed him. even after that, they abused his body and abused his moth
in the south east of england. the sa year old singer and rapper, aaron carter has been found dead at his home in california. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. there s only three days to go until the midterm elections in the us which will decide which party controls congress. ahead of the vote, the biggest names in us politics have all chosen to head for the key battleground state of pennsylvania. donald trump will be holding a prime time rally. but within the past couple of hours, not one but two democratic presidents barack obama and joe biden have held a joint rally in philadelphia. they re trying to get every last vote out for their candidatejohn fetterman, who s up against republican mehmet oz who s been endorsed by donald trump. president biden said this is a defining moment for us democracy. this isn t referendum this year, it s a choice, a choice between two vastly different visions of america. maybe it s in our blood butjohn and i be