fears are raised of a recession this year. bank of england confirms its emergency bond buying system will end on thursday, despite reports could the experts ended. the court hears reports that a nurse accused. blood supplies falter critically low level in england, prompting nhs blood and transplant to have its first ever amber alert, meaning hospitals have to postpone some elective surgery. and in ukraine, the defence ministers were asking brussels to step up defence of its country so can create an air shield against russian missile attacks. . the bbc finds that donations to tick tock are being taken by the social media platform rather than given to families from syria. the prime minister has said she ll absolutely stick to her promise not to cut public spending. she was speaking at the first prime minister s questions since last month s mini budget, which provoked turmoil on the financial markets. the labour leader sir kier starmer said she should reverse what he called he
twitter. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. we begin this hour in sri lanka where protesters have stormed the president s official residence in colombo as the country s economic crisis deepens. the whereabouts of the president are unknown. police fired tear gas in an effort to disperse huge crowds gathered to demand the resignation of president rajapaksa. numerous groups have travelled from to the capital to join the demonstration, which went ahead after the authorities attempt to impose a curfew was abandoned. thousands of troops and police officers have been deployed. it s the latest protest to be sparked by the country s worst economic crisis in decades. sri lanka is suffering rampant inflation and is struggling to import food, fuel and medicine. a short time ago i spoke to our south asia editor anbarasan ethirajan. i began by asking him about his assessment today s events. there have been some dramatic developments over the past few hours
Tomorrow as there is today because it is tomorrow that they will go through that ceremony with the queen, the formal meeting with the queen, the formal meeting with the queen at balmoral in aberdeenshire and only at that point is the winner officially the prime minister. and then there will be speeches here where i am standing today here in downing street tomorrow afternoon. so it is a very, very busy 48 hours in westminster. and let s talk through some of the issues that are going to face whoever is announced as the winner in a couple of hours. let s return to and recover, executive editor editor at the economist and whitehall editor of the financial times, 0llie. you are at the queen elizabeth conference centre in a different part of westminster from where i am because it is there that the announcement is going to be made in a couple of hours. in fact, you have been there for a little while for us so thank you. what is the chatter, what are people saying first of all? what is the moo
My publishing their resignation letters, they have paragraphs about what boris johnson letters, they have paragraphs about what borisjohnson did well and ukraine was always coming up. i think we will see a continuation of his policy on these matters by whoever becomes executive leader. conservative leader. i m joined now by the whitehall editor of the financial times, sebastian payne. from inside the red wall as it were, how does this contest look? how worried are those mps who won seats under borisjohnson? these candidates may be very admirable but they are just not going to cut it in those places that, for the first time in some cases, gave their votes, lent their votes to the conservative party. votes, lent their votes to the conservative party. you can imagine nearly every conservative party. you can imagine nearly every contender conservative party. you can imagine nearly every contender is conservative party. you can imagine nearly every contender is probably l nearly e