i drive over 50 miles a day and it s getting harder and harder. the politics of pot. no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana. the president pardons thousands. is it the first step toward nationwide legalization? inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics sunday, i m abby phillip. control of the u.s. senate could well rest on the state of georgia. republicans can t be feeling good about their chances there after the week their candidate has had. days after a woman told the daily beast that herschel walker encouraged her and paid for her abortion in 2009, the new york times is reporting on friday that he wanted her to have a second abortion two years later. that time she told the new york times she refused. she has the baby who is now ten years old. that child is one of three children that walker had not acknowledged publicly until this year. quote, as a father, she told the time
an nhs health check at the age of 45 so they can discuss the menopause with their doctor. heartbreakfor the home nations as both scotland and wales fail to qualify for the women s world cup. a cold start the day in the southeast with patchy thrust, the rest of us do not have a skull to start as yesterday. with apache frost, the rest of us do not have as cold start as yesterday. it s wednesday 12th october. our main story. the value of the pound has fallen sharply after the bank of england confirmed it won t extend an emergency financial support package beyond this friday. the measures were launched nearly two weeks ago because of the turmoil prompted by the chancellor s mini budget. our economics editor, faisal islam reports. the problems in uk financial markets are not solved. the bank of england has repeatedly stepped in to help the pensions industry since chancellor kwasi kwarteng s controversial mini budget. but the message from governor andrew bailey to the bbc is tha
on defending this madness and go ahead with her kamikaze budget? as liz truss arrived for her weekly audience with the king tonight, the king greeted her with dear oh dear . we ll have the latest on the talks in washington and the questions raised by the prime minister s words today. also tonight. a court is told that a nurse accused of the murder of seven babies sent a sympathy card to the parents of one of her victims. blood supplies in england are at a critically low level the nhs says that staffing shortages are mainly to blame. and in tonight s football, salah scores the fastest hat trick in champions league history as liverpool crush rangers at ibrox. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. one of english rugby s most famous names is suspended from the premiership wasps on the verge of administration. good evening. the prime minister has insisted she will not cut public spending to pay for a multi billion pound package of tax cuts. experts say the impl
trump also getting thumbs down from the majority of voters or 61% saying he should not run again either. let s bring in mark penny s chairman of the harris poll served as an advisor to both bill and hillary clinton. mark good to see you. so first i want to talk about this wrong track number, 70%. have you ever seen at that bad number one? ns is all about economics, the economy, inflation or something larger going on? and split about economics. liberal rarely seen 70% say they re on track. i have never seen bigots personally, economically worse off today. you may member the famous reagan question are you better off today? and when you look at this this is far greater a percentage saying they are worse off then during the economic dislocation of the pandemic. so the inflation, recession, high interest rates olivet has combined to create a very, very unhappy electric who sees gas prices and food prices skyrocketing and making them fall behind. are not even in a recession for r
[dramatic music] breaking news out of georgia. Democrat Raphael Warnock and democrat jon ossoff has won the Senate Runoff election. This is the new georgia. This is a state that is changing like the country is changing. The big factor in black voters matter, its the new georgia project. You have black genius and grassroots genius on display, and black joy. We vote all we win we vote all we win welcome to the new georgia. Welcome to the blue georgia. Republicans taking another step to prevent what they believe is voter fraud at the polls. 48 states have introduced at least 389 bills to restrict voting. Both of those senate seats flipped from red to blue, and so republicans in georgia want to make sure that that doesnt happen again. Anytime a Political Party abuses their power to actually put laws in place so that whoever does not vote for them, they can prevent them from voting, that in itself is political corruption. We are fighting for our lives we are fighting for our votes we are fi