gunfire. the iranian authorities say four inmates dead after a fire at a prison in the capital tehran is now under control as protests continue. more than a thousand paddington bears and other teddies left by the public in memory of the late queen elizabeth are to be sent to charity. good afternoon. welcome if you have justjoined us whether you are watching in the uk or around the world. we begin with the political and economical situation facing the uk. the uk s new chancellor, jeremy hunt, will hold talks with the prime minister liz truss later, as the government fights to restore economic credibility. speaking to the bbc, mr hunt warned some taxes will increase and all government departments will be expected to find additional savings. posting online today, the prime minister has said she s going to do things differently in her quest for economic growth promising she will always act in the national interest . let s talk more about this to our political corresponde
polish president. he also spoke with the nato secretary general. they are meeting in brussels today to discuss the article 4 treaty. you do hear a lot about article 5. article 4 is the treaty of mutual conference discussing a path forward, discussing what countries know, what countries don t know and certainly president biden will want to be in very close touch with his representatives on the ground there, but this is a very high stakes situation around there s no question president biden will want this resolved fairly quickly so this isn t sort of hanging over the discussion isn t hanging over the conference. he will be back in washington later this week and we will hear more from him at some point on that. thank you, kevin. let s go next to melissa bell in brussels where the nato hq is there. we understand a nato plane had tracked this missile. do you know what information that nato has, whether or not
and i very strongly believe that. it sounds, chancellor, like you are preparing the country for a period of real hardship when mortgages are going to go up, rents are going to go up and public services are going to be stretched and squeezed again. i mean, this is a return to austerity, isn t it? well, i was in the cabinet in 2010 when we had that first period of austerity. i don t think we are going to have anything like that this time. these meetings this afternoon at chequers. very strong impression this week and that really the person that will be leading the discussion isn t the prime minister, it will be the chancellor. the chancellor. that is right. he has completely the chancellor. that is right. he has completely shredded - the chancellor. that is right. he| has completely shredded already the chancellor. that is right. he - has completely shredded already that don t make everything liz truss stood on. the tax cutting agenda is gone. both he and the prime minister
that s been trying typical pose and successfully imposing all over europe and helping the american system with it in the past couple of years. you know, bob costa, you ve seen up close, you have followed the conservative movement, the history of the conservative movement. it certainly is. we certainly do find ourselves at a strange, strange time in 2018 that a party that worshipped, that worshipped freedom under ronald reagan and not only in america but across the globe, and actually that continue to, the most conservative part of the republican party, what do they call themselves? the freedom caucus. that right now it s not just republicans in washington, you look at poland, vladimir putin is more popular with the rank-and-file republicans across the country than he ever has been. well, joe, the outcry of it in this discussion isn t evident
thursday, friday. everybody said he might be selecting and coming to a conclusion today, but i ve heard your reporting suggesting that he may wait or his aides want him to wait until his aides are back in town. aides wouldn t be surprised if he jumps the gun on his own announcement if he does it today or tomorrow. as they said, when the president has made his pick and he s ready to go, he wants to go. trying to convince him. so much more logic and you have senators back in town and you can have senators there for the rollout and you ll get more attention. in the end, they hope that their clinching argument is the same argument that you will remember they used to keep him from moving the singapore summit up one day and that is you ll get more coverage if you do it that way, sir. an argument that frequently works with him but they told me they can never be sure.