thing is that she is addressing the one nation group of conservative mps, that is the centrist people who a lot of whom have been deeply uncomfortable with what liz truss has been saying, she is due to address them at 6pm. will that shore up address them at 6pm. will that shore up support? possibly, if she can convince them that there is now a plan to get the show back on the road. last week, when liz truss it did try to shore up her position by speaking to her on mps, it went disastrously badly. i m not so sure you can predict anything is going to go according to plan. joining me now is douglas mcneill, he has been a special adviser rishi sunak, theresa may and george osborne when in office and continued as a special advisor in thejoint economic unit until september 2022. welcome, thank you very much for joining us. what is going through your mind as you watch today unfold?
plays into the debate here, those who are prone liz truss will say, this is us president, nothing to do with us, why has he got involved in our politics? the other side of the spectrum says, this confirms it was a really bad idea, we should not of done this can we even have the us president telling us we are wrong. it does not shift the debate in westminster but it is a significant moment. ~., , westminster but it is a significant moment. a, , ., moment. martin, still in the front ofthe moment. martin, still in the front of the times- moment. martin, still in the front of the times. obviously moment. martin, still in the front of the times. obviously the - moment. martin, still in the front of the times. obviously the 31st i moment. martin, still in the front| of the times. obviously the 31st is when the key dates we will all be waiting for, but monday evening, the papers say that liz truss will be meeting with her cabinet to discuss economic strategy. meeting with her cabinet to
calling wavering mps to shore up support. meanwhile the times reports borisjohnson s ethics adviser, lord geidt, is demanding an explanation over lockdown parties and threatened to resign over the matter. but the daily mail says the cabinet are backing the prime minister against what it calls reckless rebels trying to remove him. pressure on travel firms from the daily express questioning why 8 billion pounds of covid aid hasn t stopped delays for holiday makers. the guardian shows one of those airport queues but leads on rising violence at gp surgeries, and warnings about soaring demand and staff shortages. the archbishop of canterbury s comments splashed across the mirror. the paper claims he suggested prince andrew should be forgiven over sexual assault allegations, which the prince denies. and celebrations in bradford on the front of the yorkshire post as it s named the uk city of culture 2025
and more where people have just decided they can t sit back and watch any more. we know that there have been a lot of ukrainian students here in poland who have been volunteering day and night, instead of studying and getting ready for upcoming finals because they feel it is important to doing? for their people. we could tell that you about 98,000 people crossed over the border on tuesday alone. wolf. a huge, huge numbers. you have to give the men that were going into ukraine a lot of credit. sara sidner on the border between poland and ukraine. meanwhile, the russian military has released the first casualty figures from the war in ukraine. let s go to our contributor jill dougherty, formerly the moscow bureau chief. she has some details for us. is the suspicion there russia is underestimating the numbers to help shore up support for putin. is that right? reporter: well, that certainly could be, wolf.
further west into some of those countries. and so this is all an attempt to kind of shore up support for them. another thing that they announced yesterday is that the united states will be sending an additional 500 troops to germany, romania, poland and greece and this is, again, more of an attempt to show unity against this russian aggression and demonstrate that when it comes to nato, the u.s. is prepared to defend every inch of that territory. that s another message that blinken has been driving home. if there is an attack or even an unintentional escalation against one of these nato countries, then the united states and nato have an obligation to defend those countries. they re really sending a strong message to russia here and these air defense systems are unlikely to be greeted warmly by russia but the u.s. has, again, emphasized that these are defensive in nature and not offensive, john. natasha bertrand, thank you very much. overnight the mayor of a