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critical tory mps — and the public? also tonight. the energy regulator ofgem warns of a "significant risk of gas shortages" this winter. the man accused of murdering nine—year—old olivia pratt korbel appears in court in liverpool. cheers for the king and queen consort on their first public engagement since the end of the period of royal mourning. coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel: there's always pride at stake in the east midlands derby, but there could be jobs on the line as well, as leicester face nottingham forest. good evening and welcome to t...

indonesia mourns the 125 people lost in a stampede during a football match. explosions on the frontline in eastern ukraine, as its soldiers battle for every inch of territory. we have to be careful here. we've been told there is a russian sniper operating from that direction. for the troops here, this is a grind — day and night — a hard battle to hold this position and stop the russians from pushing into bakhmut. and they came in all shapes, sizes and costumes — more than 40,000 runners have taken part in this year's london marathon. good evening. the government should have "la...

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Tax credits and benefits won't be increased in line with inflation but earnings instead. instead. that is worth 5.5 billion a year, but difficult during a cost of living crisis. or long—term investle could be cut back but that was the backbone of the promise to level up. it could rival the austerity package. the new chancellor has decided to stop digging the hole created at the mini budget, but how the fill the one created in the public finances remains unclear. let's get more now from our political editor, chris mason, at the conservative party conference in birmingham. chris. we have had t...

Needed. but this does also raise some challenges because hard numbers need some clear policies and we also heard from the prime minister that there wouldn't be any tax rises to fill any fiscal holes. that they want growth to do some of the job but that is down to the independent forecasters to decide whether the plans will generate enough growth. so you're left with spending cuts and considerable spending cuts. we don't know exactly how much but somewhere between a view tens of billions of pounds and several tens of billions of pounds, depending on all those factors that i identified. that is ...