Of the build up to tonights crucial president ial debate in philadelphia, but were going top start this hour with the first real test of authority for the new uk government. This is the scene in the House Of Commons where mps are about to Vote are voting on the plan to scrap Winter Fuel payments for millions of Pensioners. Its been hugely controversial. It means that more than Nine Million Pensioners will no longer be eligible for up to 300 pounds this winter. Lets go stright to westminster and our deputy political editor, Vicky Young. Westminster and our deputy good westminster and our deputy afternoon. Just set Th Scene good afternoon. Just set the scene for hours. Mps have started that Vote and there is No Doubt it is going to be an awkward afternoon for the government but it is worth emphasising that this new Labour Government has a huge majority so there is no chance of them losing their state which means that this change will go ahead but, as you say, it has proved pretty controv
Just dont know what the situation is. We will either have a flight back into manchester and be fortunate are all things could. You know, things could collapse in the next couple of days or hours and we have nothing. Iran reacts defiantly in response to the us sending troops and Missile Defence systems to saudi arabia and the uae, after last weeks attack on saudi oilfacilities. There have been dozens of arrests at the latest anti government, yellow vest protests in the french capital paris. 75 years on from the battle of arnhem a mass parachute drop is taking place in the netherlands, to mark what was known as operation Market Garden in world war two. And coming up, click investigates whether Technology Companies bear responsibility for the opiod crisis in the us thats in half an hour here on bbc news. The labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has quashed an attempt to oust tom watson as his deputy following an angry backlash from mps. The grassroots group, momentum, had tabled a motion at the
if we can negotiate a deal this week, it can be, but otherwise we ll have to look at what campaigns we are going to put on going forward, and we think that other unions are going tojoin us in this dispute on the railway, and more broadly in society. it wasn t the employers that called the strike action. we wanted rmt. .. we wanted to do reform earlier. they have been discussing it with us, but they have not came forward with meaningful reform. in other news ukraine is on verge of losing control of the key city of severodonetsk, its troops have been pushed back to just one factory there. allegations of corruption and sexual abuse at the united nations whistleblowers call for an independent panel to investigate. one, two, three, four. dance music plays. star dj fatboy slim holds a music workshop to help people with mental health problems. and prince william. the duke of cambridge turns a0 today. hello, good afternoon. deserted stations, empty tracks, and millions of frustra
he has said discussions are ongoing about a humanitarian pause in the fighting, to get aid to civilians into gaza. but fighting in gaza is intensifying and communications are down for a third time. our correspondent rushdi abualouf in gaza has told us that tonight s bombardment seems to be the most intense since the beginning of the war, targeting the northwest of the gaza strip in particular. i also want to bring you an update from the israel defence forces on twitter saying the israeli military says air raid sirens sounding across central israel due to rockets being fired from gaza. i ve said many israelis are running to bomb shelters. these are from the israel defence forces. once we verify those and can bring in more on that update, we will. in terms of the visit of antony blinken. at the end of his visit to iraq antony blinken spoke to the media about the possibility of humanitarian pause to hostilities, that he said would advance several priorities, including getting
yorkshire in the north of england, not far from the constituency of prime minister rishi sunak and he is among some of the bigwigs, the high profile politicians who have been campaigning here so he himself has been here campaigning to help the conservative efforts but we ve also had the leader of the opposition, keough starmer, plus some other high profile mps as well. keir starmer. why have labour and the conservatives thrown so much at this? i the conservatives thrown so much at this? ~ , , .,, this? i think this is the most important this? i think this is the most important and this? i think this is the most important and most - this? i think this is the most i important and most interesting of the three by elections we have coming up on thursday. i would say that, wouldn t i? fascinating for a number of reasons. rishi sunakjust 60 miles up the road in richmond, his constituency, and they have a 20,000 lead in selby and ainsty so it ll be fascinating to see what happens. the