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will be elected by next week after a rebellion by conservative mps forced her to quit. the opposition leader labour s sir keir starmer repeats his call for a general election, saying its time for the public to decide. we can t have a revolving door of chaos we can have another experiment on the top of the tory party that is the alternative a stable labour government and the public are entitled to have their say that is why there should be a general election. this makes liz truss the shortest serving uk prime minister ever after being in office for just 44 days. borisjohnson is among mps said to be considering re election. along with rishi sunak. welcome to viewers both in the uk and around the world. the british prime minister, liz truss, has resigned. in a short statement in downing street, ms truss admitted she could no longer deliver the mandate she was elected on last month. her decision followed a meeting with the senior backbencher, sir graham brady, amid an atm ....
hello and welcome. after two months of campaigning, eight candidates and thousands of votes, in just a few hours time either liz truss or rishi sunak will be named the new leader of the conservative party and britain s next prime minister. they ll officially take up that post tomorrow, bringing borisjohnson s three year premiership to an end. our political correspondent iain watson has this report. iam i am always going to respond to support people through it. i support people through it. i would reverse the increase in national would reverse the increase in national insurance. the would reverse the increase in national insurance. national insurance. the nhs will be safe national insurance. the nhs will be safe in national insurance. the nhs will be safe in my national insurance. the nhs will be safe in my hands! - national insurance. the nhs will be safe in my hands! i. will be safe in my hands! i want everybody across our great country want everybody across ....
hello, a very warm welcome to the programme. let s start here in the uk where, in a few hours from now, the next leader of the conservative party and the uk will be announced. we won t officially know who that is until 12:30 bst but we do know for sure that whomever takes the reins will have a monumental task, both economically and politically. rising inflation and the high energy prices will be at the forefront of voters minds, while businesses will be keen to see stability and a commitment to economic growth going forward. our economics editor faisal islam has been looking at some of the immediate pressing issues. this is the economic reality facing the new prime minister. inflation at 10% and heading higher on these official forecasts. it may even go above 15%. five or even ten times target. in the general economy is already falling and heading for a 1990s style recession, according to the bank of england. the core of it all, energy prices. in international markets ....
paid their last respects to mikhail gorbachev, the man who brought the cold war to an end. the death of mikhail gorbachev really does mark the end of an extraordinary era in history. a rare period when russia was opening up to the world. mississippi police charge a man with making terrorist threats after a warning that he d crash a twin engine aeroplane into a us discount store. hello and welcome to bbc news. very good to have you with a s. us. nasa tried and failed again on saturday to get its space launch system vehicle to lift off from florida s kennedy space center. the countdown had to be halted three hours before launch, because of a fuel leak. it s the second postponement in a week. the artemis programme aims to once again send humans to the moon in 2025, but the nasa team has suggested there may now be a significant delay to the project. our science editor, rebecca morelle, sent this update latest from kennedy space center in florida. there s a real sense ....
he s an enemy of the state. you want to know the truth, the enemy of the state is him and the group that control him. hello and welcome to bbc news. the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky, has called for greater european unity in response to russia s use of energy as a weapon. speaking a day after moscow said it would not restart gas exports through the nordstream 1 pipeline, mr zelensky said russia aimed to intimidate and weaken all of europe and was trying to inflict poverty and political chaos in places it can t yet strike with missiles. ukraine s first lady, olena zelenska has been speaking to the bbc s laura kuenssberg. in an interview recorded in kyiv, mrs zelenska said the economic impact of the war in ukraine may be tough on its allies, but although britons are having to count pennies, ukrainians are counting casualties. translation: we hear that energy is getting pricier, - that life s getting pricier, but people should understand that that is not comin ....