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welcome to the programme. we start in france — big numbers have taken to the streets again — the 11th day of mass protests against the change in pension age in france. let me show you some live pictures, already some debris and lines of riot police stacked up. i have been watching pictures of small charges by those police to push some of the protesters back. this is right in the centre of paris, the 11th day of these mass protests that have spoiled over the last two and a half months as so many people protest against the change in pension age, making it up to 64 from 62. large nu...

deputy foreign minister. the chancellor has brought forward by three weeks a fiscal statement he was to deliver in november, in a bid to reassure the financial markets. tonight with the context, the former labour mp and cabinet minister caroline flint and the republican strategist rina shah. welcome to the programme. the french president, emmanuel macron — who has tried to maintain an open channel with moscow — said today's strikes on ukraine signalled a "profound change" in the conduct of the war. in a televised address, vladimir putin said he personally had ordered the strikes ...

the electric car battery maker britishvolt has gone into administration after hopes of a last—minute bid for the company faded. the collapse raises questions about uk hopes of building a home—grown battery industry. the company, which had plans to build a gigafactory to make the uk start—up had been expecting to build a new 5.8 billion — or $4.7 billion — factory in northumberland, as part of a long—term vision to boost uk manufacturing. well, this promotional video shows what the factory — with a capability to make 300,000 electric batteries a year — would have looke...

the weather front sweeps through. quite a broad area of rain, all of us eventually get rain, but come the afternoon in places like belfast the weather will improve. a wet and windy night out towards the south—east, places like certainly london in for soaking through friday night. this is a broad area of low pressure stretching almost from greenland to scandinavia, so through this area of low pressure we will see a rush of wind pushing in showers, some of them quite heavy out towards the north—west of the uk. despite that, temperatures reaching 19 degrees. some uncertaintyjust how...

richard walker. former cabinet minister andrea leadsom. and the bbc�*s deputy political editor, vicki young. the chancellors�* day began like this. this 45p rate was simply a distraction in our mission to achieve higher growth. a u—turn on the scrapping the 45p top rate of tax — a policy he'd announced in his mini budgetjust 10 days ago. now, in a little under 15 minnutes he'll be addressing the party faithful — to persuade them that he is the man to be trusted with the economy through turbulent times. welcome to politics live in birmingham. andrea led some, after the marke...