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good evening and welcome to bbc news. "it's been a tough day" — that's how the chancellor began his speech to the party faithful at the conservative party conference this afternoon. it follows a dramatic u—turn this morning when the government suddenly dropped its plan to scrap the 45p top rate of income tax. only yesterday, the prime minister had insisted the tax cut would stay — except in scotland. but now kwasi kwarteng says criticism of the measure had become a "huge distraction" that had "drowned out" other measures announced in the government's so—called mini budgetjust...

and the duchess of sussex tells a us magazine that just existing was enough to upset the dynamics of the royal hierarchy. and coming up: we'll hearfrom one gardener who's successfully grown the world's longest cucumber. it's a lot of fun growing a giant vegetable. you can compete notjust in the uk, you can compete around the world. it's incredible. the united nations has launched an emergency appeal to help pakistan deal with devastating floods. the country's prime minister has said the floods are the worst in the country's history. provinces in the south by the provinces in the sout...

florida by midweek or so. so we'll be talking about this for a couple of days, early part of next week especially. so this starting small, 35 mile per hours, gusts to 45, moving west-northwest at 15. we already have tropical storm watches, hurricane watches in effect. the water is very warm in the caribbean as well as the gulf of mexico, so this is going to provide the storm with a ripe environment to thrive. we are going to see this storm intensify rapidly once it gets into the gulf of mexico, and that's the huge concern. this could be a category one storm as it crosses over cuba an...

attempts to overturn the 2020 election. it's the most aggressive step, perhaps, taken by donald trump to assert executive and attorney-client privileges to keep witnesses from cooperating with that investigation. how this fight is resolved could determine whether the firewall around donald trump falls, opening the flood gates about what aides and lawyers were telling him on and around january 6 and what decisions he was making. this comes as the january 6 committee is about to hold its first public hearing in more than two months. that's going to happen next wednesday. it could be th...

senator lindsey graham, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. senator, you are deep in the political trenches with donald trump, and right now that looks like a pretty unhealthy place to be. does it feel that way to you? no. if you're a republican, it's a good place to be because he's very popular among republicans. emerson college, not exactly, you know, a right—wing polling firm, has trump up in pennsylvania and some of the swing states, so this election coming up in 80 days, they want to make it about trump. republicans want to make it about a failed presidency of biden and ...