today at one: after turmoil on the financial markets, pressure grows on the prime minister to rethink her tax—cutting plans. in office for fewer than a0 days, but liz truss faces calls to change course or perhaps be forced out — a move a cabinet colleague warns against. i think that changing the leadership would be a disastrously bad idea, notjust politically, but also economically. and this lunchtime, downing street has insisted there will be no more u—turns on the mini budget. also on the programme... fewer operations are being carried out by the nhs in england as the waiting list for treatment hits a record high. the metropolitan police is investigating more than 600 domestic and sexual abuse claims against its own staff.

the ukrainian fighters who defended the mariupol steelworks until they had to surrender to russia — we hear the story of one of them on his release. when i look at this, it actually reminds me of me, because it's the exact same as my glasses. and the young people hoping to see more emojis that look like them. and coming up on the bbc news channel, liverpool's 7—1 champions league win at rangers might be the result that galvanises them after a poor start to the premier league season, withjurgen klopp saying it's lifted the mood. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. downing street is insisting this lunchtime there will be no further u—turns,

despite pressure intensifying on the prime minister to rethink her tax—cutting plans following last month's mini—budget. last week, the government abandoned its plan to abolish the 45p rate of tax for top earners. but senior conservatives have continued to voice grave concerns at liz truss�*s tax—cutting agenda without explaining how she will balance the books. one mp last night accused the prime minister of "trashing blue—collar conservatism". downing street says its policy is the right one for growth. our political correspondent jonathan blake reports. just five weeks into the liz truss government, these are difficult days for the conservatives at westminster. mps are in revolt over the not so many budget and there is pressure on the prime minister's policies and her position. from a cabinet minister this morning, a call for calm. we cabinet minister this morning, a call for calm-— cabinet minister this morning, a callfor calm. ~ ., ., , call for calm. we have to recognise that we need _ call for calm. we have to recognise that we need to _ call for calm. we have to recognise that we need to bring _ call for calm. we have to recognise that we need to bring certainty - call for calm. we have to recognise that we need to bring certainty to l that we need to bring certainty to the markets. i think that changing

the markets. i think that changing the leadership would be a disastrously bad idea, notjust politically, but also economically. we are absolutely going to stay focused on growing the economy. the chancellor kwasi kwarteng is in the us, meeting officials at the international monetary fund as mps back home call openly for changes to the sweeping tax cuts he announced last month. ., ., , the sweeping tax cuts he announced last month. . . , , , last month. there are many, myself included, last month. there are many, myself included. who _ last month. there are many, myself included, who believe _ last month. there are many, myself included, who believe it _ last month. there are many, myself included, who believe it is _ last month. there are many, myself included, who believe it is quite - included, who believe it is quite possible that he will simply have to come forward with a further rowing back on the tax announcements. i think it is better to have looked at this more — think it is better to have looked at this more carefully in the context of what _ this more carefully in the context of what has happened over the last few weeks— of what has happened over the last few weeks and say, i think we got some _ few weeks and say, i think we got some of— few weeks and say, i think we got some of this wrong and his tax cuts need _ some of this wrong and his tax cuts need to— some of this wrong and his tax cuts need to he — some of this wrong and his tax cuts need to be introduced another time. it is need to be introduced another time. it is indeed — need to be introduced another time. it is indeed a topic of conversation around _ it is indeed a topic of conversation around the — it is indeed a topic of conversation around the tea _ it is indeed a topic of conversation around the tea rooms _ it is indeed a topic of conversation around the tea rooms of _ it is indeed a topic of conversation around the tea rooms of the - it is indeed a topic of conversationl around the tea rooms of the house it is indeed a topic of conversation . around the tea rooms of the house of commons, _ around the tea rooms of the house of commons, because— around the tea rooms of the house of commons, because we _ around the tea rooms of the house of commons, because we can _ around the tea rooms of the house of commons, because we can all- around the tea rooms of the house of commons, because we can all do - around the tea rooms of the house of commons, because we can all do the | commons, because we can all do the rough _ commons, because we can all do the rough maths — commons, because we can all do the rough maths and _ commons, because we can all do the rough maths and see _ commons, because we can all do the rough maths and see that _ commons, because we can all do the rough maths and see that it's- commons, because we can all do the rough maths and see that it's very i rough maths and see that it's very difficult _ rough maths and see that it's very difficult. , ., , .,

difficult. there is anguish, anger and downright _ difficult. there is anguish, anger and downright despair _ difficult. there is anguish, anger and downright despair among i and downright despair among conservative mps about the government's position. the fact that a cabinet minister has warned publicly against a leadership challenge shows how serious things are for liz truss. a move against her looks unlikely for now, but there is no doubt the prime minister faces a fight to salvage her economic plan. labour doesn't by the government's argument that there are global factors government's argument that there are globalfactors behind government's argument that there are global factors behind the government's argument that there are globalfactors behind the recent turmoil. global factors behind the recent turmoil. , ., . turmoil. they have crashed the economy. _ turmoil. they have crashed the economy. they _ turmoil. they have crashed the economy, they have _ turmoil. they have crashed the economy, they have sent - turmoil. they have crashed the - economy, they have sent mortgage and prices sky—high. they have damaged the uk's reputation on the world stage and we are left paying the price. the tory crisis, made in downing street. for price. the tory crisis, made in downing street.— price. the tory crisis, made in downing street. for now, downing street insists _ downing street. for now, downing street insists there _ downing street. for now, downing street insists there will _ downing street. for now, downing street insists there will be - downing street. for now, downing street insists there will be no - downing street. for now, downing| street insists there will be no more u—turns on the many budget before the chancellor's statement at the end of the month, and that the prime minister's sole focus is on delivering economic growth. and jonathan's in westminster. the mood you have described is clearly febrile. what will happen

now? ., ., clearly febrile. what will happen now? ., , clearly febrile. what will happen now? ., now? from a purely practical point of view, now? from a purely practical point of view. lots _ now? from a purely practical point of view, lots of _ now? from a purely practical point of view, lots of conservative - now? from a purely practical point of view, lots of conservative mps i of view, lots of conservative mps and others here at westminster are struggling to see how the government's position can hold, given that they have said they will take forward all the measures remaining in the chancellor's many budget and that they are not going to cut public spending to pay for those billions of pounds' worth of tax cuts and that they want to reduce borrowing and bring the debt down in what they say is the medium term. so given all of that, there is no surprise that there is continued speculation of that at some point, the chancellor and prime minister will have to bow to pressure and perhaps scrap or at least pause or delay some of the measures announced by the chancellor last month when he stands up on the 31st of october to flesh out those plans alongside forecasts from the office for budget responsibility about the impact they will have on the economy. but as you have heard, as of this lunchtime, downing street insists that there will be no more u—turns and that the

prime minister is focused on taking forward her plan to grow the economy. but i am told by downing street in the last few minutes that that position still stands, so watch this space. that position still stands, so watch this sace. , ., ., ., . ., ~ the waiting list for routine nhs operations and treatment in england has hit seven million for the first time. this includes surgery for things like hip and knee replacements, and cataracts. it comes as the nhs continues to struggle to return services to pre—pandemic levels. nhs figures released this morning also show that nearly 400,000 people have waited over a year for these procedures. but there is also some positive news. over the last year, 2.8 million people received a check for cancer — that's an increase of almost a fifth compared to before the pandemic. our health correspondent sophie hutchinson reports. i haven't always been able to walk as far as i'd like to walk,

specifically due to the hernia, especially early on when it was very painful. marcus has been waiting for a hernia operation for close to four years. during that time, he's received just one letter from the hospital. now it's more about how it looks, how it appears, it's obvious now when i'm standing up and walking. i can't get away from it. i can't conceal it any more, so i tend to stay home. a record one in every eight people in england is currently waiting for nhs treatment, but the number of operations being carried out is 12% lower than it was before the pandemic, and outpatient clinics and minor procedures are down by 4%, according to bbc analysis, and that is the reason the backlog is growing. surgeons say operating theatres are being left unused because of staff shortages, a lack of beds and complications relating to covid. very often, it's not clear

until the morning of the operation as to whether it's possible. there are times when there aren't the necessary beds available, particularly if critical care is needed, an intensive care bed, for instance, and that is terrible for patients because they come into hospital expecting to have their operation and if there aren't the necessary resources there to support that then unfortunately, they have to cancel it on the day. and it's notjust treatments where there are long waits. today's figures show only 71% of patients in english a&es were seen within four hours in september — the worst on record. senior nhs england officials say there is no doubt they are under huge pressure. we are making progress. in august we undertook more cancer checks than ever before, a quarter of a million, and since february when we started our recovery programme for long waiters for treatments, we have reduced the number over 18 months by a quarter. the nhs was once seen as the most efficient health service in the world, but experts say it

can't work miracles. the nhs is trying to be as efficient as it can and maximise its resources, but i think you have to fundamentally look at the resources. compared to other countries we still have fewer doctors per head, fewer nurses per head, far fewer hospital beds per head, so even the most efficient system in the world can only get through so much work if it hasn't got the fundamental resources it needs. the government says it's creating surgical hubs and diagnostic centres in communities to help tackle the backlog, but others have described the record of 7 million people on the waiting list as a grim milestone and warned it will be worse when winter begins to bite. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. a court has heard that a nurse charged with the murder of seven babies wrote, "i am evil, i did this", on a piece of paper found by police in her house. lucy letby is also charged with attempting to murder ten other babies at the countess of chester hospital, in 2015 and 2016.

she denies 22 charges in all. judith moritz has been following this case and we can talk to her now. evidence cited in court in this case is distressing. tell us what happened today. yes, this morning thejury listened to the prosecution wrapping up their opening statement. they were shown some images on a screen. we learned that after lucy letby was arrested, the police had searched her house and they discovered various writings, various pieces of paper she had written things on. the jury were shown one of those notes. they heard that amongst the writing, she had protested her innocence, she had asked occasionally things like, i have not done anything wrong, there is no evidence to support this. she showed frustration that she wasn't being allowed back onto the neonatal units, but one note in particular was shown on the screens inside courtroom number seven on green

notepaper with black scrawled handwriting. the prosecution said to the jury, handwriting. the prosecution said to thejury, this note said on it "i don't deserve to live, i killed them on purpose because i'm not good enough. i'm a horrible, evil person." and in capital letters, "i'm evil, i did this". there are other writings on the same piece of paper including things like "i will never have children or marry, i will never have children or marry, i will never know what it's like to have a family, i haven't done anything wrong" and in capital letters "hope, panic, fear". after thejury saw that note, it was the turn of lucy letby�*s defence to open their case. the defence case he said it was the writings of somebody demonstrating anguish, not guilt. he said the defence case will largely rest on the medical evidence here. he said, what we have is coincidence. he said anyone who approaches this case as a done deal has got it very wrong. the case will continue this afternoon.

judith moritz reporting. postal workers have become a further strike over pay and conditions in the run—up to christmas. royal mail says it needs to modernise its service because it is already losing £1 million a day, but the communication workers union says it will mean a poorer service for customers and threatens jobs. there have been fresh missile strikes overnight near the ukrainian capital kyiv and on the southern city of mykolaiv. it comes as 1a nato countries, including the uk, pledged to send advanced anti—aircraft weapons to ukraine. well, earlier in the conflict, another city in the south, mariupol, was devastated by repeated russian bombardment, and a core of ukrainian defenders spent weeks besieged in the azovstal steelworks. after being told to surrender, they were taken captive by russia, and then unexpectedly released in a prisoner exchange last month. our kyiv correspondent hugo bachega has met one of them and joins us now from kyiv.

reeta, i think few believed that those fighters would ever be allowed to return to ukraine. many of them were members of the azov regiment and were described by russia as neo—nazis and terrorists. but there was big surprise last month when the war included a major prisoner swap. one of the prisoners has been telling me how he was treated in a russian prison and the destruction in mariupol. they've been destroying civilian blocks. we've seen this with our own eyes, and we were like... it's hard to understand why they are doing this. we were just doing ourjob and trying to make it as best as possible. we had nowhere to retreat because we were encircled. thousands of our comrades, little brothers, they are still captured. we should not ask the people who return from being captured,

who return back about the details. because the details, well, this is obvious things. obvious things, that people who are captured, they are tortured by the russians. i have just been in solitude for four months, in like, relatively normal conditions. i know this from the guys in olenivka — with each new week, their conditions became worse and worse and worse. you canjust find some videos on the web about the conditions in russian prisons, just for the regular prisoners, and multiply this by two, and these will be the conditions in a russian prison camp for prisoners of war. they don't give a care about the rules of war. about the geneva committee statements. they don't give a care about the lives of the people. most people thought that you'd never be released. did you think that

you could be released? when i was captured, it was a very big chance for us to stay in russia and never come back. it was extremely huge. so, you were prepared for that? yeah. we were prepared. was there any moment that you just sort of had lost hope that you would be released and returned to ukraine? you should never lose your hope, but the hope should not obstruct your vision and perception of reality. how was it being with family for the first time? it was... well, after all this time, it is happy to see my beloved ones. it is happy to see my friends, it is happy to see the people who have been waiting for me, but it is a bittersweet moment because i know that hundreds of families are still waiting for their warriors. the russians are still torturing them, still keeping them in inhumane conditions, and that is why it is our top priority right now, to restore ourselves to return to the battlefield, and we have to return as a solid unit, because we have to take

our boys back. our top story this lunchtime... downing street insists there will be no more u—turns on the many budget as pressure grows on the secretary of state to rethink her tax—cutting plans after turmoil on the financial markets. and coming up — we ask why more than 100 unaccompanied child migrants have gone missing since crossing the channel and arriving in england. coming up on the bbc news channel — there are calls for a streamlined ten—team premiership, as rugby union's financial crisis deepens, with wasps likely to follow worcester into administration and out of the league. the bbc has learned that the metropolitan police is investigating more than 600 allegations of sexual or domestic abuse against its own officers.

the force established a special unit to examine possible criminal or unprofessional behaviour after a series of scandals, including the murder of sarah everard by a serving officer. our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds, has been given exclusive access to see some of the work currently in progress. good morning, everybody. happy monday. it's not a glamorous title, but the met�*s new complaints resolution unit has been set up to improve the force's reputation by resolving disputes with the public. just to say there was a big public order incident in dalston. it was very instantaneous. when our cameras were allowed in, this had just happened, after routine checks of scooter riders. i literally happened to be in the area and saw on social media there was a police operation. someone was arrested at a moped event for immigration offences and he was wanted missing for immigration. the police had restrained

someone on the ground. batons were already out by that point. what are you doing? where there was the video of them punching him repeatedly. there was a lot of it in the press and on social media. there was nothing i saw that justified the use of force that i witnessed against members of the public. vicki lewis refers the case for an independent investigation. it's really easy to take a short clip of an event that may have taken a lot longer in reality and may have been 20 minutes and the clip is two minutes. you don't see all of the surrounding circumstances. i think you can't ever know what it's like to be in that situation. eventually the officer was found to have no case to answer, but the met says it's taking a swifter, tougher approach to police wrongdoing because of horrific incidents like this. a serving metropolitan police officer has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman disappeared...

sarah everard's murder. the big issue now is abusive behaviour within the police. we've gone through the counter allegations, as it were, and what he said, and what your response is. so the met set up another unit to investigate its own officers. this team has specifically been brought together to focus on the offences of domestic abuse and sexual offences, where the offender is alleged to be a police officer or a police member of staff. these are the physical assaults and the controlling behaviour, do you see what i mean? this is distressing work, but... i hear many officers say i want to come and work on your team, i want to do this. they are disgusted by these officers' behaviours. they are horrified, in fact. someone that i worked with, text messages beganjust being quite familiar. this young officer met us in uniform to discuss her experience of blowing

the whistle within the met. and then it sort of progressed to being more sexual. she reported her concerns to the new domestic and sexual offences team, recruited as experts in investigating abuse. it just felt like they asked the right questions that made you feel like what you were saying was valid. annette, how many allegations are being dealt with in the met right now? currently, we have around 400 allegations. 400 allegations. that seems like a lot. it does. it really does, and there's been an increase recently of reporting. the new met commissioner, sir mark rowley, has made rooting out abusive officers a top priority. scotland yard is braced for more bad headlines. tom symonds, bbc news. and we want you to know that that report was filmed by the bbc�*s raeph ballantyne, whose death was announced earlier this week. raeph has been described by colleagues as one of the most talented, creative, and considerate

shoot—editors of his generation. and indeed he was. the conspiracy theorist alex jones has been ordered to pay over £860 million in damages afterfalsely claiming the 2012 sandy hook school shooting was a hoax. 26 people were killed, including 20 children. the families of eight victims, and an fbi agent, alleged the radio host's misinformation led to a decade of harassment and death threats. our north america correspondent peter bowes reports. ladies and gentlemen of the jury, please listen to your verdict as it has been accepted and recorded. an emotional response by the families to this colossal award of damages. they took alex jones to court after he claimed for years the shooting at sandy hook school was a staged government plot to take guns from americans, and that no one had died. the right—wing radio host called parents of the victims "crisis actors", but he now acknowledges

that the attack was real. the jurors decided that he must pay millions in damages for promoting the lie that the shooting was a hoax. the families told the court they'd suffered years of harassment, including death threats. robbie parker's six—year—old daughter emilie was killed in the attack. our lawyers helped give me the strength to finally find my voice in the fight and to stand up to what had been happening to me for so long, and i let my voice be taken away from me and my power be taken away from me. as thejurors' decision was being announced, alexjones called the verdict delusional and mocked the outcome of the case. outside the court his lawyer told reporters they would be appealing. my heart goes out to the families. we live in divided times. they've been weaponised and used for political purposes in this country,

in my view, and today is a very, very, very dark day for freedom of speech. it seems unlikely the families will receive much if any of the damages ordered by the jury. alexjones and his company have filed for bankruptcy in texas and he still faces a third defamation trial. peter bowes, bbc news. more than 100 unaccompanied child migrants have gone missing since crossing the channel and arriving in england. they have disappeared after being put up in hotels by the home office. charities are now warning that the children are at risk of being trafficked by gangs. sima kotecha reports. the waters that would carry them to a better life. at least, that's what they hoped. some charities believe the reality is far different, with children at risk of being manipulated by evil gangs once they get here. across these pebbles walk lonely children who've risked

everything to get this far. some have fled war and persecution. but what are their next steps? to a temporary hotel, with the risk that this brief stepping stone could lead to a new, unknown peril. foi data obtained by the bbc shows that from those young people placed in hotels, 116 are missing. one of them has been missing since january. i mean, if we don't know where they are, they could be dead, they could be being criminally exploited or sexually exploited behind closed doors, and nobody knows what's happening to them. i was in a lorry and then i came here. rishan fled from sudan several years ago. she was just 17 when she arrived here and is worried these children could be trafficked. if i was being in a hotel, yeah, and nobody to talk to and the trauma that for me

to come to here and the terrifying journey, smugglers will say to them, if you go to this place you have to pay us back, you have to pay, otherwise i'll kill your mum or your family. some 65 charities have said the problem lies with the children being placed in hotels by the home office, arguing they aren't safe. this started happening injuly last year, when some councils ran out of suitable accommodation. but some say the government has little choice, at a time when resources are stretched. the alternative is to put them in secure accommodation and treat them like prisoners, which we don't want to do, and that would not be appropriate at all. so, it's a sheer weight of numbers issue, which is why we have these sorts of problems. but that's no excuse for not properly having the details and keeping the tabs on the whereabouts of as many of those people as possible, and particularly unaccompanied children. the local government association says ministers need to act urgently to stop using hotels and is working

tirelessly to find suitable placements. when a child goes missing, you imagine the worst, and when they've disappeared in unfamiliar surroundings they could be even more vulnerable. sima kotecha, bbc news. the government's approach to its plans to deport some asylum seekers to rwanda is "inherently unlawful and unfair", the high court has been told today. in a hearing brought by the charity asylum aid, the court was told that the "tight timescales" involved in the policy mean there is a risk that people may be removed without effective access to courts. we can speak now to our correspondent dominic casciani, who is outside the high court for us now. tell us more. well, this is the second part of our enormous great big legal fight about the random plans. last time we heard

about the general principles, now we are getting into the meat of whether or not red not how people are being selected for the flights and we have learned today the home office has a plan to select migrants and potentially put them on a flight to rwanda within three weeks of them arriving on the chilly shores of the kent coast from there to the equatorial landscape of rwanda. three weeks. no, what one asylum charity is saying today is this is inherently unfair because it doesn't give people enough time to mount their argument about why they should stay in the uk. i've got to be honest, they've had a pretty rough ride today from the judges and court who say they are very sceptical people can't explain to the home office why they shouldn't be put on the flights. thejudgment office why they shouldn't be put on the flights. the judgment in this case and the other part of whether or not rwanda is lawful is going to come may be at the earliest in a couple of weeks' time.— couple of weeks' time. dominic, thank yom _ now, a teenage girl is on a mission to transform the way in which spectacle wearers

are depicted on emojis — saying that glasses are presently always portrayed as geeky. tim muffet has the story. the nerd face emoji. the glasses and the teeth, they've got a weird kind of grin about them that for some reason they've decided to associate with a nerd. why does this say nerd? obviously, the glasses. is that fair? no, not really, because not everyone who wears glasses are nerds. one little boost of confidence... it's also annoyed 13—year—old lowri. it's not very nice for somebody who wears glasses, especially if it's their first time wearing glasses, to find an emoji that is a nerd, and be like, "oh, now, iwear glasses. am i that?" she has glasses and she's really relatable. when it comes to changing attitudes towards glasses, lowri has achieved impressive results. please may you make a disney princess which has glasses. when she was nine, she wrote to disney.

i think that would help people to know that they are beautiful, no matter what. three years later, encanto was released. disney says that lowri's letter helped inspire the character of mirabel, the first disney princess to wear specs. hello, everybody, i'm lowri. now lowri has a new mission — not to ban the nerd face emoji, but to have the option of adding glasses to others. she's hoping for support from her schoolmates. anyone can submit a proposalfor a new emoji. designs are either approved or rejected by the unicode consortium, a not—for—profit organisation based in california. the nerd face emoji was approved in 2015. lowri's written to the unicode consortium, asking it to consider her plans. i'd love to see the option to add glasses to face emojis, similar to changing skin colour or hair colour, as you've already made available.

lowri has certainly won over these students at her school. would it make a difference, do you think? yeah, it makes it seem like the emoji has actually been sent by me. it's not representing a nerdy face, it's representing - a smile and a happy face. ijust think it will make a big difference, because when i look at this, it actually reminds me of me. lowri doesn't know if her letter will have an impact, but if it does, it will be another very impressive achievement. tim muffett, bbc news, nottingham. time for a look at the weather. here's chris fawkes. we've got a mixture of weather around this afternoon. there will be large parts of the uk that have blue sky eyes like we see word see here in conwy. there is plenty of calm weather but further south—east the overnight rain has been dragging its feet across the extreme south coast

of sussex and kent, you might find a few spots of rain left over here and