at ten — the chancellor says he's totally focused on his plan for growth, despite mounting pressure for a u—turn. kwasi kwarteng says his position on the mini budget hasn't changed — despite criticism of his plans and the financial turmoil. my totalfocus, faisal, is on delivering on the mini budget and making sure, and making sure that we get growth back into our economy. that's the central prize, that's the main focus. and the chancellor says he is not going anywhere. also on the programme... the nurse accused of murdering seven babies wrote a note saying, "i am evil, i did this," but her lawyers

tell a court there's no proof. donald trump is ordered to give evidence to congressional investigators about the storming of the capitol building in washington last year. the ukrainian refugees being housed in the uk as the six month scheme for the first arrivals ends, what now for those still here? and the lost desert island discs with the greats of stage and screen, rediscovered thanks to radio enthusiasts. coming up on the bbc news channel... gold for great britain at the track cycling world championships — their first since 2018, as they beat olympic champions italy in the men's team pursuit. good evening.

the chancellor says he's totally focused on delivering his tax—cutting plans to increase economic growth. he says he is not going anywhere. kwasi kwarteng admitted his mini budget has caused some turbulence in the uk economy but said countries around the world are facing similar problems. he was speaking amid growing pressure to abandon more of his economic plans. but kwasi kwarteng said the government's position has not changed. as pressure intensifies on him as well on liz truss's premiership — afterjust 37 days in the role — the foreign secretary james cleverly said changing the prime minister would be a "disastrously bad idea". here's our political editor, chris mason. the government finds itself in an almighty mess. we've got 15 minutes. i'm trying to find out what conservative mps say they should do, and what ministers say they will do. the chancellor says he's sticking to his plan. our position hasn't changed. i will come up with the medium term

fiscal plan on 31st october as i said earlier in the week, and there will be more detail then. the mood at westminster is moving every hour. what a rough old evening for liz truss. swirls of speculation and intrigue among ministers and backbenchers, with the most senior political figures asking the biggest question — can liz truss survive in the job? the prime minister's been in office for 37 days and this is the kind of chat you would normally associate with the end—game. a bit like among ourfamily and friends, where we'll say some things in front of everyone, but more discreet about other stuff, the same goes for politicians. things said in private don't have as much clout, but when hundreds are unhappy, it matters. i want to read you just a handful of quotes from conservative mps in the last couple of hours.

"it's checkmate, we're stuffed," said one. "it's dire," said another. "they've taken no responsibility whatsoever for hiking people's mortgage rates," said another with real anger. "we're all done for." and, "there's no question in my mind this will have to be junked, there will be a u—turn." this is about as loyal as backbenchers are sounding in public. the messaging has been poor and the optics have been terrible. it's a new government, they have time to put it right, but not time to waste. conservatives mps agree on one thing — that this is a total mess, but they don't agree on anything else. some have told me you've got to bin all of those tax cuts, but others say, yeah, but that's what liz truss stands for and if we bin them, maybe she's finished. some think that's a good idea, others less so. others say what about the help for energy bills, for everyone — maybe it has to be more focused, more targeted at the poor. but that is complicated. some say sack the chancellor,

and others say the prime minister has so spectacularly and so efficiently tanked that she has to go. but they can't agree on who would replace her. i think that changing the leadership would be a disastrously bad idea, notjust politically, but also economically. and we are absolutely going to stay focused on growing the economy. this is a street that oozes two things — power and authority. or at least it usually does. the crux of all of this for liz truss is both of those things are ebbing away, ebbing away to her backbenchers and those volatile financial markets. she is in there trying to grapple them both back. and the blunt truth is neither will return easily — and they may never do. chris mason, bbc news, westminster. the chancellor has again insisted

that he is sticking to his plan and said he would be in hisjob in a month's time and he was going nowhere. he was speaking in washington where he was attending a meeting at the international monetary fund. our economics editor faisal islam is in washington now. from the moment this mini budget was practically being delivered the market reaction was terrible. what's new now is the political reaction, as we've been hearing, and the fact the markets are now assuming that large swathes of the mini budget is not going to happen, but that makes things quite precarious right now because if the u—turn doesn't happen, or if it's smaller than expected, the risk is that the markets are underwhelmed and react accordingly. so when we heard from the chancellor, who wanted to talk about the global origins of this interest rate and inflation crisis, his talks with the us treasury

secretary, he also expected to hear some sense of a reversal coming. —— we also expected to hear. there was none. if a u—turn is being cooked up it's not been done so by the actual chancellor of the exchequer. all smiles for the chancellor from his g7 colleagues. there is a lot going on in the world economy. here's where they work it out, with the germans, the imf, all recorded by the official number 11 photographer, but unusually the uk itself has been on some of the agenda. my totalfocus, faisal, is on delivering on the mini budget. in full? and making sure that we get growth back into our economy. that's the central price. that's the main focus of myjob and the reason why i'm here in washington, the reason you are here, is because we've got imf annuals and everybody is talking about the same problems. but behind closed doors at the g7 the bbc understands there was some diplomatic concern and surprise about how the uk has doubled down on unfunded tax cuts even after the market response. policy measures need

to be well targeted and they need to be temporary. when monetary policy puts a foot on the brakes, fiscal policy should not step on the accelerator, because if it does we are for a very dangerous ride. the markets have been very volatile. today, the rumours of a u—turn saw effective borrowing costs for government falling very sharply and sterling up, but then that was denied. the letters imf have a specific resonance in british economic history and for british chancellors. to be clear, this is not a moment like in 1976, where britain had to ask for some sort of bailout, but it is historically extraordinary to have a chancellor come here meeting the world's finance ministers, selling his budget policies, after they've been hammered by the markets, been met with some scepticism by international colleagues and then, after having sold them, strong rumours back home in london

of them being unpicked. his message today, there will be no u—turns. how long will that last? the chancellor did make one concession to thinking in the markets. what i am going to acknowledge is the fact that it is a very dicey situation globally. that's what people are saying to me. there is nothing specific going on with the uk? there was some turbulence... uk specific? afterthe mini... where i'm sitting here, talking about the global challenges, everybody is focused on inflation, everybody is affected by potential interest rate rises, everybody is affected by the energy price spikes. for the chancellor the mini budget music is still playing. many around the world are wondering for how much longer. faisal islam, bbc news, at the imf in washington. our political editor chris mason is in westminster now.

so huge pressure on both the chancellor and prime minister. what happens now? i chancellor and prime minister. what happens now?— chancellor and prime minister. what happens now? i think a u-turn and a re bi happens now? i think a u-turn and a pretty big one _ happens now? i think a u-turn and a pretty big one is _ happens now? i think a u-turn and a pretty big one is inevitable and - pretty big one is inevitable and until that happens another thing is inevitable and that is a sense of inertia, nothing really being able to change, and that is because and it's a direct consequence of the collapsing authority of the prime minister. when you lose your authority as prime minister you have to be propped up by the views of others and those views are the views of her conservative backbenchers. they are going in to see her. her entire programme for government is on the table and she has to try and work out which bits of it will fly with her party and the markets and the country and which bits won't and the country and which bits won't and the status quo clearly is not an option. the other thing worth bearing in mind is when does that u—turn come, because as things stand the economic statement from the chancellor is meant to be two weeks

on monday. two weeks and a bit is a long time in politics, particularly right now. can we wait that long? in the markets wait that long? can mps wait that long? it doesn't look like it and that brings us to an overall thought, which is that everything, notjust in liz truss's programme for government but her government itself seems like it's on the table at the moment amongst her mps. some are talking about how they might remove her, could they cobble together some alternative government without having to ask conservative members to endorse it? that's how big a moment this is and it's an astonishing one because of course the prime minister has only been in office for a matter of weeks. chris mason in westminster, _ office for a matter of weeks. chris mason in westminster, thank you. there's more update and analysis on bbc news online. that's bbc.co.uk/news. and by using the bbc news app. the jury at the trial of the nurse accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder another ten, has been shown

notes found by police when they searched her house. on one, lucy letby had written, "i am evil, i did this," along with, "i haven't done anything wrong." her lawyers have told the court that she was a dedicated nurse who cared deeply about the babies she looked after. and they say there is no evidence that she harmed them. the 32—year—old denies all the charges. judith moritz reports. suspected of murdering the babies in her care, lucy letby wrote this note which was found after her arrest. it was shown to the jury today. she scrawled, "i haven't done anything wrong." but also, "i'm a horrible, evil person. "i killed them on purpose, because i'm not good enough." and in capital letters, "i am evil, i did this." her defence team accepts that she wrote it and say it's a note of anguish, not of guilt. the note was found when the nurse's house in chester was searched by police. they also found other notes, in which she protested her innocence. the prosecution case

against lucy letby is that her malign hand was at work on the neonatal unit, but her defence team say she was a dedicated nurse who loved herjob, trained hard, and didn't harm the children in her care. outlining his case for the defence, ben myers kc told the jury that anybody who approaches this trial as a done deal has got it very, very wrong. he said that lucy letby faces a litany of allegations that are not proven. using syringes to inject air into babies. no, he said. tampering with bags of fluid. again, no. physically assaulting children, poisoning them, or smothering them. again, no. lucy letby listened from behind the glass partition as mr myers told the jury, you won't get the answers simply by looking at that woman in the dock. this is how she is now, six years after starting to face allegations like this, and you can imagine that must be utterly gruelling for anyone.

the court heard that lucy letby had built her life around the neonatal unit at the countess of chester hospital and was often called in to cover shifts there at short notice. her defence say that in several cases the hospital provided substandard care to babies which she's being blamed for. both sides have finished outlining their cases. lucy letby denies all the charges she faces. her trial is expected to last for six months. judith moritz, bbc news, manchester. donald trump has been ordered to give evidence to the congressional panel investigating the storming of the us capitol onjanuary panel investigating the storming of the us capitol on january the panel investigating the storming of the us capitol onjanuary the six last year. five people were killed and hundreds, including many law enforcement officers, were injured. tonight, the committee said the former president is required to answerfor his actions. former president is required to answer for his actions. our north america editor sarah smith reports.

asa as a violent mob stormed the capitol trying to stop congress confirming the jo trying to stop congress confirming thejo biden as president, elected members were rushed to safety. shown here on this previously unseen footage. here on this previously unseen footaae. , ., , here on this previously unseen footaae. , . , ., . footage. they are putting on tear as footage. they are putting on tear gas masks- _ footage. they are putting on tear gas masks. at the _ footage. they are putting on tear gas masks. at the same - footage. they are putting on tear gas masks. at the same time, i gas masks. at the same time, according _ gas masks. at the same time, according to — gas masks. at the same time, according to witnesses, - gas masks. at the same time, | according to witnesses, donald gas masks. at the same time, - according to witnesses, donald trump was watching the violence on tv from inside the white house and refusing to tell his supporters to back down. they said somebody was shot. it's just horrendous and all at the instigation of the president of the united states. the instigation of the president of the united states.— instigation of the president of the united states. the committee has heard the violence _ united states. the committee has heard the violence was _ united states. the committee has heard the violence was inflamed l united states. the committee has| heard the violence was inflamed by united states. the committee has i heard the violence was inflamed by a trump tweet accusing his vice president of cowardice for not helping him overturn the election. the impact of that tweet was foreseeable and predictable. it further inflamed the mob and provoke them to even greater violence. the

vice president onlyjust escaped the mob and then worked with democrats to get congress reconvened. the committee so donald trump demonstrated he did have control over this violent crowd when he eventually told his supporters to go home. after months of investigation, this committee believes it has shown that what happened on january six was deliberately orchestrated by donald trump himself as he tried illegally to cling onto power. we are illegally to cling onto power. - are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion. and every american is entitled to those answers so we can act now to protect our republic. 50 act now to protect our republic. so in a dramatic twist, the committee have voted to subpoena donald trump himself. donald trump has already taken to social media of course where he is wondering why the committee didn't ask him to testify months ago. he

didn't say how he will respond to the subpoena, he may try to fight it but that is not easy. his former aide steve bannon ignored a subpoena from the same committee and has been found guilty of being in contempt of congress and is awaiting sentencing for that crime. seven million people were waiting for hospital treatment in england — an all time record. nearly 390,000 patients had been waiting for more than a year for planned treatment — nhs england says the number waiting more than 18 months has fallen. almost 33,000 patients waited more than 12 hours in a&e for a bed last month — another record. and 29% of patients had to wait longer than four hours to be seen in a&e. it's a similar story across the uk. in fact, the figures for the other nations were higher. our health editor hugh pym has spent the day at university hospital coventry, to see how staff are coping in the face of mounting pressure.

so my colleagues over here will call you over and we'll get booked in. sharon has one of the keyjobs at the hospital, at the front door of the emergency department. with some patients walking in and others arriving by ambulance, it's herjob to try and manage who goes where. i'm sometimes called the door dragon. it can be soul destroying, it really can. we want the patients to be seen as quickly as possible. we can see on the screen how many ambulances are en route. i know how many spaces there are in the department. and it can, it can be really difficult. it's a typical monday. it's busy. the less serious cases are sent straight to the minors unit. i was probably here for about 20 minutes before i was initially seen by the nurse and i'm just waiting now for x—ray. danny was injured on his stag do last night. the x—ray showed no fracture, but with the wedding days away, the bruising may linger. the aim, where possible, is to keep patients away from the main emergency department.

we're doing an awful lot, a lot of work turning patients around as quickly as possible and not admitting them. so providing better care in the community for them. so redirecting them to those other provisions outside of the hospital walls. we're looking after you in the safest possible place. but those like brian, who've arrived by ambulance, need more tests. he collapsed in the night at home. if we're unable to safely look after you at home, we'll come and talk to you about what that means. yes. i don't want to go - into one of these homes. the hope is that brian won't need admitting today, with pressure on beds mounting. everyone with a green arrow is ready to move to a ward. and the reason that they've not been able to move into a ward is because that bed is currently filled with another patient. despite addressing every single thing that we possibly can, we are still not able to generate capacity in the system to get patients off the back of ambulances. so we've got patients here waiting hours and hours for beds. - is it possible for us to film with a patient moving from here to the ward?

i'm afraid at the moment that's not possible. - we don't have any space _ within the hospital to move anybody. minute by minute, these screens show how the department is coping. three ambulances — in red here — are being held with patients on board. here we can join a meeting with local social care and community health teams coming into the hospital to discuss transferring patients back home. following assessment, the patient can go home, but the family don't want him to go home. for a ward bed to be cleared, a patient needs to have social care in place, or family members willing to take on their care. the daughter is not supporting with that. decisions at this meeting on moving patients out when safe are vital. as more ambulances with more patients arrive, esme, a senior paramedic, is at the front door helping the flow. so it's early afternoon. how do you see it developing later in the day? well, i already know that we're going to be holding more ambulances later.

we've been told that there's very little discharge within the hospital today. at the moment, we've got two holding outside. that's a good day. and what's a bad day? we can have up to 20 ambulances holding outside. it's only october. with flu and covid coming, more difficult months are expected. i think this winter's going to be dreadful. i think it's going to be really hard for patients. i think it'll be really hard for staff. and this is a hospital which invited us in to show the measures they're taking to ease the pressure. but even here, it's a formidable task. hugh pym, bbc news, coventry. since the start of the war in ukraine, almost 100,000 ukrainian refugees have come to the uk under the homes for ukraine scheme which was launched in march. the refugees can come here if they're sponsored by a household who get £350 a month from the government for up to six months. nearly 30,000 ukrainians have been here for that time — according to analysis by bbc news. and now they and their host families are having to make difficult

decisions about the future. the government says they have a number of options — like renting privately orfinding a new sponsor. it says councils have a duty to ensure families are not left without a roof over their heads. our special correspondent lucy manning reports. that's her. that's her, isn't it? yeah. march. sta nsted. safety. hello. claire and her family sponsored elena and her daughter, diana, from irpin. they couldn't let go of each other. but after six months in essex, it is time to go. but to where? what are you going to do? i've got no idea. i won't be kicking them out tomorrow because that would just be completely unreasonable. the government were very much, people of uk, open your doors, we'll be supportive of you.

and they haven't been. my hosting commitment of six months is over. calls to the council and local mp have brought no viable solutions. well, just to let down. it's caused me an enormous amount of stress because i don't want to see my guests homeless. by the same token, for personal reasons, i do need to see an end to them living with us. 22—year—old diana first stayed with claire as a child when she came with the chernobyl children's charity. the return here hasn't been easy. host and guests are pleased the sponsorship happened but there have been strains. is it stressful for you to know that you have to move? yes, the stress for me because i understand i live here, my time has finished and i understand claire because home...little.

elena now has a job and wants to stay in the area but worries rent will be too expensive. across the country, families opened up their homes to ukrainians but by the end of this month, nearly 30,000 will have been here for six months and that number will only rise. in oxfordshire, anna, a mathematician from donetsk, and her two children have been sponsored byjane and her husband, nick. they've been getting on well. but next month will be the end of the sponsorship period. i think we feel guilty because it's hard to end a commitment. if it was recognised at the beginning, we are just refuge, we are not here to provide accommodation for as long as the war goes on for, i think more thinking along those lines would have been helpful. both for our thinking

and the government. they are trying to find new sponsors nearby so the children can stay in their schools. translation: i'm worried that | if we don't find accommodation, i'll be forced to impose a change on my children again. there is a difficult journey ahead of them, they don't have roots, and another change would be a blow for them. the war isn't over. so neither is their exile. lucy manning, bbc news. the bbc has ruled that a batch of the day presenter gary lineker broke impartiality rules in a tweet about the conservative party. in reaction to a story about liz truss urging a boycott of the champions league final in russia, the match of the day host asked if the conservatives

would "hand back their donations from russian donors". the bbc said although mr lineker didn't have to meet the same standards of impartiality as itsjournalists, his high profile meant he had "additional responsibility". the leader of china, xijinping, is set to be given a historic third term in power this weekend. and the effort to boost his image and popularity is in full swing across the country. state media has headlined stories about how poorer towns have been transformed after visits from the president. our correspondent stephen mcdonell has travelled into the heart of rural china in hebei province, an area said to have been lifted out of poverty after president xi's intervention. zhangbei is on show to the chinese people as a model of poverty alleviation. an area transformed after a visit from xi jinping. we see pictures of china's leader now hanging in people's homes. translation: we all shook his hand but it was very warm. _ stories of xi jinping's miraculous advice to poorfarmers

are being retold on tv, like his 2017 trip to zhangbei. translation: how about mini potatoes for a better price? - these are the potatoes which xijinping is said to have suggested they switch to, and which are said to have bought such prosperity to the area. who knows who's idea it really was. it doesn't matter because xi jinping's role in this has now become part of communist party folklore. and just in case the potatoes are not enough, the government is making sure of it with village renovations. translation: the government has built irrigation _ infrastructure and roads. but has life improved for everyone? translation: it's the same. same, same. under xijinping, the chinese government has declared an official

end to extreme poverty. perhaps it all comes down to a definition of what constitutes extreme. certainly if you visit rural areas in china, you will find people whose living standards are well short of those in the city. this woman says in her village their income is from a type of wheat and potatoes. but this year there was a bad drought all summer, meaning no wheat sales and not even enough for them to use. she is proud of her twin boys, now at university. she's borrowed from relatives and has done manual labour to pay for their tuition. translation: i hardly buy anything for myself. - i try my best to save. i have to be strong or they won't make it. xijinping has said eliminating poverty is a key priority. there have clearly been improvements in this area but you also don't have to look hard to find those

still doing it tough. steve mcdonell, bbc news, xianbei. more than 90 missing episodes of the bbc�*s long—running radio show desert island discs from the 19605 and �*70s have been discovered in a box of old reels. the interviews with a host of famous stars from bing crosby to margot fontaine are amateur recordings made by listeners at a time when programmes weren't automatically saved for the bbc�*s archive. let's take a listen to the lost recordings. desert island discs theme music. all the scenery, the costumes and everything were left behind in holland when the germans invaded that country, and we left rather hurriedly and in an improvised manner in what we were wearing and what we could wear on top of our ordinary clothes.

i started writing when i was about 12 or 13, i think. i wrote some splendid plays when i come to think of it. i'd rather forgotten them! they were all very, very short. and one luxury to take| with you to the island? that will have to be a piano, although i don't know how it's going to stand up to the hurricanes and so forth. it will be an upright piano, - of course, so with an upright piano we'll let you have a cover. and perhaps a tuning key? and a tuning key. oh, good. you were nicknamed bing - after a character in a comic strip? mm—hm. it was a comic strip called the bingville bugle. and the leading character was sort of a tramp, wore a tin can on his head. and there was something about the ears, i gather? and his ears looked something like mine do now, rather prominent — looked like a taxi

with both doors open! how