tonight, the prime minister is still in charge, the new chancellor says, as some of her mps publicly question herfuture. liz truss and jeremy hunt met at chequers today for talks on further changes to her mini budget. he says voters don't want more turbulence. what they want is stability, and the worst thing for that would be more political instability at the top, another protracted leadership campaign. tomorrow at westminster, liz truss will see her cabinet and mp5, but the criticism of her decision—making has come from across the atlantic too. cutting taxes on the super wealthy at a time when... anyway, ijust think, i disagree with the policy.

as a new week begins, we'll be looking at the options for the chancellor and the possible market reaction. also tonight... the devastating impact of somalia's drought. how people are walking for days in search of life—saving help. china's president defends his zero—covid policy as the communist party gathers for a congress that happens only twice in a decade. and ireland open their rugby league world cup campaign with an emphatic win over tournament debutants jamaica. good evening. the prime minister is in charge, her new chancellor said today, 48 hours into thejob and with the task of restoring market confidence in her economic plans. jeremy hunt has made clear

he will be looking at government spending as well as the tax cuts in the mini budget. as he and liz truss met today, her position did not appear secure, as some of her mps continued to criticise her and question whether she can remain in office. here's our political correspondent ben wright. behind the gates of the prime minister's country retreat, liz truss met her chancellor — not unusual in normal times, but these are not. jeremy hunt has been sent in to urgently rewrite the government's economic strategy. so who has the power now? the prime minister is in charge. really? yeah, i think it is important... some tory mps think liz truss needs to go. her chancellor had this warning to his party. when i talk to my constituents in south west surrey, what they want is stability, and the worst thing for that would be more political instability at the top, another protracted leadership campaign. i think that's the last thing that people really want to happen. but some of mr hunt's

colleagues are still seething about the government's now abandoned plan for unfunded tax cuts. over the past few weeks the government has looked like libertarianjihadists and treated the whole country as kind of laboratory mice in which to carry out ultra, ultra free—market experiments. i wasn't the only one that thought it was a mistake. even the us president has a view about what's been going on here. the idea of cutting taxes on the super wealthy at a time when... anyway, ijust think, i disagree with the policy but it's up to great britain to make that judgment and not me. and may have chilled relations with number ten with that highly unusual bit of commentary. as despairing tory mps trudge back to westminster tomorrow, they know this is a political crisis that directly affects their constituents. and if the last few weeks have shown anything,

it's that decisions made by politicians here can have an instant impact on people's lives and the economy. on the value of the pound, on borrowing costs, mortgage payments and rents. and it seems many tory mps have resolved that liz truss cannot be left in office to sort it out. can liz truss survive? no, i think the game is up. and it's now a question as to how the succession is managed. he's the first conservative mp to publicly say it should now be curtains for liz truss, but the criticism from others is hardly veiled. power is a very fickle thing - and i think liz truss, as i see it, is in office but is not in power. and this former cabinet minister thinks liz truss needs to get more talent into her team. she needs to bring the broad conservative party into her government. so a reshuffle? she needs a reshuffle, because the reshuffle that she started her administration with, she took the decision,

which was respectable but high risk, to only put in the cabinet people who had voted for her, and that means, that's only a third of the conservative party in parliament. reaction to the chancellor's budget plan could determine the prime minister's fate. some tory mps believe her time is up but allies says she can ride this crisis out despite the turmoil lapping at downing street's door. ben wright, bbc news. as a new trading week begins on the international markets, reaction to the changes of the last 48 hours will be closely watched. and the new chancellor has some difficult sums to grapple with. our economics correspondent dharshini david is with me. in the last hour, the pound has moved up slightly against the dollar as international trading resumed for the first time after the chancellor ripped up an economic strategy that was launched just a month ago. but will his version reassure other financial markets? let's look at some of the challenges. this is the cost of new government

borrowing as dictated by the bond markets — which also impact mortgage rates — that rate remained higher on friday than it was prior to september's mini budget — investors are still anxious that the government's plans are risky. jeremy hunt will have to convince them on three fronts on the 31st of october when he unveils his plans — and the independent watchdog's assessment. can he boost long—term growth, how will he fund existing plans and ultimately bring down the government's debt, restore a reputation for safe money? for even with u—turns over plans to scrap the highest rate of income tax and freeze corporation tax, the remaining tax changes will cost the public purse £25 billion, the help towards energy bills £60 billion. add in other factors and as it stands, government has to find billions to get the public finances back on track. some economists say that funding gap

could reach £45 billion. jeremy hunt is targeting spending — in an extreme case that sum could be equal to 10% cuts to the spending on frontline services, from health, to education and defence. those services are already facing austerity as inflation squeezes budgets. here's the dilemma for the chancellor. take a look at the average annual interest payments on mortgages — the line shows they were expected to rise even before the mini budget. but the market turmoil since — reflected by this red line — could add £800 to a typical bill by the end of 202a. with those pressures, economists are warning of looming recession. so fail to restore credibility and the nation could pay the price. the chancellor has just 14 days to make his sums add up, and there are no easy fixes. dharshini david, thank you.

0ne spending decision might be for benefits to increase in line with earnings — which means around 5% — rather than inflation — which is currently around 10%. 0ur social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports from sunderland now on how individuals and communities could be affected. every second day nicky telford has to spend five hours on this kidney dialysis machine, and will do so for the rest of his life. i need this machine to keep me alive. his illness means he isn't suitable for an organ donation, but his illness isn't his only concern. right now i'm sitting here now shivering. i'm freezing. unable to work any more, he relies on benefits, but it's not enough. he can't afford to put the heating on and is struggling to put his youngest child through college. i'm worrying about my daughter and trying to worry about my house and where we're going to feed and things like that. it's a lot to take on, mate. benefit levels matter more in cities

like sunderland as deprivation levels are three times higher than the england average, yet recent government policy has consistently cut their value. increases in benefit levels have not kept pace with inflation in nine of the past 12 years. that doesn'tjust mean those receiving the payments are poorer. it also means local economies with high numbers of welfare recipients have less money as well. the local citizens advice office is busier than ever as people search, often in vain, for help. they simply can't afford to pay their council tax, they can't afford to pay their gas and electric bills, and they can't afford to buy enough groceries to last them the week. alison bailey lives for her dogs. what do you get out of them? pleasure, happiness. she gets universal credit and carer�*s allowance for tending to her elderly mother, giving her about £100 a week to live on after rent. she can't afford heating and has changed what she eats. a lot more soup, tins

of curry in the microwave. you try to keep to a healthy diet and stuff like that, but it'sjust impossible to do. the fruit prices have gone up. well, everything has, really. but itjust seems as if your world's shrinking in on you. and you daren't go out every day, because you'll end up spending money you haven't really got. there's a big debate at the moment on how much they should raise benefits by. what would you say to them? come into my shoes, and judge by that, because there's nothing more frustrating for a man like me who wants to go to work, and i can't work. i don't feel like a man any more because you can't support your family. ministers say they're committed to helping the most vulnerable, but many of those most in need, however, feel left behind. michael buchanan, bbc news, sunderland. let's go back now to ben wright, our political correspondent, who's live in downing street.

amid all these big questions on tax and spending, we had three of the prime minister's mps called publicly today for her to resign. what is yoursense today for her to resign. what is your sense tonight of her standing? 0nce your sense tonight of her standing? once a prime minister's defining ideological purpose has been abandoned and their authority has been hammered, it's very hard to see them coming back from that. but liz truss will this week try and steady her premiership. tomorrow evening she will host a reception for her cabinet to hear their views about what should go into the budget while the chancellor will hold a series of meetings with conservative mps all week. liz truss has replaced her chancellor and i think that those buy her a bit of space but it hasn't staunch the criticism. what we are hearing today are angry conservative backbenchers going public. privately many tory mps are saying that and now it is a question of when the prime minister's is ejected from office, not if she is ejected from

office. behind the scenes in westminster, and these will continue all week, there are discussions going on. i don't think there is a great big master plan here. the situation is as chaotic as it seems. some of the potential successors like rishi sunak are keeping their heads down. it is a really fractured party and no one is sure how the end the end might come. also the spectacle of the tory party once again changing their leader in office is a prospect that many conservative mps recoiled from. however, liz truss must know at this stage the danger that her premiership is in. ben wright at downing street, thank you. there's much more analysis from our political team on bbc news 0nline — that's bbc.co.uk/news — or by using the bbc news app. more now on what's been happening in somalia — an extreme drought which our africa correspondent andrew harding reported on two weeks ago. he has now returned to somalia

to see its impact in another part of the country. somalia has a long history of droughts but climate change has made the intervals between them shorter, and this one is the worst for a0 years. let's show you this map — it uses data from a us aid group monitoring famine. the orange areas are in crisis, and the red ones are one step worse, they are classed as facing emergency conditions. the area in dark red, is where a full blown famine is projected to begin within weeks. that's where where households have no food, children suffer acute malnutrition, and people die every day from starvation. andrew's report tonight comes from dolow, where people have come in search of life—saving help. a warning that you are likely to

find parts of it difficult to watch. from the parched plains of southern somalia, a weary exodus. these families have trekked for days across a hostile wilderness in search of food. tens of thousands have made similar journeys in recent weeks. drawn to places like this. the crowded outskirts of dolow, a border town where some help is at hand. the local hospital, funded by britain since the last famine here back in 2011, is playing a vital role. the baby is really very severely malnourished. but pamela, a nutrition expert from neighbouring kenya, is afraid of what lies ahead. somalia needs help. now?

yeah. and if it doesn't get it? we are headed for a catastrophe. this is serious. it's really going to get worse if nothing more comes in other than what's already there. today, that catastrophe is already taking shape in the crowded stabilisation award. as usual, it's the under fives who act as the fragile sirens of famine. and today, a boy is fighting for his life. he is two years old, but weighs little more than a newborn baby. he has been hungry for most of his life? his mother tells me he had a fever for weeks. "the drought took everything from us, all our crops, our cattle," she says. "there was nothing left for the boy to eat." which is why they came here, to dolow.

it took the boy and his family nine days to walk to this camp. they had to beg for food on the way. it was somalia's savage drought that forced them off their farm but the real culprit here is man—made climate change. almost no one here thinks they will ever go back to their farms, to their old way of life. the next morning, we return to check up on the boy. but he is struggling. his body temperature has dropped sharply. probably might be successful. we are not sure. but we are still trying to do something. the doctors try to warm him with a foil blanket, but he's too weak to respond. his mother and grandmother watch silently. but there is no more to be done. and with a light touch on her shoulder, his mother is told that it's over.

her husband is there, too, to see the end. the number of children that we've lost here this year, 2022, also increased. it must take a toll on you and your staff to see that. yeah, it normally takes a toll, especially it is so sad and painful when you witness something that can be prevented and can be corrected very easily. within hours, the boy's father is already helping to dig a grave. there are brief prayers. and as the women watch from a distance, a two—year—old's body is buried. it will not be the last here. andrew harding, bbc news,

in dolow, somalia. and andrewjoins us now live from the somali capital mogadishu. you showed us the story of that one family, andrew. how would you describe the international response? it's not enough, certainly not even halfway meeting the needs, which are growing very fast here. the latest figures are that nearly 8 million people in somalia are in urgent need of help, half the population, doubling in the last few months. britain is giving some £50 million to somalia this year but that is a quarter of what it provided five years ago during the last drought here, which was narrowly avoided becoming a famine. the concern now is that within the next 4—6 weeks a famine could be declared. but that will come too late almost certainly for thousands, will come too late almost certainly forthousands, if will come too late almost certainly

for thousands, if not tens of thousands, mostly young children like the boy in my report, who are the most vulnerable victims of this man—made catastrophe, ultimately, because this is really about climate change. but it is also about conflict. somalia has essentially been at war for the past 30 years and that is showing no sign of ending. al—shabab, the islamist group, still controls a lot of the countryside here. it is influential, powerful and dangerous in the cities as well, meaning it is a very difficult country to help, very difficult country to help, very difficult to get access to about 1 million somalis who are trapped in territory controlled by al—shabab and we don't know what conditions they are in right now.— they are in right now. africa correspondent _ they are in right now. africa correspondent andrew - they are in right now. africa i correspondent andrew harding they are in right now. africa - correspondent andrew harding in somalia, thank you. the authorities in iran say four prisoners have died after a fire at evin prison in tehran, which holds hundreds of political prisoners as well as foreign detainees. 61 others were injured.

evin also holds some of those detained in the current wave of anti—government protests. foreign governments, including the uk and the united states, have expressed concern. china's president has said there will be no change to the country's zero—covid policy, which has meant frequent lockdowns and economic disruption. xi jinping was speaking at the start of the communist party congress — a gathering that happens only every five years. stephen mcdonell reports from beijing. xijinping is on the brink of an historic third term in office. a move which will give him power not seen in decades. so at the great hall of the people, he was praising his government's performance, sounding strident, as he said the communist party would try to achieve peaceful unification with the self—governing island of taiwan, but warning that he wouldn't rule out seizing by force what he sees as part of his country's territory. translation: we will never promise to renounce the use| of force as an option.

he defended the hong kong crackdown, which he said had restored order to the city. but what most chinese people wanted to hear from him was whether covid lockdowns and travel restrictions might be eased when the congress finishes. the short answer, no. translation: people's lives come first. - we will not waver in our zero—covid policy. however, there was no acknowledgement of the pain this country has suffered, as cities have shut down for months on end, nor of the rising youth unemployment as businesses close their doors. translation: the epidemic has really hit the economy, - and i was hoping to hear new policies to help people. translation: if we could find a “ob we wouldn't be studying i for a masters degree right now. a few days ago protest banners were hung off a beijing bridge calling for xi jinping's removal. there's always increased security in the city when these big political meetings happen,

but this time round these bridges are being guarded round the clock. and seeing these guard stations is probably the closest most people come to engagement with the congress. when this meeting finishes in a week's time, xijinping will reveal his new leadership team. his political rivals have been removed. in theory he could be leader for life. stephen mcdonell, bbc news, beijing. you can catch today's premier league highlights in match of the day 2 after this programme, but in the rugby league world cup, ireland had a comfortable win againstjamaica, and there was a shock defeat for scotland, as adam wild reports. a global competition, but in newcastle very much a european challenge. both scotland and italy are still developing as rugby league nations, but taking the game to new areas and crucially to new fans is all part of the world cup mission. it may only be their opening game,

but for both, a feeling that this was a match crucial to any chance of progressing at this tournament. italy seemingly in no mood to wait, chasing from the start, luke polselli getting there first. scotland clinging on, within touching distance, just, at the break. after, italy broke away completely. jake maizen scoring three times to put beyond scotland the game and any real chance of making the knockout stages. and so deep disappointment for scotland. and with matches against fiji and reigning world champions australia still to come, this world cup isn't going to get any easier. now for ireland to get their competition under way. in leeds they were up againstjamaica, making their world cup debut. another emerging nation in the international game. ireland though offering them no warm welcome. four tries in the first half. this was an impressive, dominant display from an ireland side sending out a warning to others

at this world cup. 48—2, the final score. as other nations continue to develop, ireland appear now a realforce in the global game. adam wild, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's nick miller. a decent day out there today. things have changed this evening. clear skies have brought us the sunshine today but have gone and clouded over with rain moving northwards, rain and stronger wind. the last few hours of the rainfall picture indicating where it is heaviest, particularly across parts of northern ireland at the moment. all down to this area of low pressure taking the bulk of its rainfall through overnight. behind it tomorrow, still showers in scotland but for many places blustery and sunshine again. the heaviest rain as the night goes on will move from northern ireland and through scotland, windiest in the west with gales around some coasts. turning milderfrom the gales around some coasts. turning milder from the south as the night

goes on so a mild feel particularly across southern areas as the day begins tomorrow. early rain clearing the far north of scotland and then spreading through the northern isles, clearing east anglia and the south of finland as well. north wales and northern ireland, a few showers but not many left by the afternoon. continuing in scotland, lengthy north of the central belt book but for many in the afternoon, sunny spells but blustery for all. stronger gusts than this, north wales northwards 40—50 mph. temperatures for the bulk of the week ahead, chile on monday night. the coldest night of the week. a touch of frost in places as tuesday begins. away from the odd shower in the south—west on tuesday, a mini ridge of high pressure with a lot of financial i weather around on tuesday. low pressure comes back for the second half of the week. not sweeping through, lingering towards the south—west of us, feeding bands of rain and showers northwards at times that could be heavy and thundery and the wind will pick up once again. you will notice with

temperatures staying like this for the rest of the week, it will not feel like we are over halfway through autumn. that's all from us at bbc news at ten. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it's time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. goodnight. hello there.

so far this month, we have seen a near—normal amount of rainfall across the uk. it has been a bit dry across england and wales, but scotland and northern ireland did get some wetter weather. on sunday we had plenty of sunshine for the afternoon then it started to turn cloudier late in the day across northern ireland, wales and southern areas of england and that is the first sign of the next batch of rain on its way. looking at the week ahead, we will see some pretty heavy rain across western areas particularly as another batch of rain works through, particularly on thursday. it is an unsettled weather pattern. low pressure to the south—west of the uk and this will bring widespread outbreaks of rain as we go through sunday night. the rain still with us heading into the first part of monday, although there will be an improvement in the weather across england and wales, particularly as we start to see this rain clear away. this ridge of high pressure follows in behind, so there will be quite a bit of dry weather once we have lost that rain. will tend to ease to blustery

showers, so it still will stay unsettled with threats of outbreaks of rain into the afternoon. temperatures near normal across northern areas but mild across england and wales, 19 in london, three degrees above the october average for the capital. monday evening and overnight, the area of low pressure finally moves out of the way. still showers feeding in on the back edge across orkney and shetland for a time, one to clipping into one or two clipping into the north—east of aberdeenshire. it is going to be a much colder night as well with temperatures getting down into single figures. there could be a few areas that get close to a frost if we keep the clear skies and light winds long enough. midweek, high pressure brings in across northern areas of the uk. we have this low area of low pressure. something of a battleground across the uk. for many on tuesday it is a dry day with the ridge of high pressure initially dominating the weather picture. there will be a few areas of mist and fog. the high pressure is associated with cooler air,

so in scotland 12 or 13 degrees, close to the average, but towards the south—west very mild at 17 or 18 degrees. for wednesday, that area of low pressure starts to throw bands of rain across the south—west of england, wales and northern ireland. the driest weather closest to the high pressure in the north—east but for here in scotland it will be cooler, those temperatures dipping below average, whereas elsewhere, particularly for england and wales, the weather tends to be pretty mild again. thursday is going to be a wet day. a band of rain pushes its way north across the country. the rain is likely to be widespread and heavy for a time. still mild across southern areas with southerly winds blowing in, 18 degrees or so, but relatively cooler in scotland. heading into friday, the low pressure bringing some further rain across western areas in particular. one or two showers in the east but not amounting to too much. those temperatures are starting to lift by a degree or so in scotland and northern ireland, 14—16 here as we end the week.

into the weekend and the following week, that area of low pressure is going to still really be dominating the weather picture, it will not go anywhere very far very fast so we have showers or lengthy spells of rain in the forecast through next weekend and into next week as well. the heaviest rain is always likely to be across western areas, closest to that low centre. this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are sebastian payne, whitehall editor for the financial times, and martin lipton, chief sports

reporter at the sun. tomorrow's front pages.