this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the king led the nation on remembrance sunday observing a two minute silence and laying a wreath in memory of those who have died in war. and thousands of veterans continue to march past the cenotaph remembering fallen comrades and theirformer remembering fallen comrades and their former commander—in—chief, the

late queen. and in other news... the democrats have retained control of the us senate providing a boost to presidentjoe biden and dealing a blow to donald trump. the chancellor, jeremy hunt has told the bbc more taxes and further spending cuts are on their way as there will be some very difficult decisions ahead. we are going to see everyone paying more tax, we are going to see spending cuts, but i think it is very important to say that we are a resilient country. just because you have to make difficult — just because you have to make difficult decisions doesn't mean they have to be the same. the choices— they have to be the same. the choices that labour would be making to make _ choices that labour would be making to make our— choices that labour would be making to make our tax system fairer would .row to make our tax system fairer would grow the _ to make our tax system fairer would grow the economy so that we have money— grow the economy so that we have money for— grow the economy so that we have money for essential services.

hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. people across the uk have been paying their respects to those who've lost their lives during war. king charles has led his first remembrance sunday ceremony as monarch, at the cenotaph in london. music: last post

our royal correspondent sarah campbell is at the cenotaph. yes, indeed. it was a really historic service today because for over 100 years the service of remembrance has been led from here, the cenotaph, and for most of those decades, of course, has been led by the queen. after her death, two months ago, the king, her son, for the first time it led the nation in remembrance today, here at the cenotaph. he was the first to place the sovereign�*s wreath upon the

steps of the cenotaph and there was a wreath laid on behalf of the queen consort and then the prince of wales, prince william, laid his wreath. from the music you can hear behind me, that is what follows on from the two—minute silence, the laying of the reeds, and then the march past, of the 10,000 of veterans that gathered here today. such an important moment for them to take part in the service. as i say, the first time the king as monica has laid his wreath upon the steps of the cenotaph. 0f has laid his wreath upon the steps of the cenotaph. of course, due to the queen's illnesses, he has done it for the past few years but always on her behalf. this is the first time it has been done on his behalf. prince william also laying his own wreath for the first time. a really significant day for the royal family. the queen consort watching on as her wreath was laid from the

foreign office balcony. now, it is the foreign 0ffice balcony. now, it is the much— foreign office balcony. now, it is the much— past of the veterans. 10,000 veterans will march past the cenotaph today. very important today, the largest contingent numbering around 400 from the south atlantic medal association. that of course is commemorating those who took part in the falklands conflict in 1982, so 40 years ago. also in those marching past our veterans from the second world war. very few and far between, of course, several over 100 years old marching past today. just to give you an idea of just how important it is for them to take part in this much past. as we have been saying all morning, the person who is very much in the minds of many of those marching past the cenotaph today is the queen, the late queen. their commander in chief

for 70 years. somebody who epitomised service and duty and somebody who is in many people's thoughts today. ijust somebody who is in many people's thoughts today. i just want to introduce captainjames phillips who i am here with. i think, although we are talking about conflicts past and people remembering complex past, you with training that ukrainian army in their ongoing battle. i am with training that ukrainian army in their ongoing battle.— their ongoing battle. i am involved with the training _ their ongoing battle. i am involved with the training of _ their ongoing battle. i am involved with the training of ukrainian - with the training of ukrainian recruits here in britain and our support to them in their war against russia. i think it is really moving and a real reminder that war is still ongoing and we need to support them as much as we can. how still ongoing and we need to support them as much as we can.— still ongoing and we need to support them as much as we can. how is that happening? — them as much as we can. how is that happening? we _ them as much as we can. how is that happening? we are _ them as much as we can. how is that happening? we are taking _ them as much as we can. how is that happening? we are taking ukrainian | happening? we are taking ukrainian recruits, happening? we are taking ukrainian recruits. many _ happening? we are taking ukrainian recruits, many of _ happening? we are taking ukrainian recruits, many of whom _ happening? we are taking ukrainian recruits, many of whom started - happening? we are taking ukrainian recruits, many of whom started as l recruits, many of whom started as civilians, and we are training them out over a five—week course and giving them the best training we can before they go back to ukraine to

fight for their country.— fight for their country. really interesting — fight for their country. really interesting to _ fight for their country. really interesting to hear— fight for their country. really interesting to hear that - fight for their country. really interesting to hear that is - fight for their country. really i interesting to hear that is going on. ijust wonder, at 11am when that silence came, you are here and a gun salute booms out across central london, who was in your thoughts as you listen to that silence? absolutely, thinking about those guys that we have trained and sent back to ukraine. also, the falklands veterans and those who lost their lives. it is a big yearfor veterans and those who lost their lives. it is a big year for the welsh guards, 40 years on from the conflicts, 42 people there. a big yearfor us. conflicts, 42 people there. a big year for na— year for us. and thank you for talkin: year for us. and thank you for talking to _ year for us. and thank you for talking to us. _ year for us. and thank you for talking to us. a _ year for us. and thank you for talking to us. a really - year for us. and thank you for talking to us. a really diverse | talking to us. a really diverse number in people thoughts from those serving at the moment, people in ukraine, and of course those veterans from across the years and the former commander—in—chief, the queen, who died two months ago. back to you in the studio. now, we're going to share an act

of kindness that has been remembered for almost 80 years. in 1944, normandy veteran reg pye gave a piece of bread and jam to a stranger whilst fighting in france. he's kept a photograph of the girl he helped in his wallet ever since but never expected to see her again. fortunately, luck was on his side. lucy vladev reports. we landed upon the beach, because it was late getting there. we broke down on the way up, it was american landing craft, you can see that. and the corvettes were circling us. some memories neverfade. for reg, both the harshness and humour he found during the war still burn brightly. myself, an american airborne boy, rushed for a hole in the ground because of the bombing, and we spent the night with a rabbit, a nanny goat and a pig.

a normandy veteran, he was building bridges and taking up mines, which landed him in a village in northern france in 1944. one afternoon, with rations of pilchards and jam on bread in hand, he suddenly noticed a girl. she was staring at me and i thought, what's she staring at? i looked down and it was the bread. so i offered her the bread, i don't remember her taking the bread, but i remember her running across the village square and going into the church. i never saw her after that. but then in the morning we were pulling away, carry on wherever we were going, but in my cab i had a quantity of milk, don't know how much, i don't even remember if i drank it or not, but in amongst that was a photograph. and reg kept that photo for nearly 80 years, never telling anyone his story until now.

so this armistice day, they finally reunited. with bread and jam, of course. jam sandwich. they laugh. it was a chance to rekindle a connection started decades ago. and despite the hard times for reg, who turns 99 today, humour always wins out. so she is going to dump her boyfriend in the home now and she is going to marry reg. she is going to marry you? laughter. that is what the interpreters said, she is going to marry you, she is going to dump her boyfriend. there we are. a new chapter, perhaps, in an extraordinary life. democrats will keep control of the us senate after holding the state of nevada. in a tight race their candidate

catherine cortez masto defeated the republican, adam laxalt, who'd been endorsed by donald trump. the democrats now have 50 seats to the republicans' 49. the remaining seat, georgia, is going to a run off in december. between the two parties, vice president kamala harris has the casting vote. president biden told reporters that he was �*incredibly pleased' with the result congratulations to senator schumer, he has a majority again, we're focusing now on georgia, i feel good about where we are. i know i'm an optimist, i understand that, but i'm not surprised by the turnout, i'm incredibly pleased by the turnout, and i think it's a reflection on all of the quality of our candidates. they are all running on the same programme.

0ur north america correspondent, david willis who's been following all the twists and turns of the midterm elections for us, sent this report from washington. in these elections, joe biden's democrats have outperformed expectations, there's no question about that. us projections giving victory in the key swing state of nevada to the democrat candidate, catherine cortez masto, who was up against a trump—endorsed republican candidate, adam laxalt. now, at one point, ms cortez masto was trailing her republican rival. but then came the votes from the most populated part of the state of nevada, clark county. that's the area around the city of las vegas. that tipped it in the democrats' favour. it paves the way for the democrats to take up 50 seats in the new senate. and with the casting vote of the vice president, kamala harris, they will therefore

have a majority in the upper house. but even more remarkable, it seems, is the democrats' performance in the house of representatives. republicans seem certain to have acquired the majority there, but by a much slimmer margin than many had predicted previously, perhaps by as few as a handful of votes. that will still give them the opportunity, however, to stymiejoe biden's legislative agenda, something that they have made clear that they intend to do, including over possibly the provision of further military aid to ukraine. but given that inflation in this country is currently at a near more than 40—year high and his approval rating is as low as it's ever been as far asjoe biden is concerned, this was a remarkable performance in these midterm elections by the democrats. midterm elections traditionally, of course, in this country favour the party in opposition, and this amounts to

the best performance of its kind in 20 years — since george w bush's republicans achieved gains in both houses of congress back in 2002 following 9/11. earlier i spoke to thomas gift from university college london to hear his thoughts on why the democrats have outperformed in these midterm elections. my sense is that this was still more a matter of republican underperformance, though, than democratic overperformance. and i think most of this came down to candidate quality on the republican side, especially given polls showing dissatisfaction with the general direction of the country and biden's approvals in the low forties. it's hard to see a party doing well in that scenario unless the alternative was viewed as even worse, which i think in this case it was for many voters. so the real takeaway was that voters rejected these maga candidates, kind of these far right candidates, to espouse fringe positions

who endorsed the big lie and who trafficked in election denialism. i think it was really a reflection of self moderation on the part of the electorate that we saw on tuesday. interesting. and so does that mean the worries about democracy in america, the very real worries when you have people standing for election who don't accept basic democratic principles and results, is that being overblown, in your estimation now? did these results prove that? i don't think that it's been overblown, and i think it's important to still remain vigilant, especially as we head into 2024. donald trump has promised a big announcement on tuesday and i think, in all likelihood, he's going to declare his intention to run for president. if that's the case, then i think it really does galvanise a huge section of the republican electorate that still do think that donald trump had the election stolen from him. and if you look at public opinion data, it certainly suggests that that notion is still believed by a large percentage of the population.

but in terms of 2024, one of the real fears was that governors and secretaries of state, those responsible for certifying election results, if they were in power, then they would have the ability to overturn election results in the next presidential election. and because that doesn't seem like it's going to be the case, at least one threat to a challenge to the integrity of the electoral system in 2024 is going to be a bit more muted. interesting. let's come back to the here and now then, the next couple of years. talk to us in simple terms what it means for president biden, for the democrats, that they will have control of the senate. but let's work on the basis that they are disrupted in the house of representatives. what does it mean for the agenda ofjoe biden? it's a great question. you know, the senate staying in the hands of democrats is important, especially when it comes to the confirmation of federaljudges. and if, for example, an opening comes up in the supreme court, that could really be critical

because these supreme court nomination battles have become increasingly partisan. and so democrats really wanted to ensure that they had a majority on the off chance that does come to fruition. but still, if republicans do manage to hold on to the house, even with a small minority, they can still paralyse biden's agenda legislatively. they can block votes, and procedurally they can wind down the clock and distract attention through a slew of investigations. and we will see this. we will see investigations into hunter biden's laptop, into covid—19, into accusations of a politically motivated department ofjustice, into the us withdrawal from afghanistan and what the outcome of those investigations will be and if there is any explosive information that emerges from it, could really change the course ofjoe biden's administration over the next 6 to 12 months. here in the uk, spending cuts of about £35 billion and plans to raise some £20 billion in tax

in the coming years are expected to be set out in thursday's autumn statement. none of chancellorjeremy hunt's decisions have been officially confirmed, but it is understood most of the extra revenue will come from freezing tax thresholds. 0ur political correspondent jonathan blake explains. we are getting a broad picture of what he is going to announce. it won't be confirmed until the chancellor stands up in the house of commons. he has said at every turn over the last few weeks, as has the prime minister, that they will have to take difficult, even eye—watering decisions to increase confidence, restore confidence, in the uk economy and public finances after the fallout from the mini budget under liz truss and kwasi kwarteng a couple of months ago, and also to bring down debt, which is devastated aim over the next couple of years.

they are proposing tax cuts and tax rises, sorry tax rises and spending cuts. jeremy hunt did not say exactly what he was going to do, and you wouldn't expect him to this far out from that statement, but he did have one very broad message about the fact that everyone is going to have to bear some of the burden. we are going to see everyone paying more tax, we're going to see spending cuts, but i think it's very important to say that we are a resilient country, i think that, as simon sharma would say, we've faced bigger challenges in our history in the past, and we are also a compassionate country. we will introduce a plan that will see us through the very choppy waters that we're are in economically, but we'll make sure that we protect the most vulnerable and, in particular, deal with the single biggest worry for people on low incomes, which is the rising cost of their weekly shop and rising energy prices.

economically, that make sense too because, as pauljohnson was saying, inflation is much higher than it should be and that is destabilising people's family finances, as well as being very bad for businesses and the economy. he said he wanted to make sure that any recession that the uk went into was as short and shallow as possible, he said he would not hide the fact he was putting up taxes, that is as far as they went to acknowledging that there will be a freeze in the income tax threshold, which whereas it doesn't increase the rate at which they pay tax, but it does mean that as salaries go up more people pay tax as a result. energy support, the open—ended nature of the energy support package announced in the previous administration was one of the things that lead to the turmoil that we saw on the markets and jeremy hunt talking about that support continuing, but not

unlimited on that basis. he said there would be some restraint there. labour are saying that this is a mess of the conservative's own making and that the lack of economic forecasts that came with the previous budget is a big part of the problem. the shadow chancellor set out what her party would do in power a little earlier. it is disappointing that we still don't know the state of the public finances. the last chancellor gagged the office for public responsibility, so we haven't been able to see the details of what our public finances or the state of economy are. i think there are two important things that i'm looking for from the chancellor on thursday and that i would prioritise if it was me as a labour chancellor making the autumn statement. the first is about fair choices to manage the public finances. the second is a serious plan for growth to stop us languishing at the bottom of the global league

tables of growth and, instead, see some of the big opportunities for the industries of the future and investment and jobs here in britain. there is a political debate surrounding what the chancellor is going to do later this week, because for all of the talk of the government filling the fiscal black hole, finding tens of billions of pounds worth of savings through tax rises and spending cuts, some people, not least many conservative mps, argued that if you raise taxes it will have the opposite of the intended impact, constraining the spending power of people, putting the brakes on the economy growing and make the problem worse in the long term. jeremy hunt answered some of those critics in his own party and some of those arguing he is taking the wrong approach by saying that if we went too far in the other direction and cut taxes as liz truss did as prime minister to that extent, then we saw the fallout for all to see,

so he is talking wherever possible about sensible, fair decisions, but not hiding the impacts that is likely to come. the bbc has calculated that more than 40,000 migrants have crossed the channel from france to england in small boats so far this year. it's the highest number since figures began to be collected in 2018. two years ago there were just over 8,000 arrivals. the governing conservative party says this level of migration is not sustainable. in ukraine, president volodymr zelensky has said russian troops destroyed all the critical infrastructure in kherson — including water, heating and electricity — before they abandoned the city. ukrainian officials have imposed a curfew there, because of what they say is a continuing security threat. ukraine regained control of the city, after moscow said 30,000 russian troops were pulled out of the area on friday.

but there are reports that the kremlin's forces are making new fortifications on the left bank of the dnipro river. 0ur international editor, jeremy bowen, has the latest. here in the central square in kherson there is a sense of relief and joy, kherson there is a sense of relief andjoy, patriotism kherson there is a sense of relief and joy, patriotism as well. they are loving the fact that they can waive the ukrainian flag. but there is trepidation too. they saw the russians, close—up, for more than eight months. and they are very aware that even though the russians have gone, they are not far away, in range, potentially. and many hard months, if not years, of the war lie ahead of them. as well as that, there is talk about what happened while the russians were occupying the city. and who collaborated with them. this always happens after an

occupation, we have spoken to people here who say they need justice and if they don't get it, they say that some people might take law into their own hands. the anonymous street artist, banksy, has confirmed that he's been at work, in parts of ukraine that have been ravaged by the war. he's posted images on his instagram account ofa mural, on a building damaged by shelling, in the town of borodyanka, west of kyiv. it features a gymnast doing a handstand. various murals in banksy�*s signature, spray—painted style, have been spotted around the capital in recent days. in the us, an investigation has been launched after two second world war planes collided and crashed during a display at an airshow in dallas, texas. a p63 fighter appeared to fly

into the b17 bomber, causing both to crash in a fireball. it's not clear how many people were on board the planes, but two people are confirmed to have died. local authorities say there are no reports of injuries on the ground. it has been a morning dominated by dense fog for many but that will gradually start to thin and ease back to the north sea coast as we go through the day. then there will be more in the way of sunshine. it is going to be another incredibly mild day for this time of year, when is light for many but the strongest of the gas across scotland and ahead of this rain that is heading into

northern ireland. clouding overfour northern ireland. clouding overfour northern ireland. clouding overfour northern ireland through the latter stages of the day, but still a mild story, top temperatures of 18 celsius. the rain will be quite heavy once it arrives, western fringes of the uk as we move through the night. elsewhere we will have some stubborn fog once again forming across central and eastern england. as we go into monday, our rain will continue to push its way steadily east but we can, try elsewhere.

the democrats have retained control of the us senate providing a boost to presidentjoe biden and dealing a blow to donald trump. ukrainian a blow to donald trump. president russian troops destroyed ukrainian president russian troops destroyed critical infrastructure in the city of kherson before they withdrew. and england's cricketers have won the t20 world cup in melbourne. now on bbc news, click.

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