and head to head — labour's harriet harman and conservative nadine dorries.has seen its steepest rise month—on—month for two years. in october it was 2.3% — that's up from 1.7% in september. the office for national statistics says that's partly due to the increase in the energy price cap, which has meant higher costs for gas and electricity. 0ur economics editor, faisal islam, has been to visit an energy company whose customers are struggling with their bills. it's more important to find out what the customer can afford to pay. welcome to the front line of the cost of living crisis. the gas meter is in credit by 33p. for millions of households, it's never ended. i can see that we've got vulnerabilities at the property and i'm just going to run through a few of them. so, you've got children under the age of two. at 10am at the hampshire energy supplier utilita, the map of customers lights up red as prepayment meters run out of cash after leeway given overnight, and the gas and electric stop until the cash is topped up. thank you. bye bye. here, charlotte is de

we've got piers morgan, nadine dorries, jonathan dimbleby on our panel tomorrow. bunch of wallflowers. i'm a bit worried. the work you're going to have to do to get that. a bit worried about it, to get anybody else into the programme. i've only got 60 minutes with the three of them. so we say to you, thank you for listening. it's a serious, these are serious times and we try and keep the conversation flowing with your help. so please write to us. do you have any wild animals on your programme tomorrow? no turkeys? no, but we have got opera singers. oh that's lovely. which is? which is passion. if not animal spirits. animal spirits. there you go. yes. thank you for listening. and goodbye. goodbye. model where working its way back in. many places have had lots of rain, northern ireland has seen some flooding, we've also seen widely strong winds and widespread scales remain a part of the forecast through the rest of this weekend, flooding rain also a concern. on the satellite picture we can see storm bert. this hook of cloud on the satellite picture a deep area of lo

in a moment, we'll hear from your panel this evening — fromer conservative culture secretary nadine dorries harriet harman. hello to you too, nick. ms dorries has just writtten a book charting what she describes as the downfall of the conservative party. and it doesn't hold back. first, in the last three days, a lot has happened that may affect the progress of the war in ukraine. after us presidentjoe biden gave permission for ukraine to finally use long range american missiles inside russian territory, which it has done. he's also agreed to give ukraine anti—personnel landmines, a hugely controversial decision which has drawn criticism from human rights groups. and the bbc understands that uk—supplied storm shadow missiles have been used on targets inside russia for the first time. this footage from ukrainian social media is claimed to show their use. russia has responded by in effect lowering the threshold at which it can use nuclear weapons. will these developments change the course of the war in any way? and how worried should we all be? general david petreus is a former director of the

and with me at the desk throughout the programme we have nadine dorries, former cabinet minister, broadcaster piers morgan, and jonathan dimbleby, broadcaster and historian — all of whom have personal stories that have shaped their views on assisted dying. but before we get to that let's see what's making the news this morning first... welfare and assisted dying dominate the headlines. the observer reports thejustice secretary describes it as a state death service and the sunday times splashes with a poll claiming public support for the bill. keir starmer�*s promised the mail on sunday a crackdown on what he calls a "bulging benefits bill blighting society". the sunday telegraph and the express both carry warnings about the threat from russia. and while you were sleeping, as the bbc reports, a deal was reached at the cop29 climate summit in baku — 300 billion to help with the costs of climate change after some last minute, late night drama over whether a deal could be done. jonathan, you take a keen interest in environmental interest, do you think the cop process is still current? , ., . ., .