in a special interview with the bbc�*s nick robinson, rishi sunak said he felt a moral responsibility more help even if it hurt his campaign. 0ur political correspondent, jonathan blake, has more. the self—styled underdog in the race to be prime minister under pressure to explain his plans, rishi sunak has promised help for households to pay their bills, and in a bbc interview today, said the government would have no option but to accuse. —— but to act. i do feel a moral responsibility, as prime minister, to go further, and get extra help to people over the autumn and the winter, to help them cope with what is going to be a really difficult time. i think that is the right priority. the former chancellor said support already announced would fall around £400 short once prices rise in october, and promised payments for pensioners and the lowest earners, alongside his vat cut on energy bills. haven't you just tonight, on this programme, even though you are not being specific, made a huge unfunded spending commitment of what, a few billion, over ten billion, what would you say it was? it i

earlier we saw rishi sunak talking to nick robinson.iew with rishi sunak in our next prime minister: the interviews with nick robinson on the bbc iplayer now. all children in london, between the ages of one and nine will be offered a polio booster vaccine, after the virus was detected in samples of sewage. no actual cases have been reported yet but traces of polio, which can cause paralysis, have been found more than 100 times in the city's wastewater. our medical editor fergus walsh is here to tell us more. polio is a viral disease which can cause paralysis. there hasn't been a case acquired in the uk for nearly a0 years. but now the virus has been found in sewage in these eight london boroughs. they also have some of the lowest immunisation rates which may be helping the virus to spread in the community. it's thought virus was brought to england by someone vaccinated overseas with the live oral vaccine which can in rare cases mutate in the gut and infect others through contaminated water or food. it's important to stress that here in

in a special interview with the bbc�*s nick robinson, rishi sunak said he felt a moral responsibility help even if it hurt his campaign. our political correspondent, jonathan blake, has more. the self—styled underdog in the race to be prime minister under pressure to explain his plans, rishi sunak has promised help for households to pay their bills, and in a bbc interview today, said the government would have no option but to accuse. said the government would have no option but to act. i do feel a moral responsibility, as prime minister, to go further, and get extra help to people over the autumn and the winter, to help them cope with what is going to be a really difficult time. i think that is the right priority. the former chancellor said support already announced would fall around £400 short once prices rise in october, and promised payments for pensioners and the lowest earners, alongside his vat cut on energy bills. haven't you just tonight, on this programme, even though you are not being specific, made a huge unfunded spending commitment of what, a few billion, over ten billion

the conservative leadership candidate liz truss has pulled out of a bbc one interview with nick robinsonies think tank. our political correspondent damian grammaticas has more. remember, liz truss's plan is essentially cutting taxes so reversing the recent rise in national insurance, potentially not going ahead with the increase in corporation tax. it is also being talked about that she could cut vat rates, cut income tax rates. pauljohnson, the director of the ifs, well, he says it is simplistic to assume that cutting taxes leads to higher growth, and in the current situation it could just fuel inflation and make things worse. and he says what is worrying for him is that that would be tens of billions of pounds that would be flowing into government coffers that would not now be coming if that happened, and he said that could risk crashing the public finances. rishi sunak�*s team said tax cuts would really benefit the best off and not those who most need the help. but his plans, too, it is worth saying, have also been criticised by pauljohnson, who says they are not adequate to the task

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candidates still, and in that context, liz truss is meant to be doing an interview with the bbc�*s nick robinson just been cancelled. liz truss's team so she can no longer find the time. ., round of the us open in new york, a decade after he won his first grand slam title there. laura scott is at flushing meadows for us. laura. it's day one of the us open, packed with storylines, and the drama could come thick and fast today. andy murray was one of the very first players in action, up against the 24—year—old and 24th seed francisco cerundolo. it is a lot of change since 2012 when murray won back the first of his two us open titles, not least the fact that he now has a metal hip, of course. he arrived here with unresolved issues with cramping. a bit of a shaky start, broken in the first game, and the first set proved tighter than he would have liked, but he won that 7-5 would have liked, but he won that 7—5 and has taken the second set 6-3. 7—5 and has taken the second set 6—3. three other brits in action, harriet dot, kyle edmund and the rapidly rising jack draper, but there really is only one s

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our next prime minister in the interview, nick robinson talking to rishi sunak.u can see that this evening. all children in london aged 1—9 are to be offered a polio vaccine or booster after more traces of the polio virus were found in waste water. there have been no actual cases of polio detected yet, but positive sewage samples have been found in seven boroughs in the capital and health officials want to act quickly. dr mary ramsay, director of public health programmes at the uk health security agency, told us about the cases identified which had led to the vaccine recommendation. most of the viruses we've seen our biblical vaccine like in the same as the vaccine virus and very similar in a small number of them i will recall vaccine derived and so, those have mutated and whilst the virus is spreading, they have mutated slightly in the potential to cause paralysis and that is what is us and we want to react early and we are advising that the booster vaccination and catch up vaccinations in the every child, one to nine, additional doses, for some, may be a catch

,, ., , , nick robinson. what do we learn from this? ,, , . ., ., this?she has been criticised for what she is not doing, - this? she has been criticised for what she is not doing, if - this? she has been criticised for what she is not doing, if you - this? she has been criticised forl what she is not doing, if you look at your tv listings at seven o'clock on bbc one, liz truss was meant to appear. it was not so much that the interview was not fixed up at she has actually pulled out, her team say she has no time for this 30 minute interview any longer. the polls close in the conservative leadership contest at the end of the week so i think she is probably trying to focus more on the target audience, tomorrow night as the final hustings in london along with rishi sunak so she will take questions directly from conservative party members that she has also managed to unite rishi sunak and labour, they are absolutely on the same page and they are saying she is trying to avoid scrutiny and they accuse her of not be willing to put her plans to tackle the cost of

conservative leadership candidate liz truss has pulled out of a bbc one television interview with nick robinsong. it comes after ms truss�* team hit back at criticism of her economic plans, after the institute for fiscal studies think—tank said they were "simplistic" and warned that proposals to cut some taxes could crash the economy. our political correspondent damian grammaticus is here — what more do we know about this interview miss truss will no longer be taking part in? with the bbc office of said is that she pulled out because she could no longer spare the time is what we have been told. this was agreed about two and a half weeks ago or so and so, liz truss of the time was scheduled to happen tomorrow, seven p:m., s2 to be recorded but nick robertson and presenter of the day today programme as part of the series in the next prime minister, the next explanation given was that she could not. rishi sunak dated about a week before liz truss confirmed that she was going to do this one and she is also done many interviews and has spoken to greater news the questionnaire. she has done events an

showing was in the southern city of c hook, one of the worst they've seen since the war began, nick robinsonhe latest.>> with dawn, the end to mykolaiv so far but not the fear brings. fires could be put out. the only fatalities at this residential mention. multi millionaire businessman and his wife were sheltering in the basement, when the home took a direct hit. neighbors are still in shock. >> we don't know what to do. we hate russia. actually. it is unbelievable that it can in one moment just destroy everything.>> living here almost 20 years that may be no more. >> i just don't want to stay here right now. >> this creature gives you an idea of just how big the blast was, debris strewn down here and the windows blown out. other buildings around here were also hit. and military links and off limit to the cameras, the mayor concerned that russian simple advisors artwork. sympathizers. are at work. >> i'm sure they have spies going around the city and they say i saw the number of machines, or military people, they send the information and russia attacks them. >> do you think the saboteurs mig

liz truss was supposed to do an interview today with nick robinson but pulled out because she said shee minister in just i remind us where they stand. we will have a new prime minister in just a i have a new prime minister in just a few days and they will face pressure to act quickly and extensively to soften the blow when it comes to the cost of living so liz truss likes to prioritise the ideas of tax cuts, we know she pledged to reverse a recent rise in national insurance, she wants to ensure our planned rise in corporation tax does not go ahead but where she has been more vague is what action she will take on top of that. she is not ruling out further help potentially in cash payments but we know she doesn't like the idea of hand—outs, as she calls them, but she will be under immense pressure if she becomes prime minister to spell out what help she will be giving to the most vulnerable who would not benefit from the sort of tax cuts and she's talking about or even the suspension of green levies on energy bills which might say people are around £150 a year, when they are facing bigge

. >> for more we want to bring in nick robinson, who joins us live from ukraine, good to see you.is the latest on those strikes on the nuclear power plant in zaporizhzhia? >> reporter: it's a static position at the moment, russia has heavy weapons in place around that nuclear power facility. it is in a town that, or on the edge of the town that russia has taken control of, it is a contested area, and there's no doubt that ukraine is trying to target russian forces. the idea as russia alleges that ukraine is firing at the nuclear power plant don't seem to stand up to any sort of scrutiny. there is real danger, as ukrainian officials say, and as the international inspector general has said as well, there is a real danger that some of the facilities could get damaged if there were an accident, a misfire or something landed off target near the facility that hit, perhaps the spent fuel rod containment area, which allegedly has been hit. is there a real risk of a massive nuclear meltdown on the fringes of europe? that seems unlikely. is this going to be a contested military site around

and a reminder that tonight nick robinson interviews conservative leadership candidate rishi sunak iners and police. after almost six hours of work, this 800 kilogram beluga whale, whose fate has captivated a worldwide audience, is delivered into the immediate care of a dozen vets. translation: the moment when we got the beluga out of the water _ was stressful and intense. he was surprised and moving about and we thought he would escape from the net. it was quite astonishing but he is alive. days of preparation paid off — trying to help the 4m whale, a protected species usually found in cold arctic waters, that found itself stuck in the river north—west of paris for week. it was also failing to eat after straying so far south from its natural environment. but the rescue operation has some way to go. next, it will be taken back to the coast on a refrigerated truck. with several days of treatment before hopefully being released back into the open sea, safe and well. that operation is still going on. dame olivia newton—john's niece has paid an emotional tribute to her, following the star