Morning briefing Wednesday 7th October

0:00This is Time Radio's Morning Briefing on Wednesday 7 October. Kemi Badenoch will promise tax cuts when she closes the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham later. She's expected to announce a cut to inheritance tax, arguing people shouldn't be taxed twice on money they've earned. The Tory leader will also pledge to halve employers' national insurance for workers aged 21 to 24. Former Conservative Minister Paul Scully says inheritance tax is an issue the party needs to tackle. I'm glad that inheritance tax is being talked about because you've already had your tax taken away from your earnings and your capital gains.

0:38It's a double taxation. It's a very unfair taxation. But there again, not a lot of people pay it because if you're very rich, you can get around it through accountants, etc. Death row inmate Krista Pike is said to be conscious and speaking nearly a week after Tennessee's failed execution. The convicted murderer was given two doses of a lethal drug used by the US state in executions last Wednesday. Pike's lawyers say her recovery in hospital is medically unprecedented. Classes across France have been suspended for the rest of the week after student protests over conditions in schools escalated.

1:10More than a quarter of a million people joined demonstrations yesterday with students backed by teachers, parents and trade unions. There were clashes with police in several cities as protesters demand action on overcrowding, teacher shortages and crumbling school buildings. The Times Paris correspondent Adam Sage explains why the unrest has come to a head now. It started with a protest by teachers in a school in Créte, which is a poor suburb to the east of Paris. The pupils there, or the students, the sixth formers, joined them in the protest. It was ignored, completely ignored by the media, by politicians, by just about everyone, but picked up on social media.

1:49Other schools started to protest as well and it snowballed from there. The husband of a Norfolk GP has been charged with her murder after she was found dead at their home near the King's Sandringham Estate. Dr Hannah Terry, who was 45 and a mother of three, was discovered in the early hours of Sunday. Mark Cain is due to appear before Norwich magistrates later. Shares in online fashion retailer ASOS have fallen sharply after customers received an apparent hacking message through the company's own app. The notification sent yesterday morning claimed hackers had fully compromised the database used by the retailer and threatened to leak information.

2:28ASOS says the message was unauthorised and it doesn't believe passwords or payment card details were compromised. Tech journalist Will Guyatt says the incident could still represent a significant data breach. What's particularly interesting about this, and I know that they've come out and said that they don't believe customer details are impacted, which is fantastic if true. But what is intriguing is the Snowflake database breach would be very different to them taking control of the system and being able to send notifications because they clearly had control end to end of the app or the system because they were able to send messages within the service.

3:05There's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.