Posted Tuesday, September 22 at 11:58 PM CDT; Wednesday, September 23 at 12:58 AM EDT, 0558 BST.

Top stories in Wednesday morning’s London papers:

1) Prime Minister Gordon Brown will indicate that he is willing to scale down the size of Britain’s Trident nuclear submarine fleet at a meeting of the UN Security Council this week, according to Defence Editor Michael Evans along with Francis Elliott from New York in the Times. The initiative “means that the future of Britain’s independent nuclear deterrent is in doubt whoever wins the next election.”

2) Chinese president Hu Jintao indicated his country’s most substantial commitment to date to reduce its carbon emissions in an address to the UN General Assembly yesterday, Julian Borger and Suzanne Goldenberg report from New York for the Guardian. Nevertheless, “Hu’s speech fell short of expectations that he would name the target for China’s carbon intensity, and observers suggested China was keeping its cards close to its chest until the climate change summit in Copenhagen in December.”

3) A political row continues over revelations that the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, was fined £5000 for employing an illegal immigrant. Cabinet colleagues are pressuring her to resign, according to Rosa Prince, John Bingham and Jon Swaine in the Telegraph. According to a senior Cabinet minister: “Her position is untenable. She’s toast.”

4) The Independent features a Press Association report by Katie Hodge on conditions in the so-called “Jungle” refugee camp in Calais. French police surrounded the site and detained 270 people, including 132 who declared themselves to be children. The camp has been home to predominately Afghan asylum seekers. Demands have been voiced to admit to the UK those refugees with family connections.

5) The Financial Times reports that Germany will escape the brunt of job reductions in the wake of the takeover of the European operations of General Motors by Canadian firm Magna. Most layoffs will occur in the UK, Belgium and Spain. “The news brought angry reactions from union leaders ojn Tuesday, ahead of a rally planned for Wednesday by GM’s European unions at its plant in Antwerp, which Magna and the US carmaker say may need to close for Opel to become viable.”

6) Martin Wolf, in a commentary for the FT, argues that China needs to rebalance its economy. “A substantial appreciation of the Chinese currency is inevitable and desirable in the years ahead. The longer the Chinese authorities fight it, the bigger their losses (and the pain of adjustment) are going to be. What they have to do is cut those losses, by ceasing to accumulate yet more reserves.”