The Purpose Banding there. The pope is standing there at marseille airport. This is the start of a two day visits. It is expected to focus very much on migration. It is the first visit to the french city by a pope for five centuries. Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend a mass at the stadium tomorrow, so a lot of people will get a chance to see the pope. His going to be holding prayers this afternoon at the basilica of notre dame. He is going to hold prayers there with the local clergy and then its going to be followed by a moment of meditation. There will be representative of other religions for sailors and migrants who lost their lives at sea. Two days, a welcome ceremony as you can see now and later on a prayerfor migrants. Tomorrow, a big event at a stadium which is expected to see Tens Of Thousands of people turn out. Well come back to these images over the next couple of hours. We will take you to the other visiting france, king charles and Queen Camilla visiting a
To say thank you for all that canada has done, a good ally to ukraine, there are a lot of ukrainians living in canada at the moment so president zelensky theyre signing, i dont know what he is signing, perhaps we can find out later, but hes going to address politicians in the Canadian Parliament with Prime Minister trudeau taking him into the chamber now. Of course, today we heard from ukrainian officials saying that its forces have successfully hit the headquarters of russias black sea navalfleet successfully hit the headquarters of russias Black Sea Naval Fleet in crimea. Russia says that one serviceman is missing after the attack. The local governor warned residents in the city of sebastopol that another attack was possible and to urge the city centre and stay indoors. I think we can show some pictures posted on social media of plumes of smoke rising from the building that was attacked, we are just trying to find you those pictures and we will cross to them. Here is a map. Here we a
chancellor of the exchequerjeremy hunt has described his autumn budget statement. 27 million workers will see their main national insurance contributions cut from 12% to 10% from january. and a tax break for companies that invest in new equipment will be made permanent, which mr hunt claims is the biggest business tax cut in modern history . also announced the news that from april, universal credit and disability benefits will go up by 6.7 percent. but those on welfare will have to take a work placement within 18 months or risk losing their benefits. the state pension will go up by 8.5% to 221 pounds 20 a week. the minimum wage for those aged 21 and older will go up to 11 pounds 44 an hour. pouring some cold water on all this however, a report out from the uk s independent spending watchdog, the office for budget responsibility. it warns that despite the new cuts, overall tax as a percentage of national income will soon be the highest since the second world war. here s our p