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Long term decisions for a brighter future, or short term jockeying for advantage . Rishi sunak sets out his stall for the coming election. The northern leg of h52 is cancelled. The Prime Minister insists that every penny of the £36 billion intended for that rail link will be spent on other projects. There were a raft of other announcements too, sold like this. Politics doesnt work the way it should. Weve had 30 years of a political system which incentivises the easy decision, not the right one....

Correspondent. Whats happening . Are here at bute house which is the First Ministers Official Residence where an unscheduled Cabinet Meeting is taking place. We had word early this morning they would be meeting early today. Lorna slater and Patrick Harvie, co leaders of the scottish greens, left bute house this morning before that Cabinet Meeting got under way and we have now had confirmation that that meeting was bringing an end to the Power Sharing Agreement that had beenin Power Sharing Agree...

On israels border with gaza, feels like a time capsule stuck in the horrors of october 7. Hamas broke in at dawn. They killed and took Hostage A Quarter of the 400 or so israelis who lived here. Sayed was laying there dead, nearthere. You could see that he was trying to hold the door closed, and actually, the door was locked. The army opened the door later. Ron behat and his family survived in their safe room. Then he recovered dead friends and neighbours, some in pieces. In this house, you know...

where they are, lets keep them high to show financial markets that we are serious about fighting inflation and wait until it comes down before we loosen. of course the criticism here is that, and the banks own analysis shows that, that it takes 1.5 years for the full effect of interest rate increases to ripple through the economy, so we might well be in a situation where we have kept rates very high for quite a while and that is really pummelling the economy, we are getting low or even...

and late yesterday, the chancellor announced the minimum wage is to go up by more than a pound, to £11.44 per hour, from april next year. and jeremy hunt decided the rate would also apply to 21— and 22—year—olds for the first time. heres our econmics corrrespondent, andy verity. ona cold, on a cold, damp day at the south london market, ask what they want the government to do something about and you will hear two big concerns that havent gone away. energy and food. , ., , ., , fo...

by the americans. all this raises the ghosts of 1948 for palestinians, when more than 700,000 of them fled or were expelled byjewish troops as israel won its independence. israel never allowed them home. two of the gaza hostages were in new videos. hanna katsir blamed benjamin netanyahu, israels prime minister, for their plight. so did yagil yaakov, whos 13. hostage videos are usually made under duress, so the bbc is not broadcasting them. and across the west bank, the other side of th...

breakfast — its friday the 28th ofjune. us presidentjoe biden and his rival donald trump have gone head to head in the first televised debate of this years election campaign. its the first time a sitting us president has directly debated with his predecessor — and the pair attacked one another over their separate records in office, with americas standing on the world stage a key focus. kim jong—un kimjong—un and kim jong—un and president chi of china, kimjong—un of north ko...

arguments go. appreciate it. >> look forward to you explaining it all of us including me. donald trump will be back in court tomorrow morning for closing arguments in his new york election interference trial. he has been charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to haida hush money payment made to adult film star stormy daniels before the 2016 election for her alleged sexual encounter with donald trump. nbc news report said a dozen members of the public have alread...

theyre getting hungry as the siege, the three—week—long siege, continues. our other main story: matthew perry — one of the stars of the hit tv show friends — is found dead at his home in los angeles. hello, im maryam moshiri. we start in gaza, where international agencies have expressed concern about reports of an israeli evacuation orderfor the al quds hospital in northern gaza. hundreds of patients are receiving treatment at the hospital, with an estimated 14,000 gazans shelt...

will come along. we are 90 minutes away from kick—off in cologne. england preparing for theirfinal group game in the european championship, which is against slovenia. in many ways, its alreadyjob done after results elsewhere last night confirmed that england are through to the last 16 no matter what happens in tonights game. but they look a long way off that pre—tournament tag as favourites. that has dominated the post—match analysis in germany, especially after their draw agains...