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and coming up on bbc news. keeley hodgkinson cruises into tomorrow night s 800m final in rome as she hopes to defend her european championship title. hello and welcome to the bbc news at one. rishi sunak has promised to scrap the main rate of national insurance for the self employed over five years, end stamp duty payments for most first time buyers, and recruit thousands more police officers if the conservatives are re elected to power next month. the prime minister launched the party s manifesto this morning at silverstone home of the british grand prix hoping to pull voters minds back to policies after recent setbacks on the campaign trail. our political correspondent leila nathoo reports. he needs this to be the moment his campaign motored ahead. rishi sunak knows that after a series of missteps, he now needs to get on the front foot. today, his chance to set out what five further years of conservative government would bring. but amid the promises of the future, ....
katherine, i m rishi. ..as rishi sunak prepares to set out his party s plans for another five years in government. on the eve of his manifesto launch last night, the prime minister hinted at tax cuts to come. we will have a manifesto that builds on all the things that you ve just gone through that we ve already announced in this campaign that, yes, does continue to cut people s taxes, because i believe in a country where people s hard work is rewarded. after cutting national insurance last autumn and in the spring the manifesto will promise to cut it by a further two pence for employees. it will also pledge that the state pension will not be taxed, and make permanent an existing cut to stamp duty for first time buyers, as well as promising that parents will only have to start paying back child benefit when their household income reaches £120,000. the manifesto will also contain pledges to raise defence spending, reform the welfare system, and double down on plans ....
after the vote the us ambassador to the un called on both hamas and israel to implement the plan without delay or any conditions. our north america correspondent maddock tawfik is monitoring events for us and sent this update. events for us and sent this u date. ,, ., , update. the united states, because no update. the united states, because no surprise - update. the united states, because no surprise that i update. the united states, i because no surprise that this resolution coincided with antony blinken set trip to the region. what we heard from the united states was that this was the best possible way to secure a durable end to the war. saying that it really is a deal that was israel s initiative, it outlined three phases that they said would eventually lead to the complete withdrawal of israeli forces. the release of all hostages in exchange for palestinian prisoners. major reconstruction of gaza eventually. but i think from different members and different positi ....
it s the panorama special, first of all the leaders. but vicky, lib dem manifesto launch today. i remember last time we had one of these for general election. it was in a nightclub. it was a nightclub. it was, yeah. yeah. where was it this time? i love nightclubs. no, this was central london ish. it was quite it seemed quite modern. it was modern. it was a very good space. i think they d splashed a bit of cash on it. yeah, it was all. it was all quite slick. what did notice and this is, and i haven t asked them if this was deliberate, the colours they ve used, they, they weren t using their normal gold, it was much more orangey like the old liberal days. interesting. and they do actually in the manifesto talk about their history as the liberal party and then the liberal democrats. so there s a little bit of continuity there. but vicky, i mean, as manifesto launches go, it was a pretty classic, quite retro thing, wasn t it? bunch of activists holding up placards, ed dave ....