have coming from the ons, what we have here is the number of people arriving, net migration, the year ending june 2023, was 672,000 people, so the difference between those arriving and those leaving. a positive figure of 672,000. that was higher than a year earlier, injune 2022, when it was 600,000, so 10% higher, another 65,000 people arriving in 2023 compared to 2022. but the one thing they saying this is that the number was down on the estimate. if you took the december figure, it went up, but then down compared to december 2022. possibly an indication of a downward possible turn of the curve but still, as you were saying, very high figures, particularly if you consider that if you look back to the beginning, of the last election, this latest government, at the point they came in it was 226,000, so very roughly a third of the level it is now. and the promise in 2019 from the conservative government in their manifesto was that overall numbers will come down. we haven t seen
good evening from hull, where on the day ofjeremy hunt s autumn statement we ve been talking to people here, about how they feel the chancellor s plans will affect them. we are at the street life museum which celebrates this great port city s economy and transport and from here we ll be assessing jeremy hunt s tax and spending plans for the year ahead including measures affecting the take home pay and household budgets of millions of people. there ll be tax cuts including a cut in national insurance from 12% to 10% for 27 million people. the state pension will increase by 8.5% and universal credit and disability benefits will rise by 6.7%. but, those on welfare must take a work placement if they are still looking for a job after 18 months or risk losing their benefits. and the overall picture for growth is gloomy the independent watchdog the obr says its forecasts for growth are sharply lower than predicted and that s for the next two years. the obr also says that
of the hostages held by hamas call for the israeli government to do more to bring them home. here in london, pro palestinian demonstrators turn out in force. these are live pictures. protests are also planned in other capital cities. fresh aid enters gaza, whilejuliette touma from the un tells the bbc they have managed to re establish some contact with their teams. this is bbc news. the israeli military says troops and tanks remain on the ground in gaza, after it intensified its operation against hamas, by land, air and sea. it said air attacks hit 150 underground targets and killed several senior hamas commanders. hamas s armed wing says it is engaging israeli troops. in the past few minutes, israel has again warned people in the north of gaza to head south, saying their window to act was closing . as the israeli operation unfolded, a bbc correspondent in gaza reported a huge bombardment in northern gaza, which he said was on an unprecedented scale. he described scenes of p