Hello there, welcome to newcastle, on the Dayjeremy Hunt delivered his budget, in what is almost certainly, a general election year. Were on the citys Iconic Quayside Overlooking the magnificent river tyne, an area steeped in industrial history, and weve been gauging reaction, to the chancellors plans. Among todays annoucements, the government is to cut National Insurance, by 2p in the pound for employees and the Self Employed. Full Child Benefits will be paid to households, where the highest earning parent, is getting up to £60,000. The current limit is £50,000. And, the non dom tax regime, for uk residents whose permanent home is overseas, is to be replaced with new rules, from april next year. Well, the office for budget responsibility, says the average tax payer, is going to pay more in the coming years. It predicts 37 pence of every pound will go in tax by 2029, which would be the highest level since 1948. While the government says public spending on some services will rise by 1
and make their way to belarus which has a large land border with poland. here s president duda. translation: it is difficult for us translation: it is difficult for us to exclude today that the waggoner group poses a threat the waggoner group poses a threat to bowland, poland, and lithuania threat to bowland, poland, and lithuania with its long border as well lithuania with its long border as well as potentially to latvia as well as potentially to latvia which is also a neighbour of belarus. , latvia which is also a neiuhbour of belarus. . ., well, president duda of poland will be one of the eu leaders meeting for a 2 day summit in brussels this thursday and friday. central to the summit will be the role china plays in the war, and its relationship with russia. lynn kuok, with the shangri la dialogue senior fellow for asia pacific security joins me now. let s begin with how closely china is watching on which is going on with the wagner mercenaries and russia. thanks
the kremlin said they only hit military targets, not civilian ones. this was yuri sak, an adviser to the ukraine s defence ministry, responding to that. that s ridiculous, every time the kremlin moves their lips they re lying, and the world knows this by now so there is no trust to anything they said. and this just underscores that these are not normal people with whom negotiations are possible. these are terrorists who have to be either destroyed on the battlefield, which is what the ukrainian army is successfully doing. during the last 2a hours, we have destroyed 930 occupiers on the battlefield, so they either have to be destroyed or the other alternative is to surrender and stand trial. of course we will achieve justice and we will bring to account for these atrocities everybody who is behind them, including the top leadership of the kremlin. our correspondent andrew harding has the latest from the scene in kramatorsk. i m in the centre of kramatorsk, where the missiles
the lead starts right now. a city center in eastern ukraine rocked by a missile strike. why this target and why now. cnn is live on the scene. plus contrasting claims. what persuaded prigozhin, the wagner boss to stop his apparent revolt in russia. the leader in belarus has his version. and while vladimir putin puts his own spin on what went down. erin burnett is leading or coverage tonight in eastern ukraine into and donald trump lashing out after a cnn exclusive audio of the president talking about classified documents. welcome to the lead, everyone. i m bianna golodryga in for jake tapper. we start with the world lead and breaking news from eastern ukraine. at least two massive russian strikes in the kramatorsk region. one where three people were killed including a child. an eyewitness tells cnn s team on the ground they ve seen up to a dozen people pulled from the rubble after days of turmoil inside of russia. following an aetempted armed rebel group led by prig