gaza. closing organs begin and donald trump ultimate cost money trial. we will be live from new york. best closing arguments begin in donald trump s hush money trial. hello, i m martine croxall. the economy has taken centre stage on the campaign trail today. the prime minister says he will protect pensioners from a tax hike if the conseravtives win the next election. rishi sunak launched what s being called the triple lock plus plan which will increase pensioners personal allowance to prevent more people paying income tax. labour says the plan is not credible. meanwhile, the shadow chancellor, rachel reeves, has said that labour is the natural party for british business and unveiled a list of 121 businesses who are supporting them at this election. faisal islam reports. the prime minister was inspecting china in the potteries today, but there are no delicate ming vases in his campaign. the conservatives strategy appears to be move fast and break things, with bold polici
and our political correspondent jack fenwick. another busy day of campaigning, what stood out for you today? there s quite a bit to choose from. it certainly has been another busy day. once again, a theme we ve seen so far in this election is that the economy is really front and centre. we ve heard in the last few minutes how labour have had this letter signed by various business leaders saying they think labour is the way to go in the selection, we ve heard rachel reeves has been out talking about the economy as well. this is all part of labour trying to say they are a changed party since 2019 when jeremy corbyn they are a changed party since 2019 whenjeremy corbyn led the party into that particular election. keir starmer and rachel reeves, and the rest of the labour party think that voters want to be reassured that they will be a safe pair of hands, if you like, if they are in charge of the economy. but there s also a note of caution darrenjones covid labour s shadow chie
they just sit. ainsley: i don t think anyone knew that angela didn t know it. she wrote us and said wow, 180 bills just sitting there? all senators should do their jobs or resign. brian: it s what doing their jobs. if you vote with the president and three people don t, i don t think you can blame the 47 that did. steve: the whole idea is if you pass something in the house and it moves to the senate have them vote on it but instead he is not having them take those tough votes. ainsley: how do those three people keep getting elected they are not representing the party. brian: susan collins is representing susan collins and people of maine. ainsley: her constituents. brian: please mitch, get something done now before the luster of your supreme court maneuvers wear off. it s the senate bill that the senate seems to be more intrigued than the house bill. yesterday he was working the phones and telling so-called moderate democrats, listen, don t get caught up in the house bill the senate one
sort of go through it and pick out something specific. because there s no end in sight to the plastic washing up on beaches around the world, there s no end to the sculptures angela and her team are making. in fact, they have several going on at the same time. all the time. so you guys did this basically from scratch. oh, yeah. the whole bit. yeah, we had all the plans and the lay out and the drawing. so we re going to be able to finish this today? [ laughter ] our work takes a long time. it does. from start to finish, how long are we talking? ai, aye, aye, six months. as much as i d like to linger for six to eight months, that s not in the cards. angela s always on the verge of finishing something. meet zora. are their feet pink in real life? they are. see that?
scene in witness where all the amish come out to help put up a new barn? for this community and washed ashore, it s like that. they ve all got skin in the game. and it s amazing how many want to pitch in and make a difference. why do you do it? i think when you first see angela s work you re just taken in, and then all of a sudden you realize every single bit of this is garbage that washed up on the beach. and you look here. every one of those is a bottle. and you just start seeing it, and you get overwhelmed. oh, my god, this isn t beautiful at all. this is absolutely disgusting. yeah. and that s why you do it. angela s goal is to go out of business. but, until she runs out of art supplies, the work will continue. but there s no doubt. message is catching on. you know what you re actually working on here? mm-hm. what? the inside of a jellyfish. do you know why we re making