hello, i m lauren taylor. we start here in the uk, and the fourth day of campaigning ahead of the general election on the 4th ofjuly. labour says it won t raise income tax or national insurance, if it wins power. the pledge was made by the shadow chancellor, rachel reeves, speaking to the bbc, but she didn t rule out some spending cuts, saying there would be difficult decisions to make. leila nathoo has more. thank you very much. she wants to decide how taxpayers money is spent. rachel reeves making her pitch in west yorkshire this afternoon, promising a labour government would ensure economic stability. today, she said if she became chancellor there would be no rises in income tax or national insurance. but she acknowledged she would face difficult decisions and that public services were struggling. we re not going to be bringing back austerity, but we have got that immediate injection of cash into our front line public services. that s a down payment on the changes that
consider working with rival parties also. pep guardiola s awkward post match interview. what was your response? ask the referee, not me. you don t seem happy you have won? i am happy. you are not showing t i m so happy, happy new year. and it s uphill all the way. what s it like to live on the steepest street in the world? good morning, it s tuesday, 3rd january. i m ben brown, welcome to bbc news room live. a man has been shot dead by police in an operation near the m62 motorway in huddersfield yesterday evening. west yorkshire police say the operation was pre planned atjunction 2a near ainley top, and that 5 people were arrested, they said it was not related to terrorism. the independent police complaints commission has sent investigators to the scene. it s the 5th fatal police shooting in england and wales within 9 months. our home affairs correspondent, danny shaw, reports. the shooting happened shortly after 6 o clock yesterday evening on a slip road off the m62 at ain
the bbc news at one. a man has been shot dead by police in a pre planned operation near the m62 motorway in huddersfield. he has been named as yasser yaqub. west yorkshire police say an officer s gun was fired and five people have been arrested. they also say the operation was not related to terrorism. the independent police complaints commission has sent investigators to the scene. well our correspondent danny savage is at ainley top in west yorkshire. it is only in the last few minutes yasser yaqub has been named locally as the man shot dead here last night. we understand he is in his late 20s. he was here last night in one of those vehicles were the shots we re one of those vehicles were the shots were fired. the scene behind me, screens have been put up around the vehicles involved in last night s incident. what is happening is specialist officers are now on site trying to establish the exact sequence trying to establish the exact sequence of events that led to his death.
the nhs in england has rejected claims that there s a ‘humanitarian crisis in its hospitals. the comments from the british red cross come as figures show a&e departments have had to shut their doors to patients more than 140 times in december, because of a lack of beds. this afternoon the labour leader jeremy corbyn called upon the government to take urgent action but nhs england says plans are in place to cope and that talk of any humanitarian crisis is overblown. there are flashing images in smitha mundasad s report. winter pressures in accident & emergency some patients waiting a long time to be seen, beds closed because of the winter vomiting bug. this picture isn t new. but the british red cross says the strain on england s hospitals is so great it amounts to a humanitarian crisis. in recent years, red cross volunteers have been helping patients at home after spells in hospital. but the charity says that cuts to social care means patients do not have the right suppo
in sport: more pressure on arsene wenger, as arsenal are humiliated in the champions league. they are thrashed 5 1 by bayern munich in the last 16, 10 2 on aggregate. the last of the dambusters. we return to germany with the only surviving member of the air crews that carried out one of the second world war‘s most daring raids. and carol has the weather. thank you, good morning. the weather has a 3 way split across the country. windy conditions and showers in the north, dry and bright in the central swathes of the uk and in the central swathes of the uk and in the south, mild, cloudy and damp. i will have more details about 15 minutes. good morning. first, our main story: an upbeat assessment of the economy, but a warning that more austerity lies ahead they are expected to be the key messages when the chancellor, philip hammond, delivers first budget later today. he will stress that the government won t shirk difficult decisions to deal with the deficit. but he is expecte