there was a time, before the war in ukraine, when europe thought about its place in the world, and how it could become less dependent on the united states. as washington turned inwards, and administrations refocused us foreign policy towards asia, france and germany talked about the need for strategic autonomy . but today in warsaw, at a meeting of the bucharest 9, it was the american president sat at the head of the table. all nine members of this group were part of the former soviet union or the defunct warsaw pact. the commitment of the united states to nato, i ve said it too many times, i ll say it again, is absolutely clear. article five is a sacred commitment the united states has made. we will defend literally every inch of nato, every inch of nato. and this is an important moment. i look forward to the discussion, the next steps we can take together and to keep our alliance strong and to further deter aggression. because what literally is at stake is notjust ukraine,
with columnists from the guardian, stephanie baker of bloomberg news and work of the sydney morning herald. so, cuts to income tax, corporation tax, national insurance and stamp duty and removing the cap on bankers bonuses. it will cost tens of billions and the government says it will boost growth, the labour party say it will reward the rich. stephanie, let s start with you. is this gamble for growth that s going to pay off? it s certainly a gamble, but i have doubts about whether it will pay off. kwasi kwarteng says he want to booth grouped by two and a half percent. but that s delivering a bit of a sugar rush, and i m not sure that will be sustained over the long term. some people have compared this to hitting the accelerator and slamming on the brakes at the same time because what you have is on the one hand, the bank of england trying to control inflation. trying to cool demand by hiking interest rates while the treasury s pumping money into the economy. so i think tha
Humanitarian reasons. Around 200 hostages are still being held in gaza, and israels airstrikes and total siege of the territory, cutting off food, water and medicines, will not end until all of them are freed. Desperately needed humanitarian aid has still not reached the besieged people of gaza. Emergency aid trucks stocked with supplies sit on the border with Egypt Waiting to be let across the Rafah Crossing as part of a deal to allow in limited aid. Lets bring you more now on the fate of those two american hostages freed by hamas. Us President Joe Biden spoke with the two women, telling them that their government will fully support them as they recover and heal. Our correspondent Barbara Plett usher brings us more from inside the halls of the State Department. The release of the hostages disrupted the day here at the State Department. We were sitting down for the Daily Briefing and then we were told that it would be delayed for two hours because of Breaking News. Now, they didnt say
Prime minister to think carefully about his response after israel vowed to exact a price from iran at a time of its choosing. There has been an Emergency Meeting of the Security Council where it was said that it is vital to avoid any action that could lead to Major Military confrontation on multiple fronts in the middle east. But israels ambassador rejected the call for the violence to stop saying this attack crossed every red line and israel reserves the legal right to retaliate. Irans ambassador said it was necessary and proportionate and carried out carefully to minimise the potential for escalation. They may try to overwhelm air defences with multiple ways of drones and missiles but the advance defence system destroyed most in the air with the help of allies. How is israel able to defend itself with the help of allies . First, they knew about the attack. It was telegraphed in advance. But the scale was significant with more than 300 weapons fired. Including more than 170 armed dron
and the whole thing. i m a very innocent man, and it s ok. i m fighting for our country. i m fighting for our constitution. our whole country is being rigged right now. this was done by the biden administration in order to wound or hurt an opponent, a political opponent. and i think it sjust a disgrace. and we ll keep fighting. we ll fight till the end and we ll win because our country has gone to hell. we don t have the same country any more. we have a divided mess where nation in decline, serious decline, millions and millions of people pouring into our country right now from prisons and from mental institutions, terrorists. and they re taking over our country. we have a country that s in big trouble. but this was a rigged decision right from day one with a conflicted judge who should have never been allowed to try this case never. and we will fight for our constitution. this is long from over. thank you very much. that was the statement from donald trump. live to new yor