but iyou ve got it on a trajectory, it s gone up and it s then going to go down. well. hang on. just let s just explain exactly what happened. so in that 2020 budget, when rishi sunak was chancellor, it was the biggest ever increase. now, i then had to balance the books a year ago. it was an incredibly difficult situation, but it was necessary for the markets and it was necessary for the battle against inflation. so what i chose to do was to freeze that capital budget in cash terms, which is not a freeze in real terms. i hope as soon as we can afford to, we can get back to real terms growth. but i m absolutely committed to public investment. in a speech coming up shortly, the labour leader sir keir starmer is expected to say his party will have an obsession with economic growth to raise living standards. he will also say that labour won t be able to turn on the spending taps if it wins the next election. we ll bring that speech to you live here on bbc news. the gaza run hea
i m okay with it. i saw one of my lawyers the other day on television saying, oh, no, you don t want to do that for the president. i said, you don t beg for anything. it is the way it is. if that would happen, i don t know that the public would stand it, you know. i m not sure the public would stand for it. on house arrest? i think it would be tough for the public to take. you know, at a certain point there s a breaking point. that was donald trump yesterday with an ominous suggestion about how his supporters would respond to him being sentenced to jail after his conviction in the hush money case. we ll have much more of his comments as well as what president biden is now saying about the conviction just ahead. meanwhile, the president s son will be in court today in delaware for the start of his trial for federal gun charges. we ll bring you legal analysis on that case. and, plus, a possible major development to bring some peace to gaza with israel reportedly agr
wind we re house solomon in new york and this is cnn hello everyone. thanks for joining me. i m alison maratha in for fredricka whitfield. today. we re following several major developments around the globe that will present challenges for president biden at home and abroad this week the first us defense secretary lloyd austin, meeting with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy in singapore. today, secretary austin reiterated, quote wavering us support for ukraine in the face of russia s war were also awaiting word on hamas s response to a new ceasefire proposal with israel as detailed by president biden on friday, the president is expected to address these and other global challenges when he visits france to commemorate right, the 80th anniversary of the d-day invasion of normandy cnn s natasha bertrand and facil alvarez are tracking all of these stories for us. so natasha, you re in singapore. what happened at the meeting today? well, secretary of defense lloyd austin
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before the republican national convention where trump is expected to be picked as the party s official nominee. trump is planning to appeal yesterday, he gave a glimpse of how he intends to forge ahead with his campaign falsely calling the trial rigged and attacking the judge we had a conflicted judge highly conflicted there s never been a more conflicted, judge. you saw what happened to some of the witnesses that were in our sayyed, they were literally crucified by this man who looks like an angel, but he s really a devil just hours after that vinge volt press conference, president biden for the first time, commented on the verdict saying no one is above the law cnn s priscilla alvarez is joining us now in the studio with more on the response from president biden and priscilla, the president came out with strong words, but they ve been very careful. both he specifically and the broader campaign and the white house to really keep their distance from all of this, they cert