Good evening. From the newsroom. Im sam francis, a quick look at the headlines. At just after 9 00, government ministers are challenging labour to set out its own funding plans after it backed the governments decision to cut National Insurance. The non dom tax status will be scrapped with the aim of raising revenue to make up for the £0. 02 cut, though figures suggest any benefits for the taxpayer are likely to be cancelled out by an expected rise in council tax. Earlier, jeremy hunt told gb news that his budget is proof that the government, he says, is making their fiscal plan work. We want to end the unfairness, the direction of travel weve gone is to reduce National Insurance by one third. The fact that labour are opposing this today is really because labour dont have any plans to reduce taxation. It sort of makes my point for me, their plan is basically that tax should remain at its current levels. We say we dont have to levels. We say we dont have to accept the status quo. If you
Engardio. And a Founding Member with me it is fitting we are closing it together as well. Well be joined by supervisor safai shortly. Here he is. Make his grand late entrance. Todays meeting is extremely special we are joind and i think it might be according to commissioner plumber the second time board of supervisors have official low joined in a joint meeting with Youth Commission. I feel very xoit exclude honored to be at the second historic garthing. And i want to welcome this joint session with the Youth Commissions Civic Engagement committee and would like to introduce the 5 members all of whom are present today. We have the committee cochairs. Marine loftus and steven hum. The cochair. Approximate we have members Vanessa Pimentel, utting and e wan plumber. I would like to welcome board of education president. Kevin bog us. We were going to seat you feel fro to stay there if you want to stay there. Okay. And bullly sit in the box so you have microphones and whenever you would lik
Breaking hours ago, a massiveou air strikers targeting you irani embassy complersx in syria reportedly eliminating one of tehrans most senior military commander. Several iranian diplomates were killed in addition to the general and theyre vowing a i harsh military response to the attack. Well speak with john b barrasso in a moment. Trey yingst has the latest. Reporter we are learning more about this rare daytime r strikear in syria that reported killed topth iranian general. He is a man responsible for the irgcs activities across the middle east. Specifically though in syria, in lebanon, this is an individual who was responsible for coordinating the weapon shipments from iran to the locations that could threatenip not justme American Forces butee israeli troops operating in the northern part of the country. All of this in response to escalating tension across the middle east and we know that thi foreign minister of syria is r responding to the strike earlier today. Take a listen. We st
Premieres, domestic films and film openings, the program of the Moscow International Film Festival has become known. In the orenburg region, the number of areas covered by leashes is growing, and a state of emergency has been introduced in the akbulak region. The water came close to houses, about 300 residents were evacuated. Experts began to build a dam that should contain the river flood. About the situation in region. Our special correspondent, maria valieva, will tell you, we are currently in the village of akbulak, the ilek river has overflowed here, it is known that more than 270 people have already left their homes, another 26 were evacuated from here by employees of the ministry of emergency situations, now some people have returned in wetsuits to their homes, here in the village of akbulak a state of emergency has been introduced, at the moment the water continues to flow. To visit the microdistricts of orenburg, so in the aviagorodok2 microdistrict, apartment buildings are cu
Settlements. The head of the defenders of the fatherland foundation, anna tseveleva, at a meeting with Vladimir Putin, spoke about the results for less than a year of the organizations work. 12 thousand volunteer participants of the svo received a certificate of combat veterans. The total number of received applications is approx. Million, most have already been decided. Russian mortarmen in the southern donetsk direction destroyed the fortifications of the Ukrainian Armed forces and helped the attack aircraft improve their positions on the front line. At a meeting of the un Security Council, most participants condemned the attack on the iranian consulate in syria. Russian permanent representative vasily nebendya also said that moscow will present its document with a negative assessment of this attack. They began to collect humanitarian aid for the flood victims in the altai territory; special points were opened there where people bring the most necessary things. These are primarily. C