hello, i m matthew amroliwala. welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. now to a big political story in the uk, with the main opposition labour party being accused of a major u turn. the party is to announce that it will no longer spend £28 billion a year on environmental projects if it wins the general election. the party made the pledge 2.5 years ago. let s get more on this major political move. sir keir starmer has just been speaking about labour s green plans to our political editor chris mason. keir starmer, let s be clear. what are you binning today and what are you keeping? since we ve announced the green prosperity plan, we ve made a number of very important commitments, like green steel so we continue to make steel in this country, giga factories so we can do the next generation of cars, a national wealth fund so that we can have investment coming in for the jobs of the future, and green energy, which will be
Desantis as the man who could prevent their future National Nightmare of a return trump trip to the white house. Now the media consensus is that trump should be the nominee because he would be the easiest candidate for joe biden to be. That is up to question giving democratic doubts of the president s age and fitness the nap spill he took at the air force academy. Media favorite to media pinata. I am howard kurtz and this is media buzz. We will look at why Kevin Mccarthy dominated the Debt Ceiling Coverage over biden and how it is being spun. Ron desantis had indicated finally taking some swings at donald trump. Much of the media is peddling the florida governor. If you say cuomo did a better job with cuomo than kobe did, first of all, that is not what he used to say. His whole family moved to florida under my governorship. You dont think they will play dirty with ron desantis. They will burn this man to the ground. Somehow desantis would be part of it by lacking. Ron desantis coming o
could the disabled children whose mums took the anti epilepsy drug valproate finally be set to receive compensation? a report out tomorrow will call on the government to make payments of £100,000 to those harmed by sodium valproate because some women were not told of the risks taking it could pose. we ll talk live to these two women mothers, between them, of seven children with physial and learning disabilities who have been fighting for compensation for 12 years. 12 years. also tonight. our own mark urban s despatch from ukraine. almost two years into the conflict soldiers are exhausted. will the government s new recruitment plan provide the numbers needed 7 we ll understand it would be a very long war. 0ur soldiers have been fighting for two years. they are tired and exhausted so we cannot win. also liz truss is back today launching a new tory group called popular conservatism what does she know about that? conservatives have not taken on the left wing extremists
fox that it was found in a cubby used by guests and west wing staffers. reporters absolutely bombarding her with cocaine questions, as they should. she gave essentially no information but the repeatedly state that the president and first family were out of town when this happened. where exactly inside the west wing was the substance discovered who would have access to the west wing. have you done interviews with law enforcement. are you doing testing? would there be consequences for that individual or if they were a guest of a white house staffer. can you give any more details where the secret service found the cocaine in the west wing and how it got there? i would have to refer you to the secret service on all of this. one thing i can share that i will share a little bit more information as you know, the president and the first lady and their family were not here this weekend. julie: the president yesterday during a meeting with sweden s prime minister. [shoute