A number one priority. Here is our Political Correspondent helen catt. Here is our Political Correspondent helen catt. The Labour Leader arriving at a Football Club in the West Midlands, here to put the boot into the tories economic record and to explain what a Labour Government would do. Stability now is change its strange to say that in 2024 but a stable economy has to be the first step of an incoming Labour Government and that is what we will make an absolute priority if we are privileged enough to come in to serve. It comes at a leading think tank, the ifs, urged both labour and the tories to be open about the tough choices they will face over the countrys finances if elected. For rishi sunak, a low key visit, a cuppa with veterans in the north of england. He answered some gentle concern about his drenching in Downing Street. It was wet. The amount of people that gave me an umbrella over the last couple of days. But no questions from journalists instead a Treasury Minister defended
Time for a look at the weather across the uk with ben rich. And theres more bad weather on the way. Yes, for some things will get worse before they get better. Not least in the eastern dramatic developments tonight as hamas releases two americans a mother and daughter, judith and Natalie Ranaan into the care of the red cross after negotiations involving qatar. Hamas says it released the hostages on humanitarian grounds after President Biden decried them as inhumane. Two american hostages released so what does this mean for the fate of the nearly 200 that remain . Well hear from general david petreus, the former director of the cia. Will tonights hostage release impact israels plans for their offensive . Emir has been to the lebanese Israel Border where fighting there has intensified. What was that sound . This is the terrorist. What was that sound . This is the terrorist, the terrorists start the bombs well be speaking to professor lina khatib, the director of the soas middle eastern i
Journalist, brian stelter. First, the latest headlines. The uk is out of recession, after stronger than expected growth at the start of the year. The economy shrunk towards the end of 2023 as people faced higher prices in shops and higher Interest Rates. Piran ditta khan, the man who last month was found guilty of the 2005 murder of West Yorkshire Police Officer Sharon Beshenivsky has been jailed for life. The mother of three was shot dead as she and her colleague responded to a break in at a Travel Agents in bradford. The judge said that beshenivsky s courage and commitment to her duty that day cost her life. A Commuter Train has crashed in the argentine capital, buenos aires, injuring dozens of people. 30 people have been admitted to hospital, but there are no reports of fatalities. The train had just left one of the citys main stations when it hit the back of a stationary maintenance train. The duke and duchess of sussex have begun their visit to nigeria at an event in abuja. Its th
Whos Daughter Molly took her own life when her world turned dark online. He is with us this morning. Morning, morning. With me at the desk, journalistjane moore, author and storyteller irvine welsh, and nimco ali, activist and former conservative adviser. Good morning to all of you. Lets have a look at some of the front pages. Almost all the papers today lead with the allegations of rape and sexual abuse made against Russell Brand. Its been painstaking work by The Sunday Times and channel for over a long period of time. Their headline is Russell Brand, the sex predator who hid in plain sight. The observer has labour wants new eu links in a reset of policy. The Sunday Express says almost a million ditch crisis hit nhs and go private. Lets start with the biggest story of the day, these allegations against Russell Brand, which he has denied butjane, you have worked with him. What kind of person is he . It depends, i worked with him years ago in what i think he would freely admit where his
he said sort of cryptic things, migration is too high, yes, i think 700,000 were there it s too big, but today, for the first time in this campaign, he s been clear about a commitment to get the numbers down, which that is a different thing to saying i think it s too high, why? should the next general election be around that time, people like you and me will say you made a commitment in the last general election, how have you delivered against it? i also think it s significant because of the politics of it and the politics of it are pretty obvious and we should bill it out anyway. this is keir starmer, yet again, as he has every day since, though, it was a bit different at the start, he is trying to basically bash voters over the head with a message that he is moving the labour party way to the right of where it was in 2019 and 2017 general elections when their approach to immigration would ve been quite different to this. that is the message here. we can see this is the mess