At least £22. 5 billion has already been spent building the london to birmingham section, while over £2 billion has gone towards the second phase on things such as buying up land and property. Labour manchester mayor andy burnham said ditching the manchester link would be a permanent statement to people in the north that they were second class citizens when it came to transport. Lets discuss the pros and cons. Joining me now is Alexandra Hall chen, whos the principal Policy Advisor for sustainability, skills, and employment at the institute of directors. Good morning to you. This has been such a contentious story. Ever since the leaks came out weeks ago about the future for hsz. What weeks ago about the future for hs2. What do you make of this decision on the part of the government . Decision on the part of the government . The key here is about stability government . The key here is about stability and about stability and Policy Making. Any instability in the business environment, i
(vo) in three seconds, janice will win a speedboat. (woman) bingo! i m moving to the lake. gotta sell the house. (vo) ooh! that s a lot of work. (woman) ooh! (vo) don t worry. skip the hassels and sell directly to opendoor. (woman) bingo. (vo) get your competitive offer at opendoor dot com. good morning, lawrence. we ll have two miracle workers join us tonight. senators jon tester and sherrod brown, who somehow managed to get re-elected to the senate in states where no other democrat can win. but we begin tonight with our history lessons from professor laurence tribe, also andrew weissmann with us on this really historic night in the case of united states of america versus donald j. trump. looking forward to hearing that. the supreme court getting involved at this stage. even just to say to jack smith, we will consider what you re asking us to do. that alone is such a big deal. we will consider it, and we re ready to start hearing. we want your response by n
this programme continues on bbc one. the bombs stop dropping, and the aid starts to flow. the cessation of hostilities and the exchanges should continue tomorrow and are supposed to last four days, but president biden says he wants them to last longer. a unicef official in gaza tells us tonight the truce must indeed last longer. i have seen more children with most of them have come down from the north, so we will prioritise where the greatest needs are. and an update tonight from israel from the family of nine year old ohad, who has just been released with his mother and grandmother. my cousin had his ninth birthday in captivity. my cousin had his ninth birthday in captivity, so i think the only celebration we are going to have soon celebration we are going to have soon as celebration we are going to have soon as we celebration we are going to have soon as we are going to help him celebrate soon as we are going to help him celebrate his ninth birthday, spend it with
israeli military. the gaza with advance warning from the israeli military. israeli military. the israeli defence israeli military. the israeli defence minister - israeli military. the israeli defence minister says - israeli military. the israeli defence minister says the | defence minister says the humanitarian poses of an order for people to access food and water and would not interfere with israel s military objectives. the pauses are in some areas of gaza city, we understand in some areas around the salah al din road, two humanitarian corridors being set up, which hundreds of thousands have already used to head south, as well as on the coastal road. many of the people heading out of gaza city are having to do so on foot. they have left their homes and are heading to refugee camps in the south of gaza. talks continued to free more than 240 hostages still being held in gaza. the palestinian group islamic jihad released a video of hostages it claims to be holding. the hama
today i spoke with prime minister netanyahu and other senior officials about concrete steps to do that. president biden has consistently stressed the need for israel to operate in accordance with international humanitarian law and the protection of civilians must take place notjust in gaza but also in the west bank where incitement and extremist violence against palestinians must be stopped. we violence against palestinians must be stopped. violence against palestinians must be stopped. we asked our diplomatic must be stopped. we asked our diplomatic corresponded - must be stopped. we asked our diplomatic corresponded aboutl diplomatic corresponded about the status of aid going into gaza following anthony blink and s call for humanitarian pauses. and s call for humanitarian auses. ~ u, and s call for humanitarian auses. ~ a, and s call for humanitarian auses. ~ , pauses. the american say they have been pauses. the american say they have been putting pauses. the americ