by the treasury. as chancellor rishi sunak attempts to get a grip on the public finances, borisjohnson has public finances, boris johnson has made clear he public finances, borisjohnson has made clear he thinks the priority should be better paid jobs rather than welfare. many people see that as far too simplistic and the prime minister will face considerable pressure on those in the next few weeks, notjust from opposition mps, as you would expect, but also from conservatives. we have six former tory work and pensions secretary saying it should be made permanent and we have tory backbenchers, cibicki won their seats for the first time in 2019 from labour, worried about the impact of this policy. this government has made a pretty big u turns over the course of the pandemic, for now boris johnson s policy is that as the restrictions and, so should these benefits. ., ~ , ., a restrictions and, so should these benefits. ., ~ , ., ., , benefits. thank you, nick eardley in westminster- the
alarming assessment. julia, thanks very much. thanks so much, jim. breaking news this hour, the president of haiti, jovenel moise has been killed overnight in his own home. a shocking chain of events there. tell us what s the latest we know. reporter: just extraordinary. we know that it was 1:00 a.m. when armed men got into that private residence. the president himself killed, his wife shot, but not mortally wounded as we under it so far. rather hospitalized, jim. an extraordinary series of events overnight in a country that was already facing such deep divisions politically, socially, economically. for months we ve seen protests against the very rule of moise who was killed overnight. what we ve heard, we heard from the acting prime minister, put in place in his power year rule, the 7th was about to take over.
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meeting with his national security team this morning, not about the rnc attack but about cyber in general. and about the ransomware attack over the weekend. he ll get an update, and we ll see where we go from there. hey, jen, it s sam stein here, good to see you this morning. good to see you. the breaking news this morning is a reported assassination of the president of haiti. has the president been briefed on this? what kind of message does he send to the people of haiti, and what would the u.s. government do to make sure there s some semblance of stability on an already pretty shattered island there. you re right. we all woke up to this news this morning this horrific attack, this tragic attack on the president of haiti and his wife overnight. we re still gathering information from this side. we ll be helpful in any way to the people of haiti, the government of haiti if there s an investigation. we re still assessing, still gathering information and the
this effort includes looking at how to stop these attacks and what authorities the government can leverage, and also the ways they can help these private companies harden their defenses. we do know that president biden is meeting today as we speak with key leaders from across the government including from the state department, the department of justice, the department of homeland security as well as the intelligence community, and that really does speak to the extent to which this ransomware effort really does hit all different parts of government and the need for an across-the-government kind of response to this. we do know that president biden raised this issue of ransomware this his meeting with russian president vladimir putin which happened three weeks ago today, and we know that this latest attack on this company kaseya appears to have been carried out by this russian-based group r evil, and the white house has not yet made a firm attribution here. but the white house press