Now on bbc news. Newscast hello. Hello, laura. And hello, henry. Hi, henry. Hi. So last night, i was at my friend toms birthday party, and hes a very good amateur poet, and he did a lovely poem saying thank you to everyone whod come to the party. Happy birthday, tom. But hes also a big newscast fan and an even biggerfan of sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Even happier birthday. So i thought, why not combine all those things together and do a poem about this weeks sunday with Laura Kuenssberg . Oh, my god. Here we go. Are you ready . Howards Double Barrelled Chef on sunday with laura kay. Politicians exaggerations going to get slayed. But first, this breaking news, a picture of recovering kate. But with all the twitter gossip, did it come too late . Rachel reeves bets all on economic growth. Vicky atkins asked why nhs productivity sloweth, but waits this weekend episode has no pad, fear not newscasters you can always call up add. I think thats extremely good, tom. And we all say one and al
The truth is taxes are still going up. People feel worse off because they are worse off. So this morning, we have one big question in what direction would labour drive the economy . The woman in charge of the partys calculator, Rachel Reeves, who wants to be the next chancellor is here. The budget promised extra cash to get more bang for taxpayers bucks in the Health Service. Well ask the health secretary, victoria atkins, what difference that will make. And whats it like when your body wont do the Amazing Things you used to do the lead singer of del amitri tells us how parkinsons hasnt stopped him taking to the stage. Morning, morning. Helping me out at the desk for the next 60 minutes, chef and green campaigner Hugh Fearnley whittingstall, john lewis boss dame sharon white, and lord michael howard, former conservative leader, and one time Shadow Chancellor, too. A very warm welcome to all of you. Making the news this morning. The sunday times says Boris Johnson went to venezuela, and
The battle of the blockbusters will be decided later at the biggest night in the entertainment calendar. Will barbie or oppenheimer win big at the oscars . As we heard earlier the budget the government unveiled on wednesday has left the Shadow Chancellor with a major headache. Jeremy hunt cut National Insurance by 2 pence for the second time in six months, as well as stealing two of labours fund raising policies. The party had planned to use these to Fund Breakfast clubs in schools and reduce nhs Waiting Lists, if it wins the next election. Earlier, the Shadow Chancellor, Rachel Reeves spoke to the bbc s Laura Kuennsberg about how they plan to raise money now, starting with establishing a taskforce to help create a National Wealth fund. The National Wealth fund is a key component of the growth plan and the idea is to leveraging the private Sector Investment alongside a Government Endowment to invest in some of thejobs Government Endowment to invest in some of the jobs and industries of
on so many innocent people. hello. welcome to what is the last edition of outside source. but it s no different to all the ones that have gone before. we re going to have a detailed rundown of some of the biggest stories of the day. and we ll start in russia, because a court in moscow has ordered that a us journalist is kept in custody over spying charges. americanjournalist is american journalist is kept in custody over spying charges. american journalist is kept in custody over spying charges. the journalist in question is evan gershkovich. he works for the wall streetjournal. russia s security service the fsb it says the journalist was acting on us instructions. and that he had collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of a russian defence enterprise. the wall streetjournal denies he has done anything wrong. we ve heard from the kremlin too. translation: this is - the prerogative of the fsb. you already had a statement about this from the