In hawaii, hasjust given this update. Its a very, very sad day in hawaii. It is devastating. And i know many families on maui are struggling right now as well as many Family Members across the state. We want to send our heartfelt love to them and our prayers to them. I am going to talk with two hats on, from here at the Convention Centre, we set up to accommodate 2,000 people. As the planes were leaving from maui, we realised that some of the people, in fact, a lot of the people that were coming to 0ahu from maui had made their own accommodation. We have a set up here that would accommodate 2,000 people. I want to really thank the team here because terry 0rton from the Convention Centre was here at four oclock in the Morning Setting up. They are doing an incrediblejob. People have been up all night. I really want to thank them for all of the work that they did, the red cross has been here helping us, nicky from the red cross. Thank you to all of those people. John monaghan and jerry gi
Economy and help families with permanent tax breaks. Labour will argue that any reductions will still leave people worse off because of the freezing of Tax Thresholds. Ben king reports. The background to todays budget has been gloomy, with the economy in recession. But it looks like the chancellor will still find room to cut taxes. The conservatives are trailing labour in the polls, and looking Forjeremy Hunt to give them some cheer in places like this, winchester, a seat the Lib Dems Hope to win. So what do people here think about tax cuts . I think it would be a good idea because it gives people more money to spend on what they want to buy. Realistically, people arent going to save that much money from a tax cut, whereas more money in Public Services means Better Health care services. Itsjust much more important. I would prefer not to have a tax cut, but to see more money invested in the community. If the Public Services were properly organised, theres more than enough money to do it
The israeli army has said it has operational control of their rafah crossing here, this is a fellow because mortars were fired from this area killing four other soldiers. We have not verified this ourselves but we have verified several videos circulating on social media of israeli armoured vehicles including this one, which appeared online this morning. It shows a tank ramming into two palestinian flags at the crossing on the gaza side. There is a long shadow stretching on the ground from west to east suggesting it was early in the morning. We have located it to hear by looking at pictures of Satellite Images of the crossing. Overnight, there was continuous israeli bombardment on the border city. We verified this video which was sent to the bbc by someone in khan younis looking towards rafah. You can see some of the players in the sky. Israel claims 20 hamas fighters have been killed but there are also reports of civilian casualties. Israel says it has warned people of it strikes. One