verified live, 3 hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. police have started digging near a reservoir in portugal, in the long running investigation into the disappearance of madeleine mccann. you can see on you can see on your screen you can see on your screen live pictures of the area where the police are searching. the arade dam is 50 kilometres from where the british toddler went missing in praia da luz 16 years ago. the operation is being led by german police looking for evidence to link her disappearance to christian brueckner, a german man who was made a formal suspect by portuguese prosecutors last year. our correspondent navtej johal is at the barragem do arade reservoir in the algarve where the search is taking place. so far today the search has been focused around the arade dam, this vast expanse of water you can see behind me, and you can see still a couple of officers wearing white forensic suits jutting out from the promontory in the
Children he murdered. And why does this tiny island in the South Pacific have more plastic rubbish washing up on its shore, than anywhere else in the world . Its 5 oclock. Our main story The Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has officially launched the partys General Election manifesto, describing it as a Blueprint For What Britain could be. He chose bradford for the event saying it was a radical and radical and responsible plan for government. Ben brown has been at the launch event and is in bradford for us now. Im ben brown live in bradford where The Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has officially launched the pa rtys General Election manifesto, some of the details of which were leaked last week. We now know that it includes proposals to renationalise the Water Companies as well as the railways and the royal mail. There would be more Free Childcare for two year olds and some one year olds. And University Tuition fees in england would be scrapped. 0n taxation, it proposes a 45p tax rate on earni
dependants into britain from january 202a. it s part of a plan to bring down overall migration levels. current rules allow postgraduate students studying courses lasting nine months or longer to bring partners and children to britain. they also allow international students to switch out of the student route into work routes before their studies have been completed, and that will also be removed in the new policy. the government said the number of dependants had jumped eightfold since 2019 to 136,000 people in 2022. for the year ending june 2022, net migration reached an all time high of 504,000, and numbers could be even higher in some new numbers that will be published on thursday. live now tojonathan portes, professor of economics, king s college london. it s great to have you on the programme. especially because you have heavily studied the impact of migration in the uk, so what do you make of this announcement? could
higher prices would be wrong and dishonest, but what we can do is take the sting out of a significant price shock for millions of families by making sure that increase in prices is smaller initially and spread over a longer period. responding to the government s package, here s the labour leader, keir starmer. it s a dodgy sort of buy now, pay later deal that doesn t come anywhere near meeting the cost or the increasing costs of energy bills. and it s really such a small response to a very, very big problem, and it s on the minds of so many people. let s turn tojonathan portes, professor of economics and public policy at university king s college london. he was also chief economist at the uk government s cabinet office from 2008 2011. nice to see you. so £350 per household in government assistance, that still means a rise of 350 quid on average for everyone and that s going to hit the poorest the