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initially, there were two other medical camps set closer to the central business district, with volunteer medical personnel taking care of the injured people, giving them emergency treatment before referring them here, but those have now been closed. we saw earlier the general service unit getting into one of the camps that was at the all saints cathedral and asking the medical providers to pack up and leave, and also everybody who was in that compound was asked to leave, so this is now the main area where casualties and people injured from the protests are coming to get treatment. mercy has also been out on the streets, where protesters continue to march. she sent this short update. quite a busy day in the nairobi central business district today, with thousands of the anti finance bill 2024 demonstrators lining up every major street in the cbd. they are making antigovernment and anti finance bill chants. we reject, we reject! ..but in equal measure, there are dozen ....
make specific proposals on taxes u nless make specific proposals on taxes unless i am absolutely sure i can deliver on those. it would be my intentions of a conservative government and a conservative prime minister, to reduce the taxes on working families. later, she went further in clarifying her plans. we won t be increasing vat, but what i wa nt to won t be increasing vat, but what i want to ensure is we are able to have the strong. you definitely won t raise vat, that is a 100% commitment? where will extra money come from to pay for schools, hospitals and social care? the prime minister hinted the long term plan for that would be in her manifesto. labour says it would make those at the top pay more. we would end the tax giveaways to the rich. we would demonstrate how we would fund those. let me give this assurance, there will be no increases in income tax for middle and low earners. labour is guaranteeing the state pension will continue to rise by 2.5% a year. there ....
good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. theresa may has said there will be no increase in vat if the conservatives win the general election. however, the prime minister has given her clearest signal yet that her party will abandon its promise not to raise income tax or national insurance contributions. labour has also promised not to raise vat. the shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, said he would end what he called giveaways to the rich , while labour would protect low and middle earners. our political correspondent leila nathoo reports. in the swing of an election campaign, there is, for some, an unmentionable word. so far, theresa may has skirted around the issue of whether her government would increase taxes but this morning she gave her strongest indication yet not to raise national insurance, income tax or vat. we have no plans to increase the level of tax, but i am also very clear i don t want to make specific proposals on taxes unless i am absolutely sure i can ....
but today the tories refused to confirm the national living wage would reach nine pounds an hour by 2020 as george osborne had previously announced. our political editor nick watt is with us now. a big moment. it was. i have been trying to identify about how theresa may may take to fashion one nation conservative to her vision about how the country should be run and workers‘ rights is that the hard and the reason for that is one of her insights from brexit was notjust about to leave the eu, it was a cry of anguish from people who feel left behind by globalisation. these pledges today are designed by her to show that she really means business about making globalisation work for those people who feel left behind. she needs a mandate on this to face down critics in her own party. she lost a battle in the cabinet in the autumn about getting workers sitting on company boards, one person said this did not work in germany. that idea, it comes back, although the language ....
it is sam is tuesday the greatest newsday. it is 8am in singapore and iam in london. marawi has been under siege for nearly a week by islamist militants. on monday, the government has said it made decisive progress to retake the city but at least 100 civilians have been killed and 2000 people may still be trapped in militant held areas. our correspondent has more. we do not know how long it will take. they have been hard to evict from the city. i do not think anyone can put a timeline on it. they can 110w can put a timeline on it. they can now control people going in and out of the city. once this is over, people will want to know how many of the group that got involved in the attack, this hardline militant group, how many of them managed to escape and once that is done, there are bigger question is that the philippines government have tienza and one is how this terrible battle which has caused so much damage was allowed to take place. it was supposed to be a routine ....