hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are benjamin butterworth the late editor and senior reporter at the i and aubrey allegretti a political correspondent for the guardian. lets just give you a flavour of tomorrow s front pages, starting off with the financial times. the financial times leads with the eu s offer to scrap most of the customs checks on goods heading into northern ireland, but reports that this is brussels final offer. the metro splashes on comments made by prince william to the bbc. he says the effort going into the new space race would be better directed at solving climate change. the yorkshire post reports that the local police and crime commissioner is under pressure to resign following comments he made about the murder of sarah everard. the independent has more on brexit they ve been told the uk government believes the offer from the eu is not good enough. the guardian has a similar story sa
disagreement in the cabinet over the cost of living crisis with the chancellor reportedly saying there s no money to help households there s a similar story in the telegraph, which leads on the pressure now being faced by the chancellor to cut taxes. the financial times says elon musk s car company tesla has seen its share price fall. investors are worried about how he will finance his 44 billion dollar purchase of twitter. the sun reports reports claims from portuguese police and german prosecutors about the suspect in the madeleine mccann case. the mirror tells the story of a grandmotherfrom hartlepool who has given £11 million to charity this year alone after she won the lottery in 2019. so let s begin. thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us this evening. will get started with the front page of the metro, headline reading crunch time uk. quite a few front pages talk about this. the cost of shopping, of bills, apparently grocery bills now are an extra �
i know this will come as a surprise to many people and a disappointment to some, and i hope at least you will understand my decision. i know that others will, how shall i put it, cope with the news just fine. that is the great thing about living in a democracy. there is never a right time to resign high office, however, this is as good a time as any. budget 2024 is done, negotiations have not yet commenced on the next one, the institutions of the good friday agreement are working again, and our trading relationship with the uk in the post brexit era is settled and stable. the new taoiseach will have a full two months to prepare for the local and european elections and up to a year before the next general election. my reasons for stepping down are both personal and political. i believe this government can be re elected and i believe my party, fine gael, can gain seats in the next dail. most of all, i believe the re election of this three party government will be the right thin
pictures there because that is the back of barack obama, he goes in to see rishi sunak. the former us president here in the uk and downing street and going in to meet with rishi sunak. that is the picture liven downing street. we will return and talk more to our political correspondent about this visit and of course one of those headline stories again, news stories surrounding the future of rishi sunak, the british prime minister, in dismissing those rumours as simply coming out of the westminster bubble. but the former us president going inside number 10 downing street and we ll be back there very shortly on the programme. but let s start this hour in the middle east. the israeli army says it has killed the head of operations in hamas internal security force during a raid on gaza s biggest hospital. the military also made dozens of arrests in al shifa hospital in gaza city. palestinian health officials said a number of people were injured in the raid, but they could not be
shee desperation in gaza city today and the tiny window of hope. this crush is to get a few kilograms of flour. most don t manage it. there is nothing to eat or drink, she says. children are dying. there are massacres when planes drop aid and people die. the eu says israel is provoking famine and has turned gaza into a killing ground. gaza was, before the war, the greatest open air prison. today, it s the greatest open air graveyard. a graveyard for tens of thousands of people. and in that graveyard today, another round of battle this time at al shifa, gaza s largest hospital. teaming with the wounded in these recent pictures and home to many seeking shelter. now the israeli army is back again, hunting hamas, it says. soldiers shot their way in overnight, claiming they came under fire. doctors told the bbc three patients died because the electricity was cut off. the idf is conducting a high precision operation in limited areas of al shifa hospital. we know the senior ha