mr sunak said his working assumption is that a poll will be held in the second half of 202a. labour say he s delaying a vote because the tories are unpopular. here s mr sunak earlier. my working assumption is we will have a general election in the second half of this year, and in the meantime i have got lots that i want to get on with. this saturday, we will be introducing a significant tax cut for millions of people in work, worth on average £450 for an average worker, because we have halved inflation and we want to keep managing the economy well and cutting people s taxes. and i also want to keep tackling illegal migration. we cut the number of arrivals last year by over a third, but we have got more to do and we plan to get the rwanda scheme through parliament and up and running. so i have got plenty to get on with and that is what i am focusing on doing, delivering for the british people and it is great to be talking to people here in the east midlands about our progress
also on the programme. the latest developments in the middle east. including the funeral of a hamas deputy leader in lebanon. thousands of people were there. prince andrew and bill clinton are named in files relating to sex offenderjeffrey epstein. we ll look at what we ve learnt. and ai terrorism, stethescopes and keyboard keys. all in our weekly look at artificial intelligence ai. decoded is coming up. plenty of elections around the world this year. now know a bit more about what could be happening here in the uk. rishi sunak says the general election is likely to happen in the second half of this year . he didn t rule out it happening earlier but says his working assumption is later this year. opposition labour party leader keir starmer says sunak is squatting in downing street for months on end . here s our political editor chris mason reports. can i welcome to you this morning, rishi sunak, the prime minister? mansfield in nottinghamshire a town the conservatives
condemned internationally. now on bbc news, it s time for the interview with sheikh hasina. bangladesh s prime minister sheikh hasina has been in powerfor last 1a years. hersupporters hasina has been in powerfor last 1a years. her supporters described her as a saviour, and her critic says she is a dictator. they accuse her of human rights abuses. in a rare and wide ranging interview with the bbc, sheikh hasina sits down with yalda hakim to discuss some of the most important issues facing her country and the international community. she remains defiant when it comes to the treatment of the minority rohingya refugees and says that she is in no hurry to step down as the leader of the country. you are the world s longest serving female leader. often this bribed as the iron lady of bangladesh, you are the iron lady of bangladesh, you are the daughter of the founder of the country. i just the daughter of the founder of the country. ijust want the daughter of the founder of the coun
friday, they came up with a fourth batch. strange. more than a week ago, remember this, the search for documents was complete. [inaudible] it is completed, yes. not exactly completed. we do not know a lot about the amount of classified information let alone what the information contained in a seemingly carefully crafted statement. biden s personal attorney said the doj took possession of materials, including six items consisting of documents with classification markings and surrounding materials. a special assistant to the president will not say just how many classified documents in total were found across all three locations. that is a good question. it is a little bit complicated. we want to be very careful to be respectful of the integrity of that investigation. meanwhile, integrity. a funny word to use. nothing to see here. biden doesn t know anything. the important point as he had no idea. i do think this was inadvertent. how was this inadvertent? yesterda
israel says it s found, quote, concrete evidence of hamas terror headquarters inside gaza s largest hospital and hamas just acknowledged that hospital, al shifa, is now under the control of israeli forces. a heightened threat of a terror attack on americans. that new warning being delivered by the fbi director at this very moment. plus a high stakes sitdown nearly one year in the making is about to begin. president biden, china s president xi meet face to face. i m sara sidner with john berman and kate bolduan. this is cnn news we are getting new information on the israeli raid at the al shifa hospital inside northern gaza. this is the largest hospital in gaza. a short time ago israeli military officials said that they have uncovered concrete evidence of a hamas terror presence, a headquarters inside this hospital compound. you can see this aerial view of the compound. it s not just one building. it s several buildings. doctors, patient, staff inside the vari