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now on bbc news the week in parliament. hello there, and welcome to the week in parliament, where the chancellor sets out his budget to repair the nation s finances after coronavirus. rishi sunak announces an extension to furlough and higher universal credit, but a freeze on tax thresholds and a tax increase for big business. i recognise they might not be popular, but they are honest. but labour reckons the plans fall short of what s needed. what we got was a budget that papered over the cracks rather than rebuilding the foundations. angry exchanges in the scottish parliament as the row over the alex salmond case continues. there s no argument. if nicola sturgeon broke the ministerial code. the argument is only- about how badly she broke it. this is just about desperate political games for the conservatives. also on this programme, cross party condemnation of a planned cut in aid for yemen. and, in a rare appearance before mps, david cameron says his government did pl ....
100 million users. the future of president trump s newly appointed attorney general, jeff sessions, is under threat after it emerged he had two undisclosed encounters with the russian ambassador to the united states, sergei kislyak, during last year s election campaign. as the country s chief law enforcement officer, mr sessions is in charge of the fbi, which is currently investigating alleged russian interference in the election. this all comes as the intelligence committee of the us house of representatives has decided to launch a formal investigation into allegations of collusion between donald trump s presidential campaign and the russian government. our correspondent tulip mazumdar is in washington. yet details emerged the and fast. new. this had been reported in the washington post in the us but it has been confirmed. we understand attorney generaljeff sessions did indeed have two conversations with the russian ambassador to the us last year during the election ....
it might be just extraordinarily difficult thing. and it might bejust be on us but if extraordinarily difficult thing. and it might be just be on us but if you look at the votes, we had a very high vote last year in east londonderry, the highest ever in assembly election, and we exceeded that again, another moo on top of last year, in the face of the daily onslaught every day since early december. it was an exceptional result in both constituencies in the north west. result in both constituencies in the north-west. as far as the overall picture is concerned, we have heard from your colleagues, arlene foster is underan from your colleagues, arlene foster is under an enormous amount of pressure but if you come back with around 30 seats and your vote is up around 30 seats and your vote is up a little bit and your share is up, 1.196, a little bit and your share is up, 1.1%, it will not necessarily be far from a bad day at the office for the dup? what happens after that? wel ....
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