details here on breakfast. it s sunday 3 march. our top story: the chancellor, jeremy hunt, has tried to play down expectations about tax cuts in wednesday s budget, telling the sunday telegraph he has to act responsibly. with three days to go until mr hunt lays out his plans, the treasury says measures worth millions of pounds will be introduced to boost productivity in the public sector. here is our political correspondent hannah miller. police drones that can assess road traffic accidents one solution chosen by the chancellor as he takes an overview of the economy that doesn t make easy reading. but jeremy hunt says £800 million worth of technology like this will help to make police and hospitals more efficient and save almost £2 billion in five years it was time. five years time. at a time when he has less money to play with them he would have hoped for, he is weighing up would have hoped for, he is weighing up what he can do to win votes. the chancellor is under
of unspun world. willa ramadan ceasefire affect benjamin netanyahu s push for total victory in the southern gaza city of rafah? israel needs hamas to believe that a terrible fate awaits hamas in rafah unless something changes on the ground. are donald trump s legal problems getting in the way of his re election? will the independent voters in the suburbs of america want to vote for a man who s been indicted this many times? and barricades, rotting food and tear gas europe s farmers are back and they re angry. what s different right now. is the reaction at leadership level and the intensity - of the anger that we re seeing. laughter and chatter do you like ice cream, too? asjoe biden found the other day, the problem with announcing that peace talks are making progress is that the two main sides are likely to deny it as part of their ongoing negotiating tactics. that s what happened almost immediately president biden said the words. my hope is, by next monday, we ll have a ce
were unfounded, politically motivated charges meant to suppress opposition. mr navalny always defended his innocence. he was only 47 years old. the kremlin denies it played any part in navalny s death. he spent his final days in a russian penal colony, where prison officials say he died after going on a walk. as the bbc s russia editor steve rosenberg reports, navalny was seen in good spirits just a day ago. smiling, crackingjokes, smiling, cracking jokes, this was alexei navalny yesterday as he gave testimony by video link from prison. even court officials managed a smile. but today, russia s prison service said that mr navalny was dead. it claimed that inside this penal colony he had fallen unconscious and that medical teams couldn t save him. russian tv rarely mentions navalny. it read out the prison service statement about his death and moved on to other news. he was vladimir putin s most vocal critic, a protest leader, and anti corruption campaigner, who had long clashed