SpIrIt, a polItIcal correspondent for the tImes and Andrew FIsher who wrItes for the I. Thank you both for beIng wIth us. Tell me lara what do you thInk KeIr Starmer has do today . When you speak to people In labour about what they want to achIeve, they want KeIr Starmer to put a stamp on thIs conference and say what he belIeves In and what the government Is for, we have had ale dIffIcult couple of weeks for the government, we have had storIes about donor gate, freebIes and dIffIcult storIes about the salary of chIef of staff. Some are sayIng that Is because there a voId that starmer has left and Into that voId he needs to state what It Is he needs. So we need to see from hIm today there Is a real sense he needs to stamp hIs authorIty on thIs conference. Another thIn andrew was the sense we got from the government about tough decIsIon, the WInter Fuel Payment whIch was a contentIous decIsIon about that for mIllIons and we have heard from some sayIng you need to Inject more optImIsm whI
Sir Keir Starmer will say there is light at the end of the tunnel in the form of faster ecOnomic growth and falling nhs Waiting Lists, but hell warn there are no easy answers. Well bring you full coverage of that as it happens 2pm. The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has addressed the cOnference in the last Hour And Lisa nandy, the secretary for culture, Media And Sport is expected to speak in about half an hour. So, dOnt anyOne tell me that was a protest. DOnt anyOne tell me that was about immigratiOn, policing or poverty. Plenty of people have strOng views On immigratiOn, crime, On the nhs and more, but they dOnt pick up breaks and throw them at the police. They dOnt set light to buildings with people inside. It was arsOn, it was racism, it was thuggery, it was a crime. Applause and you know it happened because criminals thought they could get away with it. They saw the cracks in the system, the impunity that built up system, the impunity that built up through the tory years, and when t
We start in the middle east, where israel says hezbollah has fired over 150 missiles into the country, following extensive israeli Air Strikes in lebanon on saturday. The rockets targeted the city of haifa, nearly 30km from the border with lebanon, and the Ramat David Airbase further south. In the city, and in areas near the northern border, in anticipation of a fresh aerial assault. These pictures show part of an intercepted rocket that was launched from lebanon and fell near nazareth in the early hours of sunday. Israel has been carrying out more Air Raids in southern lebanon. Saturday saw constant strikes and counter strikes between the idf and hezbollah, which is designated a Terrorist Organisation by several western countries. In a statement, prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said israel had inflicted a series of heavy blows on hezbollah, saying if they havent understood the message yet, they will. Lebanons Health Ministry now says 45 people, including women and children, were kil
Paddy, are you there . Icertainly am. Theres probably a delay because liverpool to london by modern tech means youll sound like youre in space. Henry, are you there . I am, and i am also in liverpool, but about 20 minutes away from laura, so i dont know whether that means a slightly shorter delay. Well, were not in space, but we are together for Sundays Edition of Newscast. And theres a lot of News around, isnt there . Its the first proper full day, i suppose, of the Labour Party Conference, and its getting going. But more stories this morning about donations and holidays and dresses and awkward, embarrassing things that the Labour Party really wishes would just go away. But will they . So lets get under way with the Sunday Episode of Newscast. Newscast. Newscast from the bbc. Hello. Its paddy in the studio in london. And its laura in a beautiful set by the River Mersey in liverpool. And its henry in a portacabin round the back of the mens toilets at the liverpool, uh, venue forthe Lab
Hello, youre watching the context on bbc news. Its been revealed that Keir Starmer s top adviser, Sue Gray, now earns more than the Prime Minister. Weve been told that shes now on a salary of £170,000. More than 100 charities and Aid Agencies have urged sir Keir Starmer to protect foreign Aid Spending amid fears the budget could fall to its lowest level since 2007. The unease comes ahead of the Budget Set to be unveiled by the chancellor in october and with increasing aid being spent here in the uk, To Support Refugees and Asylum Seekers. The previous government had counteracted this adding £2. 5 billion to the foreign Aid Budget, as a Top Up to compensate for the money being spent in britain. But where does the uk stand internationally . The un target for foreign Aid Spending is 0. 7 of a countrys gross national income. That figure is widely accepted among the international community and the uk made a legal commitment to it in 2015. But in reality according to the oecd, just 5 count