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
all right, john on the show, i ll take it over. i m laura ingraham. this is ingraham angle from washington tonight, mother nature s laughing. that s the focus of tonight s angle. last month was the hottest june on record heat, then carried through into july as a new high. global average temperature was set on monday and then broken the very next day, triple digit heat index through the end of the week. it s hot, hot, hot. all right. after all, we re in the middle of a season called summer. now, fast forward a few years and imagine that one morning you wake up to cook breakfast, you turn on the stove and the gas doesn t work and your living room is kind of cold so you try to turn up the heat, but the thermostat won t go past 64. then you re just so fed up. you jump in your car you drive to get gas because the tanks empty. but every you pull into, it s closed. then an emergency bulletin comes across your cell phone saying that for the foreseeable future, americans are ins
aid budget by 2026 to reach it. earlier, i spoke with michael wilkins, executive director of the centre for climate finance and investment at imperial college london. it s a little bit of a surprise if indeed it s true that the government will be remeasuring on its previous commitments of international climate finance, especially given that we re in the run up to the next climate change summit taking place in november, in the united arab emirates where this topic is bound to come up. and the uk s commitments, which were hopeful in glasgow only two years ago at cop26, will be looked into question. so it was a bit surprising when i saw it this morning. what kind of difference is this money do to make? due to make? well, you have to put into context, really, in terms of the amount of funding required to tackle the causes and the effects of climate change in the developing world. the poorer countries need massive amounts of investment, and they are just not getting it. you kno