comes amid an exodus of cubans trying to reach america. dancing trying to reach america. onto the red carpet, we look dancing onto the red carpet, we look at how the cannes film festival is looking at the end of its first week on the french riviera. polls have just opened in australia s general election to decide who will be the next prime minister. these are live pictures from a polling station in sydney. the race is between the incumbent scott morrison and his rival, the labor leader anthony albanese. whoever wins have tough challenges ahead the cost of living crisis is squeezing households, and many say climate change is making some parts of australia unliveable. more than 17 million people are enrolled to vote which is compulsory for over 18s. the bbc s shaimaa khalil joins us now from sydney. the polls have just opened, looking brisk so far? welcome to this polling looking brisk so far? welcome to this polling station - looking brisk so far? welcome to this polling
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Has said he wants top civil servants in scotland to be more accountable to politicians here in westminster, he wants uk ministers here in westminster to be more visible in scotland, as well, and has also said he wants public services in scotland publish more data to make it easier to make comparisons between, for example, how the nhs, which the scottish government is in charge of, is performing compared to the nhs in england. so these are a number of pledges that i think one of the key things to look out for is how far they go on some of the personal attacks of the snp and scottish government. remember liz truss in her hustings in exeter got a big round of applause and cheers for calling nicola sturgeon an attention seeker and saying the best thing to do would be to ignore her book rishi sunak called those comments complacent and dangerous and certainly i have heard from a number of scottish conservatives that while she might have got big cheers for those comments in exeter, it didn t
Plan for the largest tax cut in the history of the state. all of this is this can help relieve this economic pressure. jason: yeah. it s interesting, because if you look at what the state of new york did, they tried to suspend their gas tax. but as we look at the graphic here, the gas tax once it was suspended, the price of gas there in new york, it didn t go down. so here we have a month under the belt to look at this, and it s essentially the same. but compared to a year ago, it s obviously up quite significantly. yeah. the partial gas tax suspension was just one component of what was being discussed. when we re talking about reversing the state s ban on the safe extraction of natural gas, that taps more into the long-term solution. i believe that we need to approve new pipeline applications. there are a bunch of applications sitting in the state capitol in albany being delayed, denied, and aoc has
Plan for the largest tax cut in the history of the state. all of this is this can help relieve this economic pressure. jason: yeah. it s interesting, because if you look at what the state of new york did, they tried to suspend their gas tax. but as we look at the graphic here, the gas tax once it was suspended, the price of gas there in new york, it didn t go down. so here we have a month under the belt to look at this, and it s essentially the same. but compared to a year ago, it s obviously up quite significantly. yeah. the partial gas tax suspension was just one component of what was being discussed. when we re talking about reversing the state s ban on the safe extraction of natural gas, that taps more into the long-term solution. i believe that we need to approve new pipeline applications. there are a bunch of applications sitting in the state capitol in albany being delayed, denied, and aoc has