Good evening. Welcome to bbc news. Britains most Senior Police officer says the governments refusal to increase police pay by three was like a punch on the nose. Cressida dick says she was extremely disappointed by the decision to give police a 2 rise despite an independent panel recommending it should be more. The home secretary, sajid javid, said he understood the pressures facing the police but had to consider affordability and fairness to taxpayers. It comes as a public spending watchdog called the governments approach to Police Funding ineffective. Our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds, reports from birmingham. Any of the units pleased that can assist. Modern policing. Four words doing more with less. Well, our rol is reactive and response shift. This sergeant is on duty in birmingham. But limited resources means hes doing 999 calls only. And there are plenty of those. Do you want to come out and have a chat, then . This ones gone from both a shopkeeper and his unhappy custo
the dear colleague letter from speaker johnson. tell us what you know about this agreement. we ve got a lot of numbers here. yes, symone. a lot of numbers. a little bit of a discrepancy and what we re hearing from republican leader, speaker johnson and democratic leaders. you mentioned we have that dear colleague letter that gives us the first sense of these top line members. you know, one point 59 trillion for fiscal year 2024, which republicans say allots 886 billion dollars in defense and 704 billion in non-defense. now, democrats are saying that they ve secured more than 772 billion in non defense spending. so, this is getting a little in the weeds here. but the difference is a side card dam deal that is a 69 billion dollars, that was negotiated as part of that speaker mccarthy, biden deal. and so, that is actually sticking around, explaining that discrepancy. what this does is it allows democrats to show that they ve got more money and it allows speaker johnson to kind
is it working? or do we need a drastic rethink? we talk to people on both sides of the debate. the bombing has caused upset right across the country, but how do those who have to investigate it and deal with its aftermath cope? chief superintendentjohn sutherland spent years on the front line of policing and will be talking about the toll dealing with such events can take. hello. welcome to the programme, we re live until 11.00 this morning. do get in touch on all the stories we re talking about this morning, general election campaigning resumes today and ukip will be launching their manifesto. we will be looking at that later in the programme. bbc news has been told that the police have stopped sharing information about the manchester bombing with officials in the united states, following a series of leaks thought to have come from the american intelligence community. last night, the new york times published photographs apparently showing fragments from the bomb and a backpa
to keep him alive. donald trump s travel ban takes effect after months of controversy. people from six mainly muslim countries and all refugees will now face a tougher time getting into the us. the president says it s designed to stop terrorism. hello, welcome to the programme, we re live until 11am. after a fall in knife crime, levels are now going back up in london. four people killed in four days this week. we are talking to a mum whose son was stabbed and killed and also to a man who lost his brother. do get in touch on all the stories we re talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today cladding fitted to grenfell tower during its refurbishment was changed to a version which cost nearly £300,000 less than the original version chosen, a document seen by the bbc has revealed. at least 80 people were killed when the tower block in west london was destroyed by fire two weeks
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