Good afternoon, and welcome to the bbc news at one. The Prime Minister says the governments first budget in october will be painful. Sir keir starmer was speaking in the rose garden at Downing Street ahead of parliaments return next week. He said labour had inherited an economic and societal black hole, but the conservatives called the Speech A Distraction from the promises he had no intention of keeping. Our Political Correspondent Hannah Miller reports. On Hannah Miller reports. A Beautiful Day in the down street on a Beautiful Day in the Downing Street garden, the Prime Ministers message was not so sunny. Looking ahead to the autumn and signalling unpopular announcements to come. There is a budget coming in october. It is going to be painful. We have no other choice, given the situation we are in. Those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heavy a burden. I will have to turn to the country and make big asks of you as well. He country and make big asks of you as well. ,. ,. ,.
scotland and england with narrow wins in the six nations yesterday. it isa it is a cloudy but mild day and blush it is a cloudy but mild day and blush day it is a cloudy but mild day and blush day for many. wetter especially in western scotland. news of things especially in western scotland. news of things turning colder this week. right of things turning colder this week. right here of things turning colder this week. right here on breakfast. it s sunday, the 4th of february. our top story: the uk hasjoined the us in striking houthi targets in yemen for a third time. last night, british and american forces launched strikes on 36 targets across 13 locations, in response to attacks on ships in the red sea. the uk s defence secretary, grant shapps, claimed the action was needed to protect innocent lives and preserve freedom of navigation but said it did not mark an escalation in the uk s involvement in the conflict. louisa pilbeam reports. british fighterjets taking off
have been told to stay put and to stay indoors. we are having that in terms of injured, there are potentially dozens of people injured. ambulances have been rushed to the scene, many, many ambulances. we were hearing from a journalist who works in prague who was telling me that gun crime is very low, generally, in the czech republic. authorities say the whole of the square and several streets around the university have been shut down. we had one witness talking about the fact that they suddenly heard a shooting. she was at the scene and told a czech news outlet which is then been reported by bbc news. we are getting information also that the shooting happened inside a university building, not outside. people on x, formerly known as twitter, if you look at videos, people are seen running away in the street from the university. we will bring you more on that story when we get it here on bbc news. a plan for any european football competition has been released of the european uni
urged the israeli prime minister to halt a pre emptive strike against his brother forces in lebanon, days after hamas militants, launched the october seven assault on southern israel, warning that such an attack could spark a wider regional war. this was the view across the israel lebanon border earlier today, where we ve seen a thick plume of black smoke in the sky as hostilities continue in that border area. let s start this hour by hearing from israel s prime minister. translation: last night, - i talked again with president biden. i do appreciate us steadfast position at the security council a position which backs our war effort. yesterday, i told president biden that we will fight until total victory, as long as it takes. the us understands this. i saw false reports that claimed the united states has prevented us from operational activities in the region. this is not true. israel is a sovereign country. our war decisions are based on our operational considerations
the government s asylum policy was like 1930s germany. also in the programme this lunchtime. an arctic blast sweeps through many parts of the uk with snow and ice causing travel problems. a big rise in the number of dog attacks recorded by police in england and wales. and a month on from the dramatic rescue of this man from the rubble of the turkish earthquake, he s reunited with the british search team who saved his life. and coming up on the bbc news channel andy murray expects russian and belarusian players will be allowed to play at wimbledon this summer, and says he doesn t mind if they do. good afternoon. in the last hour, the prime minister has been defending his government s new plan to stop migrants arriving illegally in the uk on small boats. rishi sunak told the house of commons that only the conservatives would stop the boats. but the labour leader sir keir starmer said the government is simply offering gimmicks and empty promises . the measures announced