Using the Hashtag Bbcyourquestions petrol bombs are thrown and a bus is hijacked and set on fire in another night of violence in belfast. Northern irelands Power Sharing Executive will meet later. Myanmar s ambassador in the uk is locked out of his London Embassy saying he and his staff were told to leave the building by myanmar s military, because of his opposition to the coup in his country. Public transport prepares for the next phase of Lockdown Easing in england. The industry reassures travellers that trains and buses will be safe. Good morning. Welcome to bbc news. Ministers are reassuring the public about the safety of the aztrazeneca coroanvirus vaccine after the official advice changed to say that adults under 30 should be offered an Alternative Jab. The uk Medicines Regulator, the mhra, said the evidence had been firming up that a link exists between rare blood clots and the vaccine. Astrazeneca says it is working with officials to try to understand what is causing these extr
The humidity was up today, and thats good. And crews hope snow in the weekend forecast will help them get this fire finally under control. Norah. Odonnell so worried about those families. Omar villafranca, thank you. Newly released Court Documents indicate that a man found with a van full of weapons and explosive materials may have been plotting to harm joe biden. If so, it would be the latest violent threat against the former Vice President to be uncovered by authorities. Heres cbs jeff pegues. Reporter prosecutors say 19 yearold alexander treisman, arrested for possessing child pornography, posted evidence of wanting to kill president ial candidate joe biden. On his phone and social media, they found images from mass killings and an internet meme captioned, should i kill joe biden . Court documents show treisman had a fascination with mass shooting and had swastika drawings in his van. Court papers say in early may, he drove to within four miles of joe bidens delaware home after purc
The most and conservative thing i could do would be to cut taxes by increasing borrowing. Thats just cutting taxes and saying future generations have to pick up the tax after. I wont to do that. But i do want, where its possible to do so, responsibly, to move towards a lower tax economy, and id hope to show a pass in that direction. But this will be a prudent and responsible budget for long term growth, tackling inflation, my investments, morejobs, and thats path to lower taxation as and when we can afford it. But you said also, that the forecast from the obr, which is the economic watchdog which marks your homework, you have said that the numbers have gone against us. So the picture is bleaker than it was at the beginning of the year . Why then are you looking now to cut taxes at all . These forecasts change the whole time. What happened in the autumn was that the forecast went in our favour unexpectedly, quite close to the end. So i was able to introduce the biggest business tax cuts
From washington had sent pulses racing among some people, hoping that there may be an imminent agreement for a cease fire, however temporary, between hamas and israel. And the hamas delegation arriving in cairo today for the talks also expressed hope that a deal could be reached. And again, Optimism Sort of grew, but there were significant obstacles. And anybody covering this story over the last few months will know that often hopes of a ceasefire are dashed by realities on the ground. And one of israels obstacles and demands that was that hamas should present a detailed list of the hostages who would be released under the terms of any future agreement, of course, in exchange for palestinian prisoners in israeli jails. That list hasnt been provided by hamas. There are thought to be at about 134 hostages held by hamas and other groups in gaza. About 30 of those may actually be dead. And israel wanted to know who was still alive, who was going to be released. That hasnt been forthcoming.
welcome to our viewers this thursday morning. i m christine romans. donald trump giving us a review of what his 2024 campaign will look like and sound like. the 45th president and republican frontrunner for the white house taking questions last night from gop primary voters at a town hall. trump wasted little time in airing his same old grieveness as. he repeated a core lie to kaitlan collins that he won the 2020 election. polls show that you were dominating the republican race but also under active federal investigation for trying to overturn the 2020 election results. your first term ended with a deadly riot at the capitol and you still have not publicly acknowledged the 2020 election results. why should americans put you back in the white house? because we did fantastically. we got 12 million more votes than we had as you know in 2016. i actually say that we did far better in that election. got the most that anybody has ever gotten as a sitting president of the united