we will bring you more from our correspondent outside a hospital in a moment. a leading think tank, the institute for fiscal studies, has accused the main political parties of a conspiracy of silence over the economic reality behind plans set out in their election manifestos. the ifs analysed how the policies could impact the public finances and what that could mean for household incomes, public services and taxation. in its scathing assessment it said the parties were ducking the issues, by relying on faster growth to deliver more tax, which it said was far from guaranteed. it also warned the next government faced having to find new ways to raise taxes, or leave some public services exposed to billions of pounds worth of cuts. this a flavour of what the director of the ifs, pauljohnson, had to say. low growth, high debt, high interest payments mean we need to do something quite rare over the next few years just to stop debt spiralling ever upwards we need to run primar
that situation reversed. and he will hope to hear concrete commitments from him to work on that problem. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal has more on the talks. mr yoav gallant is here for the second time in washington, dc. last time he was here in march, he is meeting his counterpart, the defence secretary lloyd austin and you mentioned the secretary of state antony blinken as well as the head of the cia and he will be discussing the next phase of the war in gaza, but also those increasing tensions on the lebanese border, which is of huge concern for the americans because of concern about what that might open up in the middle east. the prosecutor for the international criminal court has requested an arrester for yoav gallant, alleging he is responsible for war crimes in gaza and crimes against humanity but the us has rejected that, and they see yoav gallant as a crucial voice and a crucial ally, especially since mr vote once a day voice and a crucial ally, espec
talks in washington, i spoke to our north america correspondent peter bowes. these are very wide ranging discussions. mr galante is on a several day visit to the united states meeting his us counterpart in about 2k hours time. in the last few hours, focusing on his meeting with antony blinken. this issue of trying to avoid further escalation has certainly been uppermost in their discussions. and really avoiding escalation on two fronts, escalation of the war in gaza between israel and hamas, but also concern about the skirmishes that we have seen on the northern border with lebanon with his brother over the last few days. and there is very real concern that those skirmishes could turn into something more serious and escalate into a wider middle east conflict. we understand that antony blinken has been putting some pressure on mr gallant to seek some sort of diplomatic resolution to that situation on the northern border to see the return home of lebanese families. so concerns
officers were wounded. state media is also reporting that a russian orthodox priest was killed in the attacks. the assailants have not been identified, but dagestan has in the past been the scene of islamist attacks. i m joined now by robert english, director of central european studies at the university of southern california, who specialises in the politics of russia. i want to get your thoughts in the fact that the russian investigative committee said it launched an investigation into acts of terror. what does that tell us? mat investigation into acts of terror. what does that tell us?- investigation into acts of terror. what does that tell us? not a great deal what does that tell us? not a great deal. it what does that tell us? not a great deal- it tells what does that tell us? not a great deal. it tells us what does that tell us? not a great deal. it tells us we what does that tell us? not a great deal. it tells us we have what does that tell us? not a great deal
as a police vehicle in the village of sergokal. local officials say at least ten people have been killed. most of the victims were police but also included a priest. religious buildings were set ablaze. six of the attackers are reported to have been killed and russia s counter terrorism agency said the active phase of its operation had ended. robert english is director of central european studies at the university of southern california, who specialises in the politics of russia. afp news agency reported that russia s investigative committee said it had launched an investigation over acts of terror . he outlined what that tells us. it tells us we have not caught the suspects yet. they have an idea that they are local militants, this was not a highly organised, co ordinated attack such as in moscow back in march carried out by the islamic state. but something of a more local and so my spontaneous nature. and semi spontaneous nature. heavily armed with automatic weapons but th