welcome to the programme. plenty of elections around the world this year. now know a bit more about what could be happening here in the uk. rishi sunak says the general election is likely to happen in the second half of this year . he didn t rule out it happening earlier but says his working assumption is later this year. take a listen. so, look, my working assumption is we ll have a general election in the second half of this year, and in the meantime, i ve got lots that i want to get on with. that means cutting people s taxes this saturday. that s a tax cut worth £450 for the average person in work. we can do that because we d halved inflation. i want to keep going, managing the economy well and cutting people s taxes, but i also want to keep attacking illegal migration. last year, we got the numbers down by a third, and now we need to get our rwanda schema through parliament, up and running, so we have a full deterrent. and that s how we are really going to solve this
also on the programme. the latest developments in the middle east. including the funeral of a hamas deputy leader in lebanon. thousands of people were there. prince andrew and bill clinton are named in files relating to sex offenderjeffrey epstein. we ll look at what we ve learnt. and ai terrorism, stethescopes and keyboard keys. all in our weekly look at artificial intelligence ai. decoded is coming up. plenty of elections around the world this year. now know a bit more about what could be happening here in the uk. rishi sunak says the general election is likely to happen in the second half of this year . he didn t rule out it happening earlier but says his working assumption is later this year. opposition labour party leader keir starmer says sunak is squatting in downing street for months on end . here s our political editor chris mason reports. can i welcome to you this morning, rishi sunak, the prime minister? mansfield in nottinghamshire a town the conservatives
[sirens] intense rocket fire over the gaza strip. Is really, prepare for massive ground assault. We are pounding enemies with unprecedented force. I stress this is only the beginning. Irans Foreign Minister met with hamas leader in qatar to today. The Hamas Terror Organization is financially backed by irans government. These are truly evil people. We saw one range rockets coming off the gaza strip streaming through the night sky and our producer is telling me there are Air Raid Sirens sounding in tel aviv and joppa. Moving in position along the gaza strip, drones overhead, Artillery Vendors into the ni night. Welcome to the special two hour edition of one nation, thanks for being here recovering the war in israel, i am brian kilmeade. Fox news alert, his risk Ground Invasion delayed until next week due to Severe Weather, three senior it was really officials who spoke to the New York Times. Iran threatening to intervene if israel goes through with a Ground Attack which they are going to
[sirens] intense rocket fire over the gaza strip. Is really, prepare for massive ground assault. We are pounding enemies with unprecedented force. I stress this is only the beginning. Irans Foreign Minister met with hamas leader in qatar tod today. The Hamas Terror Organization is financially backed by irans government. These are truly evil people. We saw one range rockets coming off the gaza strip streaming through the night sky and our producer is telling me there are Air Raid Sirens sounding in tel aviv and joppa. Moving in position along the gaza strip, drones overhead, Artillery Vendors into the nig night. Welcome to the special two hour edition of one nation, thanks for being here recovering the war in israel, i am brian kilmeade. Fox news alert, his risk Ground Invasion delayed until next week due to Severe Weather, three senior it was really officials who spoke to the New York Times. Iran threatening to intervene if israel goes through with a Ground Attack which they are going
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