The hamas fighters broke through the border fence from gaza at these points marked in green, and then reached these areas in red. Israel says 700 of its citizens have been killed, with many others taken hostage. Israel has compared it to the 9 11 attacks and in retaliation, its launched a wave of air strikes on gaza, where nearly 500 palestinians have died. Live now to my colleague anna foster, whos in ashkelon, close to the gaza border. We are only a few kilometres from the border and i can hear an israeli plane overhead and the regular sound of explosions, which have continued notjust of explosions, which have continued not just through the of explosions, which have continued notjust through the night but through the morning. We were in ashkelon this morning as people they are dived for cover, the Commander A Barrage of missiles that had been fired in from gaza. It is something the people here are used to, but sites like this feel very different. You can see Israeli Military vehicle
up their campaigns out across the country. let s take you through some of todays key events: rishi sunak and sir keir starmer go head to head in their second live tv debate later facing questions from voters on sky news in grimsby this evening. will either man change tack, or will it be more of the same? we ll be discussing all of that during the course of the day. and the green party launches its manifesto promising to raise taxes on higher earners and the wealthy to help fund 50 billion a yearfor the nhs and social care. also today: the cost of living is always important, and we ve just had figures out this morning showing that the uk economy failed to grow in april after particularly wet weather affected consumer spending. the office for national statistics recorded no growth for the month, which was in line with economists expectations. nevertheless it will be disappointing for the conservatives. here is hannah minna. the green party are pledging to mend what i call brok
A Textiles Company in yorkshire to find out how good we are exporting. In sport its not over yet for arsenal. Theyre up to fifth in the Premier League after beating southampton, just outside the Champions League places. And carol is out and about with the weather. Good morning. Iamat i am at Kenwood House in london where it is a beautiful yet chilly start to the day. For most of us it will be dry and sunny how whether there will be heavy downpours across parts of Southern England and south wales through the day. It will feel humid and some of us will reach 2a celsius. Do details in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Labours draft election manifesto has been leaked more than a week before its official launch. The 51 page document was obtained by the bbc and several newspapers. It includes proposals to Nationalise The Railways and the Postal Service. A plan to create publicly owned Energy Companies in every region of the uk and the introduction of price caps. And theres a c
That everybody wants. Many of the ideas have a popular ring on the doorstep. Will voters trust those bearing the message . David grossman has been gauging reaction. I normally vote for labour. Im a member of the labour party. But im loathe to say what i really think at the minute. Go on, tell me. No. And where does this manifesto fit into the political firmament . 0ur panel is raring to go, with our left right blackboard. Good evening. It was not so long ago we moaned about all Political Parties looking and sounding the same. Failure to offer proper choice to the voter, failure to bring anything new to the table. Well, no one looking at labours manifesto in whatever form it finally emerges can parrot that line now. If the leaked draft remains true to character, then this is a bold political treatise, and one were exploring across the show tonight. It offers a role for the state, perhaps not seen since the post war days of clement attlee. It seeks bigger National Services for both healt
But today the tories refused to confirm the National Living wage would reach nine pounds an hour by 2020 as George Osborne had previously announced. Our Political Editor nick watt is with us now. A big moment. It was. I have been trying to identify about how theresa may may take to fashion one nation conservative to her vision about how the country should be run and workers rights is that the hard and the reason for that is one of her insights from brexit was notjust about to leave the eu, it was a cry of anguish from people who feel left behind by globalisation. These pledges today are designed by her to show that she really means business about Making Globalisation Work for those people who feel left behind. She needs a mandate on this to face down critics in her own party. She lost a battle in the cabinet in the autumn about getting workers sitting on company boards, one person said this did not work in germany. That idea, it comes back, although the language and wording about who w