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. ,. ,. ,.
John august twenty fifth and one says last square. local residents have been called on to bring all activity in the capital to a standstill for an hour accompanied by the sound of sirens and car horns. but people here do not yet know the meetings in moscow will end with a total capitulation. all the recent reforms are revoked censorship restored. czech leaders liked object progressively remove. the so-called temporary presence of soviet troops in czechoslovakia will continue for twenty years until nine hundred ninety one.
A flag that says free hugs, and all night long i have seen people going up to him and hugging. very much, it does feel like a friday night out. it s just when you look a little bit more closely, every 50 yards you see these heavily armed guards with military-grade weapons, and every few minutes you do hear the sound of sirens, of police cars going by. and you ve been talking to people, as i have. i was at dinner the other night and there were two men there, and maybe it s a cliche, but one of them looked like he could be a linebacker in the nfl. and i asked them, you know, why did you come out tonight? are you afraid? and they both said they were very much afraid. they came out because they wanted to show defiance, and there we see the sign for free hugs. but there is this push and pull. people want to stay home, be with their families, be with their friends, and they are afraid to go out, but it does seem this has become a key gathering place. it has, and i think that the bigges