A general election. The backdrop a flat lining Economy Millions struggling with the cost of living and polling indicating the Conservative Party is lagging far behind the opposition. Not to mention Financial Markets on edge for anything that might worsen the uks finances. The memory of Prime Minister liz truss s disastrous Tax Cutting Budget no doubt not far from mr hunts mind. So lets remind ourselves what he came up with. The rate of National Insurance paid by employees and the self employed, will be cut again by 2 pence in the pound. That comes on top of an earlier 2p cut mr hunt announced in the autumn. In april, full Child Benefits will be paid to households, where the highest earning parent is getting up to £60,000. The current limit is £50,000. And the non dom tax break for wealthy uk residents whose permanent home is overseas, is to be scrapped raising £2. 7 billion a year for the government. That announcement is highly controversial as it was a key pillar of labour policy.
In a high security penal colony. Western governments and human Rights Groups universally condemned it but there is little they can do to help him. Having already allegedly poisoned him with nerve agent, it seems the kremlin intend to silence him forever behind the highest walls in the country. His treatment during imprisonment has been grim hes been subject to sleep deprivation, there have been long stretches of solitary confinement, he has even been forced to listen to Vladimir Putins speeches repeatedly. And he has been Hunger Strike. The Alexei Navalny on our screens today is a pale shadow of the man that was arrested two years ago. In the last hour or so following his extended sentence,we heard extended sentence, we heard from navalny in a post on x, the app formerly known as twitter. He told his almost Three Million followers 19 years in a maximum security penal colony. The number of years does not matter. I perfectly understand that, like Many Political prisoners, i am sitting on
now on bbc news, click. this week, we re bringing power to the flower. shiona is in kenya with the drones and ai that are dealing with the changing climate of this blooming industry. when we come and we monitor these crops using the drones, we are able to, first of all, get accurate numbers because we re seeing each and every stem. romana s in finland to see how we can keep a smarter eye on our loved ones. warm milk, wailing and walkies, lara s looking at baby gadgets. but for the star feature, let me just take the baby out. boing! not an actual child. did you reallyjust do that? tough love. works every time. and don t go in the water. james clayton meets a shark tracker who s made a great white discovery. are there any moments that you filmed where you felt nervous for the people in the water? i d say yes. we re starting the programme in kenya, where agriculture plays a huge part in many people s livelihoods. in fact, the industry employs more than 40% of the total populatio
now on bbc news, click this week, we re bringing power to the flower. shiona is in kenya with the drones and ai that are dealing with the changing climate of this blooming industry. when we come and we monitor these crops using the drones, we are able to, first of all, get accurate numbers because we re seeing each and every stem. romana s in finland to see how we can keep a smarter eye on our loved ones. warm milk, wailing and walkies, lara s looking at baby gadgets. but for the star feature, let me just take the baby out. boing! not an actual child. did you reallyjust do that? tough love. works every time. and don t go in the water. james clayton meets a shark tracker who s made a great white discovery. are there any moments that you filmed where you felt nervous for the people in the water? i d say yes. we re starting the programme in kenya, where agriculture plays a huge part in many people s livelihoods. in fact, the industry employs more than 40% of the total population
tech bosses including meta s mark zuckerberg and linda yaccarino of x have been accused of having blood on their hands by a powerul us senate committee in washington. the hearing was called as concerns rise about children s mental health and safety online. politicians say big tech companies are not doing enough to protect children from sexual exploitation. they have been debating tougher laws, and demanded executives explain what has been done so far. in his opening remarks, senator lindsay graham, the top republican on the committee, took aim at facebook founder and ceo, mark zuckerburg. mr zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, i know you don t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your you have a product that is killing people. and i use it, we all use it. there s an upside everything here. of the dark side has not been dealt with. it s now time to deal with the dark side because people have taken youridea dark side because people have taken your idea and they ha