challenges for customers to earn bonus points could be pushing people to spend more than they can afford. that s the warning from consumer groups. i ll be taking a look. in sport it s the start of a new adventure for emma hayes. we hear how she s settling in to her new manager role in the united states as she prepares to lead them into the olympics this summer. to lead them into the quite to lead them into the a cloudy start this morning. some quite a cloudy start this morning. some outbreaks of rain out there, but things should brighten up. a bit of sunshine developing in the afternoon. all of the details shortly. it s thursday 30th may. our main story. the conservatives and labour have both ruled out increasing vat if they are elected in five weeks time. the promises have raised questions about how the parties will fund their spending plans, and deliver on their commitments if they win the elction. our political correspondent damian grammaticas has this report. midnight
To need more assistance. what kind of assistance? well, there s a number of things that can be done. the equivalent of the berlin airlift as far as supplies, weaponry, and ammunition is something that ideally president biden can help do and help orchestrate in his meetings with nato leaders. that can certainly be helpful. another thing that can be done that is different than what s been done so far, i think it is time for nato, maybe under the auspices of the united nations, but to declare western ukraine as a humanitarian assistance zone. and what does that mean? that means west of kyiv all the way down probably as south as odesa would be designated as a humanitarian assistance zone with nato troops led by the united states enforcing that, and also a no-fly zone over western ukraine. now, there would be minimal
Go with russia. i want to turn back it s hard to see a venn diagram where the ukrainians and russians go away happy. i just don t see that. well, from a military point of view i wanted to ask you, general pittard, you are suggesting a humanitarian no fly zone over western ukraine. how would that work? it would be a humanitarian assistance zone. ideally under the auspices of the united nations but that may not happen, it may have to be nato and u.s. led working with president zelenskyy and ukraine we re carving out western ukraine down to odesa as a humanitarian assistance zone which would take nato troops led by the u.s. on the ground doing peace enforcement missions, being prepared for combat and also a no fly zone over western ukraine. i think it s time that if we re really serious about taking care of refugees and making sure humanitarian assistance takes place that that is done. well, look, anytime that
To our homeland, and we re going to remain focused on that. and having fought and sacrificed so much over the years, our troops led by you against the taliban, to see them naming haqqani leaders into their acting government in charge of security, these terrorists, all linked to al qaeda, how disconcerting is that to morale and to the force? well, it s troubling. as you look at their lineup thus far, it looks like the same folks that we saw of the four. i would point to the fact that they are cooperating with us in terms of our efforts to get our american citizens out of country, but i would not from that infer anything into the future. they re cooperating with us on this narrow set of issues and
Acting directors while tweeting about being all alone in the white house during a shut dodowf his own making while visiting troops led by an acting defense secretary during their activities. and huddling, trump huddling with his acting chief of staff, and you put it together, you get to a question that is uncomfortable for anyone rooting for the u.s. government to succeed, to remain open for business, let alone progress. if the top cabinet posts make this look increasingly like a permanently acting administration, at what point do we just have an acting president? and what are we going to do about it? we have a great panel here in our holiday week to get into this. david from, alessia menendez, and richard farley.