the chancellor, rachel reeves, has promised to make kick starting economic growth a national mission . a key part of that is a plan to reintroduce compulsory house building targets, as our chief economics correspondent dharshini david reports. how do you go about building prosperity? loosening red tape to revive private investment in home building and energy infrastructure form the foundation of today s plans, aimed at underpinning a decade of renewal. it will be up to local communities to decide where the housing is built but it has to be built. if the answer is always no, we ll continue as we are and continuing as we are means living standards continuing to decline and it means public services continuing to deteriorate. the plans involve reviving mandatory house building targets, allowing development on so called grey belt, parts of the protected green belt already built on, and lifting a ban on onshore wind powered developments. she knows she may be in for a fight. how pr
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as europe struggles with slow covid vaccine roll out, we ll look at the countries turning to russia, china and israel for help. the us has announced sanctions on russian individuals over the poisoning of opposition leader alexei navalny. the measures target seven government officials and entities. these sanctions are being co ordinated with similar moves by the european union, which has sanctioned four russian officials. on four russian officials. this is alexei navalny. you may remember he was sent to jail injanuary for breaking his probation. he d done so because he d just returned from germany, where he d been flown for treatment after being poisoned by the nerve agent novichok. barbara plett usher, washington. help us understand the calculations targeting individuals rather than targeting individuals rather than targeting russia as a country. 50. targeting russia as a country. so, the americans targeting russia as a country. srr, the americans have targeting russia as a
fa cup final in a row. good morning. the warmest day of the year so far on good friday with temperatures soaring to 23.1; degrees in london. today it will be cooler, there will be sunshine and showers and strong winds developing across the north west. all the details throughout the programme. it s monday 18th april. our main story. russian air strikes have hit multiple targets across ukraine it s as residents of the eastern luhansk region are being urged to evacuate immediately. meanwhile, ukrainian forces are holding on in the besieged port city of mariupol that s despite ignoring demands from the kremlin to surrender. sean dilley reports. mariupol has not yet fallen technically. ukrainian troops who had until recently defended the now occupied streets are held up in the city s vast azovstal steelworks, despite an ultimatum by president putin s forces to surrender no later than yesterday. russian troops know that ukrainians are waiting inside, ready to welcome them wit
deaths for two years, as a strict lockdown continues. scotland becomes the last place in the uk to remove the legal requirement people to wear face masks in indoor public spaces. and south africa has sent in thousands of troops to help rescue efforts in kwazulu natal where floods and mudslides have killed more than 400 people. russia has redoubled its pounding of ukraine targets, including a missile attack on the western ukrainian city of lviv. the latest reports say six people have been killed, the latest reports say seven people have been killed, and eight wounded in a city which until now has largely escaped unscathed since the russian invasion. smoke was seen rising from the outskirts and residents spoke of hearing five explosions. footage later emerged of the impact on residential areas. there s been an intensification of the russian bombardment with multiple cities and towns across ukraine targeted by air strikes and shelling. russia says it hit more than 300 targets