Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Chief Executive of the left Leaning Cross Party think tank, demos, polly mackenzie, and michael booker, Deputy Editor of The Sunday express. Lets take a look, and there is a certain story making every front page. Starting with the financial times, and the health and social Care Tax plans announced by the government. The paper reports that borisjohnson will Tomorrow Challenge Rebel tory mps in the commons to vote down his manifesto breaking £12 billion Tax Raising proposals, as he pushes to raise Britains Tax Burden to its highest level since 1950. The telegraph, picks up on that fact, too writing that the Prime Minister wants to raise taxes to their highest level since the second World War to bring in billions of pounds to tackle nhs Waiting Lists and the Social Care crisis. The times features a picture of borisjohnson during a visit to a Care Home in london today. He is quoted as saying
Against aldi over claims of Trademark Infringement good evening. We have the clearest evidence yet of the way the pressure on the nhs in dealing with the covid pandemic has affected its ability to treat other patients. The number of people now on hospital Waiting Lists in england reached its highest since records began nearly fifteen years ago. A total of 4. 7 Million People were waiting for routine operations and procedures in england at the end of february 2021. So lets take a look at those having to wait more than a year to start Hospital Treatment it stood atjust over 1,600 in february 2020. By this february 12 months on there are nearly 388 thousand patients waiting more than a year for treatment. Those numbers set out the huge and complex challenge facing the nhs how to make up the backlog of work. Today, borisjohnson said hed do whatever it takes to deal with the problem. 0ur health editor, hugh pym reports. Vicki has a Heart Condition and needs regular checkups with a cardiolog
Also in the programme. The former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin chooses not to give evidence in a dramatic final day of testimony in the George Floyd Murder trial. And the food fight over a childrens birthday cake. M s are going to court over colin the caterpillar and the aldi knock off. We will get an early adjudication from celebrityjudge rob rinder. Hello, im Laura Trevelyan In Washington, Christian Fraser is in london. When President Biden talked on the phone to President Putin two days ago, he warned him that the us was going to respond to russias provocations from Cyber Hacking to Election Interference. Us officials said the retaliation would be seen and unseen. Well today we got the seen part of it. In the next half hour the president will set out new sanctions that blacklist russian companies, make it harder for moscow to borrow money and the us is expelling ten Russian Diplomats accused of spying. The Biden Administration says the sanctions are retaliation for mosco
Fell to ground in kyiv. As you can see, there was a large explosion when it came down. And this is more video from kyiv its not clear if this is a separate incident, or the same debris filmed from another angle. This footage was filmed shortly after dawn in kyiv. You can see how there still appears to be Smoke Billowing from the area where the debris landed. Our correspondent paul adams is in kyiv and he gave us this update on what happened there in the early hours of the morning. We had had a succession of air raid alerts for about two or three hours before that. When the alerts come, they appear on your mobile phone and people can track where things are being fired from. And so the country as a whole was braced for attacks. Then at around 5 00 in the morning, we heard several explosions as we headed down to our secure bunker here in kyiv. And as we now know, those were, we think, all caused by intercepted missiles or drones. This was a combined attack using the smaller so called kami
to celebrate july 4th in several key battleground states. we ll show you how the presidential contenders marked the holiday. plus a federal judge orders the biden administration to stop talking with social media companies. what it means for the effort to tamp down misinformation about covid and so much more. and later which of these things is not like the other? looks like the gop needs to brush up on its social studies. how its twitter page mixed up the american flag. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, july 5th. i m jonathan lemire, and thanks for starting your day with us. we certainly hope you had a happy and safe july 4th. the white house celebrated america s independence yesterday with a barbecue, a concert, and of course plenty of fireworks. we re turning from a weekend at camp david, president joe biden addressed military members in the crowd who he called the protectors of democracy. you are the backbone, the reality of why we are