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won't the people out by our side, the good side menu are asking for the removal of brazil supreme court. in electoral court, justices whom they accused of conspiring against bull sonata. all the president himself has been casting down on the country's electronic voting system. was opposition leaders including lola accused bull, so narrow of abusing his powers president to campaign for his reelection on independence. stable. so he'll warmer cuz when i was president of brazil, i never used the most important vessel this in our country. the independence didn't as an instrument of electoral campaign rule as workers party has taken this accusation to the electoral court. monica, and our give, i'll just 0 rio de janeiro. ah, hello, are you watching al jazeera, these are the headlines this hour. the u. k. is new prime minister has announced
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a new price cap on energy bills to protect consumers from soaring prices. is trust says the average annual household bill for gas and electricity will be kept at $2500.00 pounds. that's around $2900.00. but the prime minister has ruled out opposition calls to extend a tax on energy company profits. and i can tell the house to day that we will not be giving in to the leader of the opposition. oh, for this to be funded through when pull tabs. that would undermine the national interest by discouraging the very investment we need. i us secretary of state antony blinking has arrived on an unannounced visit to cave in a show of american support. it comes just as ukrainian president of me. zalinski says trips and making advances in the counter offensive to retake cities from
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russia. us secretary of defense lloyd austin, has announced the united states light as military aid package, the ukraine, which is worth $675000000.00. take his president, range of type, one has made his croatian counterpart, zoer, and milan in greb. one arrived in croatia on the last leg of the 3 nation vulcan to his visit, his part of an effort to further strengthen cooperation between turkey and the region. sure. lincoln, president, runner, vic, rema thing has increased the size of his government, swearing in 37 junior ministers. all that 3 of them, a members of the ruling s l p paid big grimacing. it says the extra m p 's will help create a more stable government to better deal with the countries. economic crisis and
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a group of palestinian activists in garza have held his ceremony to honest slain al jazeera journalist, sharina. it comes days after the israeli military admitted for the 1st time that sharon was likely killed by one of the soldiers that said it won't be pursuing a criminal investigation. all right, those are the headlines i'm emily, angling. the news continues here, announces era, after inside story to stay with us. ah, grace, you prime minister promise is why 2 days ahead list ross takes over from boys johnson after divisive leadership contests. how will she confront the cost of living prices at home and what will be her foreign policy priorities?
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this is inside so ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm fully back table. britton's new prime minister is taking over at a time of unprecedented challenges at home and abroad. list ross is under pressure to act on the countries cost of living crisis. families, fe, soaring grocery and energy bills, as inflation hits a 40 year high. she also needs to manage the you case post breaks it relationship with the european union and the war in ukraine. but our 1st task has been to form a cabinet trust, promoted m p. 's who supported her during the leadership context against re she's to knock for the 1st time the government's top 4 rolls are not held by white men. truss headphone calls with the u. s. and ukranian presidents before facing her 1st
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session in parliament as leader. she's promising immediate steps to deal with high energy class. we can't just deal with today's problem. we can just put a sticking plaster on it. what we need to do is increase our energy supplies long term, and that is why we will open up mole supply in the safe. which the honorable gentleman as opposed to that is why we won't bill for nuclear power stations, which the labor party didn't do when they went on. and that is why we will get on with delivering the supply as well as helping people with al jazeera xandra. simmons reports from london. this thrusters had to hit the ground running both at home and internationally. her 1st call with a foreign leader was with vladimir zalinski, the president of ukraine. she reassured him, of long term commitment. bother you. k. in supporting that war against russia and she attacked vladimir putin saying he was continuing to weapon eyes energy. next
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came joe biden to you as president. he assured her that the special relationship with the u. k. would continue, and he thanked her for her commitment to the ukraine war and to challenge russian aggression. he went on to say though, that the european union at negotiations over northern ireland to get the legislation in place, had to be chased by the new prime minister domestically. she's got a major problem with energy prices with you k families, millions of them really fun to get hard going. she's going to announce in the next few days, a new plan for capping the energy bills, right? the way across the country, limiting them too low, $3000.00 us dollars in any given year. now this is a colossal commitment over a $100000000000.00 committed to it, which could actually threatened the whole mantra about cutting taxes because somewhere that money has to be found. and it could be found in taxes for the future
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. and that could put her under threat. ah, well let's bring in our guests now in london, ron da. com reader in politics at king's college, london, and director of the university center for british government and politics. in cambridge, lydia craig, head of economics and at the new economic foundation and in brussels, petra's wrestler's secretary general of the european movement international, which is a civil society network promoting close a european integration, a well one, welcome to you all. thank you very much for being on inside story. before we get into the nitty gritty and the details of domestic and foreign policy challenges, i want to ask each one of you 1st, your general view of the new u. k. prime minister. your impressions, if you will, after for speech rod, let me start with you. what did you think? can she deliver? well, that remains to be seen. i think one of the major issues the trip has she's starting
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point on the seriously unfavorable circumstances. so while it looks like she's on the face bits of past positions a large elementary majority, she can do pretty much whatever she wants in terms of legislation. she is a illicitly very tricky position with an election looming and her party plummeting in the polls. so i was, yes, things are looking quite gloomy from harry stars, but it remains to be seen whether she can handle the ground running just all right . lydia, you're fast. can she hit the ground running? can she deliver was going to be very interesting to see what she actually does, because obviously up until now she's been trying to appeal to a very specific and quite small group of people named the conservative party members. and that will say she needs to appeal. so that the public at large, we're all ready starting to have pivots, like, for example, the big emergency energy package that we're expecting tomorrow is, is very,
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very different to the sorts of things that she's talking about a few weeks ago. so i think she is going to have to backtrack a lot of what she said, her own conservative leadership campaign. and it'll be interesting to see exactly what she, petro less in brussels. how does the rest of your view less trust? what do they make of her vision of the u. k? well, after the boat is jonathan, his bees mildly north, the comic premier ship. things cannot get worse as far as people he brushes are concerned. having said that, british politics have the tendency to surprise us to have done so over the past few years, especially seems where you decided to leave you. so people are hoping for the best, but they're expecting the worse. ok, rod. now let's get into the details of it, of course, a long and costly to do list for les stress, the most pressing issue, as we heard domestically is of course, to help people cope with
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a huge rise in energy prices. the cost of living crisis. but this energy crisis, of course, is not just affecting britain, but the whole of europe given what's happening in ukraine right now. do you think britain, under less stress is better place to deal with it than other european countries? with the energy crisis that remains to be seen. again, we won't know until tomorrow. some specifics. what is trust is going to come up with. i think what we can say some confidence is this is the immediate ass around that she's facing. so we saw are in primacy questions today when she faced kissed alma for the 1st time. the question over precisely who is ultimately going to pay for and be benefit from this trust measures is the call back around night or is giving way. i think less trust is immediately paying quite a big gamble that she will be able to cut through the electorate with her majors immediately. as is absolutely true, but i want to underline that she's a very difficult point in everything from talking to her own political party,
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to talking to the country at large company. and what's a difficult transition? what does the country at large make of her rod? not just, you know, conservative voters but, but all over the country as a whole. what do they think of her? well, not withstanding the fact that she isn't hugely well known among the country, large of a on harrison to other members. ready johnson, exceptional, and he's cut through the country. she, her number's not found, test it. i think you know, in comparison to case tom on questions over, who would make the best problem is that she is on the rounds and puts down most measures. so. not fantastic. i've got a lot of grounds make up. alright. lydia, coming back to the energy crisis. one of the plans, at least until, you know, she was elected seemed to be that there be some kind of freeze on energy bills. how, how will that be paid for? and what would that entail?
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yes, so there's been a lot of rumor about how, how it will be paid full. but some people i'm suggesting that it might be paid for by loans to energy companies, which would mean because energy companies would put up household bills and for possibly up to 20 years afterwards to be able to kind of recoup these costs. it could mean prolonging the paying on households for quite a long time. will they oversee producing that pain in the future with a lot of people particularly criticizing the facts that it doesn't seem like there are any plans to increase the when full tax on oil and gas produces to make sure that they pay for the contribution is they're able to so there's been a lot of criticism of baffling suggestion that maybe it will be paid for by a bar a future taxation that's, i mean, that certainly seems like potentially a more progressive alternative as long as you go progress track system. you know, at least it's, it is the, the burden is falling more on the wealthy by would say,
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if she's going to be partially boring, large amounts to fund some of the tax cuts that she's been talking about, right. the be helpful from cost living perspective. i'm not going to ask you about that. i mean, during the campaign, her opponent said that this would be political suicide, electro suicide. but yet here she is. is this package of tax tax cuts that she's offering, that she's announcing? lydia, is that, is that going to help people with low incomes? no, i mean they're all the ones that we've had in being mooses are ruled. i would say fairly on taxes and are often going to benefit wealthy people who don't need the help. more in the case, for example, corporation tax corporations, making a profit rather than those that are struggling. so know that the tax cuts in my opinion are very, very cool. use boring and this is going to have to be
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a big support package. so having waste, like you know, what was never a good thing, but it's a sticky, bad thing in times of crisis when a large rescue package is needed and may be needed for many years when people are talking about this crisis going on until maybe end of 2024, possibly long petros in brussels, less trust. and the, and u. k. general has worked well with the you on issues like support for ukraine, for example. the e right now as a whole is trying to find common ground and means of capitalizing these energy prices across the block. can they work with a u. k. on this, there is genuine desire for acute brushes in capitals across the continent to cooperate with a huge because as you pointed out, the challenges we are facing common and they require a joint reaction. and which is why also it's imperative that, that this trust and you prime minister at adoption motor,
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conciliatory and constructive on duty and share election campaign. even those who was trying to appeal to and not all section of the relation at people who are paying close attention to your liking most speak english and describing the president of france are supposed to be full and also communicating fairly good for a patient and message is when it comes to the you hasn't been helpful that has really made people have a low expectations and it will make cooperation harder. so it's imperative that the soon at least try to communicate messages that are based on the need to be neutral trust because people is also in the british government. certainly as he was perceived quite hostile towards the european rod. which version do you think which version of less trust do you think the european union is going to get her critic say that she's cavalry used opposition to the northern island protocol and
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and the south to gone a support within the conservative party. do you think she'll dive down the temperature now that she's been elected? most likely. i want to think, you know, lease trust is no longer campaigning. she's going to be confronted by the realities of government, but particularly the government in crisis. i think her options are going to be serious limited. she will have to develop some or consider a, b, c. exactly. when that happens mediately, i think the fiscal costs, all of us just try to. ready europe become a parents, i think that will be when you see the tipping points, but yeah, i think if nothing else lose trust is a flexible politician. i mean, you can say the certainty throughout her career as she has changed positions openly repeatedly. so i think, yeah, absolutely, a very different kind of figure. do you agree with that? lydia? i mean, she was very tough with the you during negotiations for,
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for rex it. she was a tough, negotiate a confrontational, even at times with brussels. are we going to see continuity when it comes to breakfast, or are we going to see a change as the wrong thinks? well i, i certainly hope that we will see a change because i think you know, that everybody loses from the currents of your situation with regards to brussels. the u. k definitely continues to suffer. say for example, if you look at something like business investments, it's been down since the brakes that referendum. it's still down on a lot of that is to do with the uncertainty. and so much of you know, the brakes and negotiations still to be worked out. so, you know, we're already paying the price plus, you know, like others have emphasized, you know, well the u. k. may literally be an island where we're certainly not economically an island. i think we're gonna see this actually over the winter is going to be really how much homes the you k because obviously the e u has, has big problems potentially coming this, this windsor with them,
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with energy shorts at schusters, possibly blackouts, et cetera. and that's gonna have lots of ripple effects for the u. k. economy through supply chains, because our economies are also in length. so, so i think it's going to be, yeah, i very much hope to see this trust working in a much more constructive way with the european union, petra's on, on the northern island protocol, which has been really at the heart of that, that the dispute with the european union, ah, where, where do you see things going and what sort of flexibility is there from brussels on this issue? are they likely to give a, give up a little bit just to be on the same page as a less stress in the british government? bossa, the e leadership, you institutions, but also see prime ministers in your state in most number space have said that there is, of course, desire to work out any difficulties that my emanate from the protocol or there is no appetite, renegotiate, reopen, disagreement. people here are cautious,
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how difficult negotiations, where and how difficult pieces that we needed to call to address. and they don't ways to go back to the start and negotiate. again. there is appetite to find solutions to difficulties about that, but i need to be reciprocated. we need to demonstrate the desire, the 1st and foremost respect. they agreements that the her signed up to and then constructively, not with brickman see in mind and gauge into finding solutions. and unfortunately, we have seen the successive prime minister said from comment on all the way to really stressed to, failing to adopt a confrontational stance. not appreciating reality, as he was said, but actually being victim to i don't in my days when it comes to dealing with you and that doesn't play very well over here. as you alluded to earlier during the
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campaign, when she was asked about future relations with french fries and demand new to my call, she said that the jury was still out. do you think that was a diplomatic mistake? do you think she'll change her attitude when dealing with other leaders? suddenly it was, it was in diplomatic language. let's just say that and you raise a lot of eyebrows because even if you're in an election campaign, even if you're trying to appeal to the galleries and get a cheap laugh and you are, you know, you are rehearsing to be a statement, a prime minister, and be slow to kind of language settling kind of stone. and he wants to adopt that aspires to lead the nation like the game. so he has left our tasting the mouse among people over here. but never the less, you know, they're grownups to have the hearts keen and i, mr. micro abrasion micro demonstrated shortly after those statements. he didn't take it personally, they general desire to engage and work together with britain and hoping that there
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will be actually the people who will grow up and engage as adults. all right, right. i want to come to you and talk about another domestic issue, and that is well domestic keeping the union together. northern ireland and scotland threatening to break away. will she be able to do this to keep the union to get well, that's one of the questions. i mean, certainly it's going to be high on the agenda. i think the scott is national park. see opening list trust premiership. we can expect to see pressure coming from them . i think be one of the reasons why the less likely in the immediate future is that none of the major parties say is a li, viable policy tool. berry. i'm just at least in, in england. and so, yeah, not mediately, i didn't, can see. it doesn't rise on the agenda. i think it's going to be very but other things. and let's look at least trusted in boxes, is probably the worst in boxes. any incoming prime minister in living memory,
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you know, living crisis, we got a collapsing and you've got the ongoing war and you crave so many other things. i think you're going to squeeze out. so i think it will be an issue, but not until probably off to the next general election. that's going to be not in the media. what about her ability to reunite the conservative party? well, this would be the question i heard cabinets. ah, okay, we're going to interrupt, so i have regular programming to bring you some breaking news. coming out of the united kingdom persons queen elizabeth. the 2nd is currently we here on the medical supervision at her residence in bar moral in scotland, which is getting that news is coming in on the wires for us doctors the saying they are concerned about her health. now we've heard in the past few minutes from the
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speaker of parliament lindsay hoyle, this is what he had to say. let's have a listen to exactly what he said. i wish say something about the noise from which is just be made about too much esther. i know i speak on behalf of the entire hers . when i say that we send over us best wishes to imagine to the queen that she and the ro, fumbling are enough wholesome prose of this mould. i'm going to take no more just to get through something else from logical them. thank you. thank you mister speaker. i'm shooting behalf of all colleagues that were sudden to hear of the announcement has been made. ok, so clearly this information just coming out now it's all new information coming out of the united kingdom. what we know is that the queen is under medical supervision at balmoral off the doctors became concerned for her health. this is according to a statement from buckingham palace and i'm just going to go over some of that statement. this is what it says following further evaluation this morning,
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the queen's doctors all concerned for her majesty's health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision. this is a statement coming in from buckingham palace. the queen remains comfortable and she is at balmoral. now we've also had a starting to get reaction coming in from various parts of the country including list trust, the new prime minister of the u. k. this is what she had to say in the last 20 minutes or so, or that's the whole country. this is prime minister list straw saying that the whole country is deeply concerned by the news. she says, my thoughts and the thoughts of people across our united kingdom, a with her majesty the queen and her family at this time. now in case you're just joining us, just to clarify that the news coming in to us is that the queen is currently under
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medical supervision at balmoral, her residence in scotland. this happened off to doctor's became concerned for her health that is according to the statement that has been officially released by buckingham palace. now the queen are 96 years old and now we know that her she pulled, she pulled out of a virtual privy council on wednesday with doctors advising her to rest. we are now hearing that prince charles and camilla are traveling that we're currently traveling to balmoral to be with the queen. we don't know, at what point they were informed that they were staying nearby, apparently at buck hole on the estate. so perhaps they are already with the queen. and so just to repeat that prince charles and camilla traveling to bell moral will
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to getting news that prince william is also on his way to balmoral. this is the queen's residence in scotland and mrs. he's decided to travel there after this news, this announcement on the queen's health, that is what we are hearing. we can go to our correspondence. we'll re challenge who is in london, rory what, what elsie, you hearing about this. this is coming to us all by surprise. yeah, the breaking news, i mean, i think the things that you have just been outlining that we've got messages from the prime minister. we have messages of concern for the queens health coming from her doctors. we know that the immediate family have been informed and are now coming to be with her. these are all the kinds of things that you would expect to
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happen if the queen did not have very long to live all these things being put in place to make sure that if she does die in the coming days that her family of the country is prepared for it that the government is prepared for it as well. i mean, you have to remember that just it was a couple of days ago that lives trusts went up to bow morrow to be basically appointed as the prime minister. that is something that usually happens down in london that usually happens at buckingham palace. the new prime minister will go to the queen at buckingham palace and be appointed there. but the queen was not well enough to travel down south from where she had been in scotland. and so liz truck had to make her way out there for that ceremony. so that gives us a sense, really, that this queen 96 years old. as we know is in
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a frail condition at the moment has been for some time she has had difficulty walking difficulty with mobility. her husband's di lafayette, prince philip. and he, for the last year, at least, the queen has read the scale back on the number of appointments and ceremonies and official gcs that she has be performing really keeping quite a low profile. we did the photograph of her with this trust a couple of days ago. and he said there was a a privy council meeting that she was supposed to be take the yesterday on wednesday that was cancelled. so growing concerns, i think for the queens health. hm. and as i just said, the kinds of things that are being put in place now, the kinds of things that are happening all, all through the sorts of things you would expect to happen if the queen was perhaps in her final days that you were referring to that meeting between las trusts and the queen, which took place
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a few days ago. now we actually looking at that picture. she does look a frail but she is standing up. and as you say was a break in tradition that said that she met with less trust and the outgoing prime minister boris johnson in bow moral in scotland rather in london. which is what traditionally she, she would have dano has done in the past. and we were told at the time that was because she suffered from mobility issues. and she also had a meeting, i believe, an online meeting on wednesday or with the privy council, which then she counseled, and after being advised to rest by doctors, i mean, talk us through some of the sort of the latest health issues that as she is 96 years old, but she has, she has increasingly sort of been stepping out of public life. hasn't she? yes, you have the so you did the queen's health has, has, has clearly been on
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a down but trajectory. but for some time, as you would expect for someone of her significant age, she is an old woman. she is the longest serving british monarch by a reasonable margin now. and she has been on the throne performing her duties for since 1950. 21953. she is the better of women who has been doing what she's done for a very long time. and a woman in her ninety's, he would expect not to be in the peak of health. and so over the last few years, we have heard many stories of her being in an out of hospital for conditions this and that. and most of those she has come out of and has been bounced back into performing some gc is not all of the ones that she was performing when she was a healthy woman, a younger woman, but certainly kept.

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