live from london. this is bbc news. the third at heathrow would unlock further growth, investment, increase boost investment, inereese and boost investment, insreese and make the uk more exports and make the uk more open and connected. kumbh mela religious festival in northern india. were trampled on.

hello, welcome to bbc news now. government will support building a new, third runway at heathrow airport. she insists that the expansion has been blocked for too long and would be at the heart of government plans strict rules on noise, air quality and climate commitments. the announcements come against a backdrop of rising poltical of the economy. critics say rachel reeves's budget battered business confidence big tax rises on employers and gloomy talk

about public finances. to new development. and accepted decline. new railway links to cambridge and an ambition to turn the area between a two universities into europe's silicon valley. more controversially, an idea that has been runway at heathrow airport. as our only hub airport, heathrow is in a unique position and we cannot

duck their decision any longer. exports and make the uk more open and more connected. she will be battling some of her own mps. a swathe of them here in london don't want to see heathrow expanded and they are sceptical about her reassurances it can be done without sacrificing climate commitments. and disability benefits. will not have made the labour

sceptics feel any more comfortable. when... economic growth in the g7. what is the government doing for growth now? it is destroying it. they - the they the economy, they - the economy, completely _ they the economy, completely destroyed complete. es. de the they the economy, completely destroyed compte.e.a es. er the health they the economy, completely destroyed compte.e.a es. er the health service. have ruined - have ruined prisons. 2 have ruined prisons and they have ruined prisensenet _ k— they have ruined prisens end else. they've every front and they m i position “h§5§*%£*“h*?hfil 5 325? if? "i i position to position to give us lectures no position to give us lectures on anything. she said she accept _ on anything. she said she accept failed and accept they failed and their

changing, they have learned {hanging}. thev heave—teamed —— w . ———— — — nothin-. iain watson, bbc news. analysis from heathrow. they have talked a lot about sustainable aviation but at the moment 2% of fuel moment just 2% of aviation fuel is a sustainable and the target —£ -£ to 10% by tv to 10% by 2030. tv to 10% by 2030. 22x, lstnshave 10% by 2030. 22919 by so the lstn.have 10% by 2030. 22919 by so the question is, even 2040. so the question is, even if that is and s .. 7.22.2...” there will be a lot of competition between different to use that feel countries to use that feel between road transport and aviation, lots of people to use low carbon wanting to use low carbon fuels, even if they get hold fuels, so even if they get hold of field is of the field there is a question about what to other of emissions. the other 78% of the emissions. the tory government at the tory government looked at all of in a policy called all of this in a policy called zero shortly before labour jet zero shortly before labour took over and it found this

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something called the ultra fan, that will cut emissions, they say, by about 10%. huge difference to flying. emissions from planes. and the question is how can we do anything about those? with found really difficult. bring us up to date with continued reaction to the because the sonnets —— lots of people certainly lots of people have been putting the views forward. been potting one mews ffirwsre started been potting t'ne mews ferwsre started coming been blotting t'ne mews ferwsre started coming thick reaction started coming thick fast almost as soon

reeves shad reeves had stopped rachel'reeves'had'stopped they have been speaking. they have been strung strong support from federal strong sdpport fromt'ne federal —— federation of small strong sdpport fromt'ne federal —— f is eration of small strong sdpport fromt'ne federal —— f is er say| of small strong sdpport fromt'ne federal —— f is er say this imall strong sdpport fromt'ne federal —— f is er say this is all business is to say this is exactly what economy 572: sa y say it's what it's been others say it's what it's been crying out for for a while. there's also some support from trade unions who believe it will bring lots morejobs. an interesting thought fro from interesting thodghtfro from unison union says the the unison union which says the government should have been o:— if: of tying 77 of tying investing in 7 of aviation esting in 77 of aviation fuelg in 77 of aviation fuel to 1 sustainable aviation fuel to the grangemouth refinery the grangemouth oil refinery converting into a facility. politically, you heard the how the conservatives to this. you h??? reseeneee t? title; effigiiiifii 77 w 7 wv braddock heard kenny braddock a minute ago and was-... that ago and she was saying that many of the announcements in many of theannodncements in were conservative this speech were conservative policies and she has also accused the government of destroying growth in the and that linked short—term and that is linked says to the budget measures she says to the budget measures that were brought in last year

also changes to j also changes to workers' and also changes to workers' rights were planned in and also changes to workers' rigi upcoming ere planned in and also changes to workers' rigi upcoming employment n and also changes to workers' rigi upcoming employment rights the upcoming employment rights bill which does things like peoélielr .f—. ii; wipeople’ the? ' x ”wpeople’ the right 7 x ”wpeople’ the right to giving people the right to sickness leave from day one of so that is how the have 5 have reacted to conservatives have reacted to a reaction z might expect, the green ai'e deeply 7 ai'e deeply unimpressed party are deeply/unimpressed idea of expanding with, the idea of expanding, airport. heathrow airport. their co—leader adrian ramsay said it fa ntasy fantasy thinking to believe was fantasy thinking to believe you expand in line you can expand heathrow in line with commitments. the with climate commitments. the liberal democrats took a different approach and say a better way to boost the economy would be to look to europe to a new £02d be to look to europe to a new union with form a new customs union with europe which the government has so far ruled out. but i think piece the most significant piece of reaction we have seen perhaps the last hour or so is that e the mayor of response from the mayor of london sadiq khan. he is a lonoon sadls'flxafl— heisea—r— — — figure in labourand prominent figure in labour and very much suggesting he remains $752: z: -:= j to this any j t of ii; any j t of heathrowi that expansion of heathrow and that any plans it is expected

gny dlans it is expected he challenge those. gg lans it is ex ected h challenge those. challenuethose. . ~ ggy lans it is exected h~ at least 30 people have been killed and 90 injured in a crush at the kumbh mela festival in northern india. witnesses described chaotic scenes as people tried reporters have been talking to some distressing. when suddenly people started climbing over each other, coming from both sides.

and shoving the entire crowd fell upon me, trampling me as they moved forward. when the crowd surged, elderly people and women midnight when the police came and beat us with sticks telling i us to go and bathe immediately. and trampling us, and in that chaos my sister—in—law- lost her life. whistle blows. faith is what drove all these people here.

wanting to bathe in the holy waters, i see shoes. i see blankets. what witnesses have told us is that there were just on the river banks. and there was such a crush of people that they came over this way. there was nothing the people in front could have done.

translation: no one followed any rules. - someone in the crush. "after that, i couldn't find my husband." around the world across the uk, this is news.

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a critical lifeline. but new israeli laws threaten its work. it would be a catastrophe. will deepen and further the suffering of the palestinian people. unrwa has given shelter to the naseer family for the past 15 months. their children won't restart their education. "if you compare now with before the war," ahmed says, called school." historic homes. a un investigation found that nine unrwa rural workers may

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