Morning briefing Wednesday 11th June

0:01This is the Times Morning Briefing on Wednesday 11 June. Rachel Reeves will promise to invest in Britain's renewal when she reveals her spending plans later. The Chancellor's spending review is expected to include£113bn of investment thanks to looser borrowing rules. The Times' chief political correspondent, Aubrey Allegretti, has outlined which departments are expected to be the big winners. The NHS is going to see a£30bn rise in its day-to-day spending budget. That makes up, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, about 60 % of the cash increase in the Chancellor's overall day-to-day spending envelope.

0:38Also, the Ministry of Defence, they are going to get the sort of budget in order to increase defence spending. Schools will also be getting an extra£4.5 billion a year. That's going to pay for reforms, including to special educational needs. There's expected to be tough spending limits for other departments. The mayor of Los Angeles has declared a local emergency and brought in a curfew for downtown LA to stop vandalism and looting. Karen Bass says there's been significant damage across the city and warned the restrictions could last several nights. There's been unrest since Friday. When it emerged, undocumented migrants were being rounded up and arrested.

1:17Here's LA Police Chief Jim McDonnell. I want to be absolutely clear that if you're within that designated curfew zone between the hours of 8pm and 6am and are not exempt under the order, you're going to be subject to arrest. The curfew is necessary, a necessary measure to protect lives and safeguard property. The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is calling on the UK to reverse its decision to impose sanctions on two Israeli ministers, saying it doesn't help efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza. The government has accused Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gavir and Bezalel Smotrich, who's the finance minister of inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

1:58Israel has called the move outrageous. Sir Mark Lyle Grant is the UK's former ambassador to the UN. He's told Times Radio, while it's a significant political step, it won't make that much difference on the ground. Netanyahu's government is very set on their two policies. One is to continue the military operation against Hamas in Gaza and secondly to encourage and facilitate further illegal settlement in the West Bank. So I don't think it will make any difference on the ground. Riot police in Ballymena in County Antrim have had petrol bombs and masonry thrown at them during a second night of disorder.

2:35Senior officers described similar scenes on Monday as racist thuggery when a peaceful protest in support of a girl who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault turned violence. It's claimed children are spending hours online as there aren't enough places for them to go outside and play. A report by the Raising the Nation Play Commission is calling on the government to invest in playgrounds. Ministers insist they're setting children up to thrive. Don't forget you can follow the Times News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online.