international aid

Programs on the chopping block include the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as well as international aid and money for Planned Parenthood.

International aid charities were dismayed at what they said was a cut worth almost £2bn in the UK’s aid priorities overseas.

Shadow foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell called the cut to the international aid budget "shameful, immoral and wrong"

But on Monday the US state department said Israel must do "much more" to allow international aid to enter Gaza.

International aid agencies warned that famine was looming.