any strike by teachers, a huge knock on effect. most state school teachers in england had a 5% rise in 2022, and a 3% rise was recommended from this year. but the unions want above inflation increases, and to ensure pay rises don t come out of schools budgets. they argue they are playing catch up on pay over the last more than a decade. the government says it s a fair and reasonable offer and that schools would receive an extra £2.3 billion over the next two years. are you a pupil or parent off school and work today? how are the strikes affecting you? do you agree with what the teachers are doing? teachers please get in touch, too tell me why this matters. this morning are teachers right to strike? a pay deal for hundreds of thousands of nhs staff in england is expected to be settled later. ministers will meet health bosses and representatives from m unions this lunchtime. but some workers including nurses are still opposed to the offer, which includes a 5% rise
let s start here in the uk, where prime minister liz truss is no longer promising to increase state pensions in line with surging inflation, and has asked ministers to look for more spending cuts. two weeks ago, the prime minister said she was committed to what s known as the triple lock. that means payments rise by whatever is higher between prices, average earnings or 2.5%. however her spokesman said truss was now not making any commitments on government spending. inflation figures are out in a few hours time and expected to show its at 10 percent, whilst the figure for average earnings is just below 5.5%. joining me now is dan kemp global chief investment officer at morningstar investment management. this investment management. will be a real concern foi many this will be a real concern for many pensioners, this trust when asked about the triple lot can my colleague asked her she said she was committed to that? you are correct, it will be of great concern to pension
have continued, as have those on the jabaliya refugee camp in the north. israel insists it s making maximum effort to avoid killing civilians. hospitals inside gaza are struggling to take in the casualties with un officials describing a degree of panic in medicalfacilities that hasn t been seen before. the un says palestinians who are being told to leave areas, which were previously seen as safe, are being pushed into a narrow corner of gaza. our international editor jeremy bowen reports on the situation in the west bank and gaza. there s distressing footage from the very beginning. lost boys, brothers looking for their father my dad s been killed. i swear my dad s been killed. they re lost in the mighty vengeance promised by israel. then they found their father and brother were dead. the strike, filmed by a freelance journalist, destroyed the home of this family injabalia, northern gaza. these are the latest israeli army pictures. they re pushing forward into souther
an adviser to prime minister benjamin netanyahu told the bbc that israel was making the maximum effort to avoid killing civilians. israel has been dropping leaflets with maps, showing gazans the areas it plans to strike. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams explains why that often isn t protecting civilians. this has been a problem throughout the past two months. israel believes and says it is giving as much notice as it possibly can to the civilian population to leave certain areas where the fighting is most concentrated. they believe these new maps, with this detailed grid, numbered grid, should help that process because they are saying to people in certain numbered areas, these are the areas you have to leave. the trouble is people don t know where they should leave to. israel is also hitting targets outside of those demarcated areas. anything that the israelis regard as a high value target where hamas might have some of its infrastructure or where acre hamas commande