relations lawyer. also this afternoon. there were more excess deaths than usual in the uk last year. the highest number outside the covid pandemic in half a century. some shops open at midnight to meet demand for prince harry s heavily trailed autobiography, which is now on sale. and a setback, not a roadblock. the team behind a uk space mission which failed to launch say they will keep on trying. and this picture has been causing something of a stir on social media today, because someone or something is missing. we will be revealing all. good afternoon. in the last few minutes, the government has been introducing draft legislation to limit future industrial action in the public sector. the bill would cover health, fire and railway workers. ministers say it would introduce a minimum level of service. unions have reacted angrily to the proposals, which they say potentially are undemocratic and unworkable, and would limit the right to strike. the business secretary grant shapps
strike, but two. they ve identified a huge crater off the coast of africa of a similar age to the one in the gulf of mexico associated with their extinction 66 million years ago. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are sian griffiths, who s the education editor at the sunday times, and the broadcaster and journalist james lewer. 0 nto onto tomorrow s front pages. let s start with the i that says liz truss is to be told by the office for budget responsibility that she has billions of pounds less than she thought to fund her promised tax cuts. the ft has another story about the frontrunner to be the next prime minister, saying she has city of london s top regulators in her sights with an immediate review if she wins. now to exam results day, as the daily telegraph features a picture ofjoyful students celebrating with the headline that 20% of our top university places have gone to foreign students. the daily mirror asks w
Countries, calling for an immediate humanitarian truce. Welcome to the programme. Lets take you live straight away to gaza. We have these pictures of the gaza sky. It is dark they are because of the time, but also because Electricity Power on the buildings is not on. What we have been seeing in these pictures over the last couple of hours is flashes of orange as israel intensifies its air strikes. It announced a ramping up of strikes from the airand announced a ramping up of strikes from the air and its operations on the ground. Many around the world are asking is this the ground incursion, the major operation . At this point, wejust dont incursion, the major operation . At this point, we just dont know. Incursion, the major operation . At this point, wejust dont know. What we do know is that Communication Lines are cut in gaza right now. Lets take you to some other life feeds that we have. This is southern israel. Hamas is launching rockets from gaza into israel, too. And we can take
year, 2023, in terms of whether this level of excess deaths is going to continue? excess deaths are a comparison to what is normal for the time of year. it is normal for death what is normal for the time of year. it is normalfor death rates what is normal for the time of year. it is normal for death rates to be higher injanuary and february time. that might actually mean that although death numbers stay high, the excess falls a little bit as we move into the first quarter. some of these contributing factors will still be with us. especially i would say there was health care problems that the nhs are experiencing. that is wor int that the nhs are experiencing. that is worrying because covid flew is one thing, but problems with the health care and the national health service, with the ambulance service and getting people to hospital when the need treatment, and getting them into hospital rather than part in an ambulance outside, those all appear