over the black sea. britain becomes the latest country to ban the chinese owned video sharing app tiktok from government mobile phones. the uk government has reached an agreement with health unions over a new pay dealfor nhs staff in england. the deal aims to bring to an end a winter of industrial action which has seen nurses, ambulance staff and physiotherapists all go on strike. the offer includes a rise of 5% for the next financial year starting in april and covers all nhs staff except doctors, who are on a different contract. for this year staff have been also offered a one off payment. members will now be consulted over the coming weeks and strike action paused. the uk health secretary steve barclay has been speaking in the last few minutes, here s what he had to say. the government has made a formal offer, just come at a meeting, i m pleased they ve agreed to recommend to their members, it will be for a 5% pay rise next year, 2023 24, but also an additional lump sum
through his controversial pension reforms. we start with increasing warnings from western governments over the use of the chinese social media platform, tiktok. today the british government banned it on all government and civil servants devices. take a listen. we re also going to ban the use of macro when devices. we will do so with immediate effect. mr speaker, this is a precautionary move. we know that there is already use of tiktok across government, but it is also good cyber hygiene. on the face of it the app might not look like a threat to national security. it s exploded in popularity as a platform to share short videos of viral dances and comical voice overs. and has become a part of today s youth culture. tiktok claims to have more than one billion monthly users worldwide. and last year it was the most downloaded app in the world. the app is owned by the chinese company byte dance. and that s what s worrying governments. because the app can collect data stored on t
tonight with the context, anand menon, director of the thinktank, the uk in a changing europe and the former spokesperson for the republican national committee doug heye welcome to the programme. around a million health workers in england have been offered a new pay deal today, which could bring to an end months of damaging strikes in the nhs. the unions at the negotation, represent a wide variety of health staff from nurses, paramedics, and midwives, to emergency call handlers and cleaners. the deal now on the table comes in two parts. first a one off payment for the 22/23 financial year that the government will pay within weeks which rises from 1,600 pounds 1,900 dollars for the lowest paid, to around £3,700 for senior managers. and on top of that there s a 5% pay rise for next year. most of the unions involved in the talks says they will recommend their members accept the offer. here s the prime minister. we ve got a great plan in place to make improvements and yo
it certainly isn t all that we would have asked for. but it is an offer that we can put to our members. health workers say the effects of the strike action could have been avoided had the prime minister and his team responded earlier. this agreement rightly recognises the fantastic work that our nhs workers like nurses, midwives and paramedics do, whilst also being affordable for the taxpayer. we will have more details on the deal which covers all staff in nhs england apart from doctors who are on a different contract. also tonight. in eastern ukraine, a special report on the fighters in the trenches of bakhmut, trying to resist the russian advance. the russians are only 500 metres away. that is automatic fire you can hear. along this line is grenade fire, automatic fire and tank fire. the social media app tiktok owned by a chinese company is to be banned from uk government devices for security reasons. scientists identify a gene variant known to increase the risk of brea