of speculation about how it will deal with an estimated $5 billion of debt due to pandemic losses. pressure intensifies on the exam board, pearson, to explain why hundreds of students have still not received their btec results, four days after they were due to be released. the duke and duchess of cambridge say they will permenantly move to adelaide cottage in windsor and send their children to school in nearby ascot from september. good afternoon. criminal barristers in england and wales have voted for an all out strike next month joining a wave of industrial action as workers seek pay rises to keep up with high inflation. some barristers say they earn less than the minumum wage the government claims strike action will simply delay justice for victims of crime. railway workers, dockers, postal workers and refuse collectors are among those who ve already gone on strike in what s been called a summer of discontent while nurses are to be balloted on industrial action. our
The headlines on bbc news. the summer wave of industrial action continues as criminal barristers vote to go on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike in england and wales from next month. a bbc investigation unmasks the man responsible for a huge online community which traded non consensual sexual images and videos of more than a hundred woman the world s second largest cinema chain and employer of 28,000 people cineworld, has announced it s considering filing for bankruptcy in the us, pakistan s former prime minister, imran khan has been charged under the country s anti terror laws. he hasn t yet been arrested and hundreds of his supporters have gathered outside his home in islamabad. they have promised to take over the capital, if police try to detain him. earlier today, a court granted him three days of bail which protects him from immediate detention. the row centres over comments made by mr khan at a rally on saturday when he condemned islamabad s chief
Not sure if you irresponsible, do you agree? i am not sure if you are irresponsible, do you agree? i n not sure if you are asking me to agree, it s not up to me to sort it out. i can only rely on the immediately past lord chiefjustice, lord thomas, who was on the radio only last week saying that he felt barristers had been sadly left behind in their pay. i can tell you, 20 odd years at the bar when i was there, there was only one really short, very quickly resolved strike. barristers don t go on strike, they are committed to the causes of justice. they go in it because they are excited by the idea to help justice to be done properly. the truth is, they are not that far apart but the government doesn t seem as though it wants to talk to them. there was a review and it was mentioned earlier in your programme by a man called bellamy, who recommended 15% as an absolute start
This is bbc news the headlines: the summer wave of industrial action in the uk continues with criminal barristers to go on an indefinite, uninterrupted strike in england and wales from next month. barristers have been saying this for years, that if you do not invest, people walk away. courts have been closed down, simply weren t enough judges sitting. so the backlog has built up and built up and we are now unfortunately at a critical point. a bbc investigation unmasks the man responsible for a huge online community which traded non consensual sexual images and videos of more than a hundred woman. cinema chain cineworld confirms it is considering filing for bankruptcy in the us after days
Railway workers, dockers, postal workers and refuse collectors are among those who ve already gone on strike in what s been called a summer of discontent while nurses are to be balloted on industrial action. our legal affairs correspondent dominic casciani reports. its a dispute that has been a decade in the making. criminal barristers saying they can t make a living any more and the government saying it has made a fair and generous offer. this morning the criminal bar association announced 80% of members have voted for a complete walk out, an unprecedented escalation of a summer of legal discontent with ministers. discontent over funding for the legal aid system that pays for most criminal cases. the row has had a huge impact already on the justice system. now it going to get worse. there have been 19 days of strike action so far, that s affected more than 6200 separate cases and delayed m00 trials. now from the 5th of september