Government . Tough immigration, tough Migration Policies are divisive as a whole amongst you. But crucial amongst many crucial swing voters which is crucial many of you on the doorsteps and focus groups, problem, big issue, big stakes for the prime minister, i will ask you again, what do we do about the boats . Please get in touch . Now it is time for the news for karishma patel. Thank you. Junior doctors in england have started a four day strike in their long running dispute over pay. Nhs leaders say the action will cause significant disruption to patients. Figures published this morning will show the number of migrants detained in the uk after crossing the channel in small boats has passed 100,000. The number has only been counted officially since january 2018. The uk economy has grown despite expected stagnation. Official figures show it grew by 0. 2 between april and june. The chancellor, jeremy hunt, said the governments plan was starting to take effect, but labour said growth was
i m lewis vaughan jones. i m lewis vaughanjones. welcome to the daily global, where we bring you the daily global, where we bring you the top stories from around the world. we start in south london where an eight year old girl has died and 15 people have been injured after a car crashed into a primary school. it s a girl school for children between 4 11. it happened just before 10am during what was thought to be a children s garden party for the last day of term. ten people were taken to hospital. a woman in her 40s has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. our special correspondent lucy manning reports. tables, chairs and mats laid out. a sense of excitement about the last day of term. the young girls celebrating the end of school for the summer. now a terrible, heartbreaking scene. this outdoor party crushed beneath the car. just before ten this morning, the land rover smashed into one of the buildings at the study prep school. the damage done to
also on the programme. pretty sure we know which sidejoe biden is on. he is in south carolina this hour, pitching more money into solar and renewables. how does science respond? we will talk about the role of ai in all that. and whether uk scientists will have a seat at the biggest table. speculation today that britain might be ready to rejoing europe s multi billion dollar horizon project. brian taylor, former political editor of bbc scotland. he is pro indepence. maura gillespie, former deputy chief of staff and communications director for congressman adam kinzinger and former adviser to speaker of the house of representatives, john boehner. lets that with this debate over oil and gas production. the boss of energy giant shell says we need to continue to keep on dreaming. in an interview one speaker suggested we still need to discuss because we are not moving fast enough towards renewable energy. the reality is that the energy system of today continues to desperately need o
leader was in exile indefinitely, think again. what does that mean for the war in ukraine? difficult day for number ten. the standards committee says former government whip, chris pincher, should be suspended for eight weeks for groping two men in a london club. it will likely trigger another by election. alongside that, the cabinet office lost a legal challenge today to prevent the covid inquiry from seeing borisjohnson s unredacted whatsapp messages and diaries. we will get into a busy day in westminster. but let us begin with that news from belarus that the boss of the wagner paramilitary group, yevgeny prigozhin, has returned to russia according to the belarusian leader alexander lu kashenko. mr prigozhin, who led wagner s mutiny in russia last month, was supposed to have gone into exile in belarus and yet the belarusian leader says he may now be back in st petersburg. for the past week or so, his whereabouts has been something of a mystery. we know his private jet ha