living where i will be. in sport, a missed opportunity for manchester united, as they throw away a two goal lead to put their europa league hopes injeopardy. and we find out about how donating something usually discarded after childbirth the umbilical cord can save lives. and here at aintree, it is ladies day in the grand national festival. looking promising behind me at the moment, but rain and the focus for many of you today. all the detail on that and your weekend forecast all coming up here on breakfast. good morning. it s friday 14th april. our main story the royal college of nursing will announce whether its members in england have voted to accept the government s new pay offer later today. the union, which represents nurses and other health workers, has recommended that its members accept the deal, which includes a 5% pay rise for this year. it comes as junior doctors in england start the final full day of a 96 hour walkout over a separate pay dispute. our cor
Victim to an Armed Robbery and suffered a health scare but finally the end is in sight. Russell should cross the finish line in tunisia this afternoon, and our reporter ellie price has been looking back at his journey. Lets go day three day four day six his nickname on social media is hardest geezer. Day 349 of running the entire length of africa. After more than 350 days, 10,000 miles and 19 million steps, hes probably earned it. Hes run through deserts, rainforests, savannahs, mountains, jungle and 16 countries, and hes raised well over £500,000 for the Running Charity and sandblast, posting updates on his progress on social media. 0riginally, hed planned a mere 9,000 mile trip, but complications with visas, health scares, geopolitical issues and even an Armed Robbery meant the 26 year old was forced to extend the challenge. But hes taken it all in his stride. I was absolutely bricking it, to be totally honest. Everything goes through your head in those moments. And i was. I was pre
The legal advice, that the government had been given on whether israel was acting within international law, and of course that will have an impact on uk arms sales to israel, which have become a very, very live political issue here in the uk. So the deputy Prime Minister, as you say, 0liver Dowden, interviewed on sunday with Laura Kuenssberg here on the bbcjust a short while ago. Here is what he had to say. Have specific concerns about different areas of israels conduct. We are raising those concerns with israel. By the way, it is so important to remember this, we have gone from the horrors of six months ago to Holding Israel to extraordinary high standards. It is right that we do so and it is right that we raise these concerns where we say, look, what will you are doing in respect of not getting aid in, or what you are doing in respect of your targeting raises concerns for us, and we need you to engage with. Now, some mps in the House Of Commons in westminster calling for arms sales t
Today the home secretary asked the Migration Advisory Committee to start work on what comes next. We want a newcomer in forms, evidence based eu migration policy. Weve commissioned the mac to look into it, an independent group. The Home Secretary Set out a vague timetable, sort of, that there will be three phases. The first will end on the specified date, the day we leave the eu, probably march, 2019. Eu citizens who are already here, who have five years residency, will be able to apply for a settled status and those with fewer than five years residency will be allowed to stay to clock up those five years. Even the apparently simple thing about what to do with eu citizens here already, and to take the big one, the European Union wants its own court to have some jurisdiction over these people to insure that their rights are respected, something the government doesnt like at all. The second phase is a slightly woolly transition phase, where it seems that eu residents will be able to come