hello and welcome to bbc news. we begin here in england where thousands ofjunior doctors in england have started a four day strike that threatens to bring the worst disruption in the history of the health service. it runs all the way through to saturday morning and could mean the cancellation of 350,000 appointments and operations. the doctors union is in a row with the government over pay forjunior doctors, with the british medical association sticking to its demand of a 35% pay rise and the government refusing to negotiate until what it sees as a more reasonable pay demand is met. catherine burns reports. what do we want? pay rise! how do we get it? strike! this winter, we ve got used to seeing nhs staff waving banners on picket lines. we re now into the fifth month of industrial action, but this walk out byjunior doctors in england is bigger in scale than anything that s come before. the bma is being accused of picking dates to maximise disruption. their view is indu
welcome to belfast and the lyric theatre where tonight, the play agreement will mark a moment 25 years ago that changed every aspect of life here in northern ireland forever the signing of the good friday or belfast agreement. it brought peace to northern ireland, but it has been an imperfect peace. the agreement guaranteed power sharing in government between nationalist and unionist communities. but for more than a third of its lifetime, there hasn t been a sitting government at stormont. these halls at the lyric have captured huge moments of symbolism both big and small. ten years ago, martin mcguinness, northern ireland s former deputy first minister, a former ira commander, shook hands with queen elizabeth here, a moment that would have once been unimaginable. and it is moments like that that people will be looking out for this evening when president biden arrives. here in northern ireland, words matter, and people will be looking to president biden s speech to see ho
in the north eastern kharkiv region and it s feared it will take decades to clear them completely. 0ur ukraine correspondent james waterhouse brought us this report. it reflects the size of the battlefield. the reality is, in areas where the russians initially advanced, where they occupied territory for a number of months on them. in the ukrainian counteroffensive, these areas where theissue counteroffensive, these areas where the issue of landmines is the most acute. these are also areas where people are looking to continue their lives and live an incredibly challenging conditions. we ve been to a town in the east. we ve been to a town in the east. this is what you call a scratching of the surface, a sweep and a gentle prod for hidden killers. a job with very obvious occupational hazards. translation: my family calls me in the morning l and tells me to be careful, to watch where i trad. of course, they are worried, very much worried. before we would work with shells from w
Allie, i just want you to know i effectively advocated for the team here at the table today with one of the big bosses. We will tell you more later. The table might get bigger. Im liking that idea, because mobile will just see his face. I get more my news from kyle griffin and i think any other single source. His tweets go up for the news alerts go up. Not only did that tweet go up. Its like, how do you get that news . For anybody who doesnt follow, you can really learn a lot of news by following kyle griffin. Hes also an amazing writer. You must be a great multitasker. Is probably tweeted this whole segment. You guys have a great weekend, and we will see you next weekend. Could morning to you. It is sunday, april 28th. A few days in American Politics can compare to what we saw last thursday when a pair of Court Proceedings for donald trump as he runs for president while also facing multiple criminal prosecutions. In a manhattan courtroom, donald trump, the twice impeached, four times
i thought you were fantastic last night. thank you, i thought you were fantastic. it is a society of mutual admiration. it was great, thanks for doing that. thanks for saying that, that is very kind of you and that means a lot. i just want to say about the timing, because i can t let it go unsaid, the supreme court is also waiting to release■ç this immunity deal until july 1st, which is like the fourth of july holiday. and all i want to know is what flag is flying over the alito house at long beach island. anybody who lives on long beach island, please take a photo. the country needs to know. i know it is going to be flying. i bet there are a lot of other fights people are mocking up, too. have a good weekend, my friend. okay, if you were brave enough to open the new york times this morning and you turned to the opinion section, this is what you would have seen. thomas friedman, joe biden is a good man and a good president, he must bow out of the race. frank br