and also ahead: a big night in hollywood. have you been round? i haven t been round. have i been round? colin farrell wins best actor at the golden globes. we ll have the latest from the awards, trying to recover from controversy. hello and welcome. we have a fax programme ahead. packed programme ahead. we begin here in the uk, where more than 20,000 ambulance and support staff have gone on strike in a row over pay and conditions, with health service leaders warning the system is in a precarious position. call handlers and dispatchers are also taking part in the industrial action, the second such strike to take place in england and wales in three weeks. people are being warned that ambulances may not be dispatched for some emergencies, such as heart attacks and strokes, and the effect this time is expected to be worse than the first walkout. gareth barlow reports. it is the second walkout by ambulance staff this winter. workers including paramedics, emergency care assistan
and it s half time for the last round of premier league games manchester city trail aston villa and liverpool equalise against wolves if it stays like that city will be champions. welcome to bbc news. in the last few minutes, a deadline has passed for civil servants who want to object to being named in sue gray s partygate report to respond a move which could delay publication. this morning, the education secretary, nadhim zahawi, defended a meeting which took place last month between ms gray and borisjohnson insisting it would not have influenced the outcome of the inquiry. our political correspondentjonathan blake has the latest. borisjohnson, the prime minister whose political fate could rest on the findings of a report by the senior civil servant sue gray. weeks ago, the two held a meeting who called it, what was discussed depends on who you ask. one cabinet minister says the row does not matter sue gray has complete control over her inquiry, and the prime m
and coming up a full lunar eclipse, giving people the chance to see what s known as a super blood moon. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. finland and sweden have abandoned their military non alignment and announced their intention tojoin nato in response to russia s invasion of ukraine. the alliance s secretary general jens stoltenberg has described the move as historic while president putin, talking of finland, described the plan as a mistake . nato, the north atlantic treaty organization, is a military alliance which was formed in 1949 by 12 countries including the us, the uk, canada and france. after the soviet union s collapse in 1991, many former eastern bloc countriesjoined nato. finland which has a border of more than 1,300 kilometre russia and sweden want to join now. nato foreign ministers, who have been meeting in berlin, said they wanted a rapid accession because of the ukrainian crisis. our europe correspondent, nick
late. we could relate to do with a good drink for the flowers and plants are just getting started and this low pressure will deliver that into wednesday. at the moment we have a tail end of the weather front across the far east of england but that has not amounted to much rain. that should be quite a lot of sunshine across the whole of the uk this afternoon but some showers into western scotland and scattered ones for northern england. the showers in western scotland get quite intense as we look through the overnight period, could be some heavy rain and then the future you saw on the satellite picture pushing towards the south west of england by the end of the night. we still have some question marks aboutjust how far north it may push, the more persistent rain but it looks like we could see some into lancashire or parts of yorkshire and briefly through wednesday. it looks like wales and the south west will start off wet as rain pushes across the midlands, lincolnshire and in
Uncertain future. Everyone is locked in. We are here now, its kind of in. We are here now, its kind of unbelievable status. Backin back in the Fast Lane Item Pt Races into the british championship final into the british championship final in the quickest time in the world this year. Theres no break in the football at the moment, theres a full round of premier League Matches over the next three nights, five this evening with the main focus around relegation, three of the bottom five are playing. Burnley are unbeaten in three and still dreaming, win tonight and they could be one point off safety, but that also depends on how Nottingham Forest and everton get on. Ben croucher reports everton a re everton are on a tour of the run, this is the team arriving at newcastle in the last 30 minutes, at their last league when it was before christmas. Ben croucher reports its the time of year where teams look to spring forward, if you can bear to watch anyway. For everton, no 12 premier bear to wat