Are expecting the Prime Minister to say. Are expecting the Prime Minister to sa. , are expecting the Prime Minister to sa. , are expecting the Prime Minister to sa. , say. Downing street say it is all speculation. Say. Downing street say it is all speculation, so say. Downing street say it is all speculation, so they say. Downing street say it is all speculation, so they wont say. Downing street say it is all. Speculation, so they wont confirm it. With a Party Gathering this weekend, there are sure to be a raft of policies coming forward. We expect something, we arent sure what it is going to be. We got a hint yesterday in a series of interviews with rishi sunak where he talks about the fact the vast majority of journeys talks about the fact the vast majority ofjourneys people make are in their cars. Hes been unashamedly pro motorists. The Guardian Newspaper is reporting what they might be looking out as a restriction on how councils can bring in those 20 mph zones. There may be fewer
Self employed . Somebody told me this morning who is Self Employed but Self Employed never go off sick, they cant afford it. Is that you or a myth . Looking at the texts, some are saying it is freeloading, it is chancing your arm. There are multiple reasons, Mental Health, stress, Cost Of Living Crisis, covid, long covid, which can be devastating. Ill be too quick to go on the say . Get in touch. Are we too sick . Nick hatfield has the news. Workers in the uk are estimated to be taking more sick days than at any point in the last decade. The Chartered Institute Of Personnel And Development stress, Cost Of Living pressures on my a Hospital Trust failed to centre 2a,000 letters from senior doctors to patients and gps, blaming a computer error. Newcastle hospital says the problem goes back to 2018. The nhs wants regulation patient safety. Home secretary Suella Braverman is expected to say the 1958 Un Refugee Convention might not be fit for the modern age. In a speech in washington she wil
Themselves at home on the course with the traditional photocall. Hello and welcome to the bbc news at one. Water companies in england and wales have been ordered to repay customers a total of £114 million, after failing to meet key targets. The industrys regulator, ofwat, said that firms arent performing well enough on issues including leaks and reducing pollution. The money will be returned by reducing household bills. Our environment correspondent jonah fisher has the details. This is the Water Companies end of year report, written by regulator ofwat. It assesses their performance against a number of indicators such as plugging leaks, the quality of the water supply and whether they have managed to reduce the number of Pollution Incidents. For most of the 17 companies, it s not pleasant reading. There is no top of the class this year, with none getting the highest score. Ten were rated as average, and seven told they are lagging behind. Poor performance comes with financial conseque
the idf knew exactly who they were and where they were and they were targeted as they were leaving, after they dropped the food aid at a known humanitarian warehouse. they were chased down, in a sense, after the first vehicle was hit. people fled from that vehicle and they were targeted again. the idf continued firing on trucks that were clearly marked with the bright logo of the world central kitchen. they continued firing until all aid workers were dead. israel claims it was a tragic accident and i think there needs to be an independent investigation. if it is a tragic accident, as they claim, then i think the idf is inept and incompetent and i think israel owes the families and the world an explanation. do you accept that explanation they have given so far that they say, that it was a mistake? i think that is a joke. they say it to protect themself. but, i mean, you know, i think it was meant. they wanted to do it, in a way that they want to keep on starving refugees out t
the date on the video suggests it was shot today. the town is near the front line of the fighting, about 20 miles from the disputed city of bakhmut. the sound, and the way the people in the street look up, suggest it may have been a missile or possibly an artillery shell. ukrainian officials say at least 3a other people were wounded. the attack happened shortly after the us secretary of state antony blinken arrived in kyiv the first visit by a senior american official since ukraine launched its counter offensive against russian forces. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams gave me this update from kyiv. yeah, this happened about three hours ago. and as president zelensky has indicated, he was very quick to point the finger of blame at russia. he actually said it was russian artillery that was responsible for this. this town is within russian artillery range. we don t yet know exactly what the nature of the projectile was, but certainly the images that have circulated subs