support in next week s budget. we ll catch up with lesley paterson the triathlete who s in the running at this weekend s oscars for her screenplay of a german first world war epic i went iwent up i went up to tom cruise and i said, hi, i went up to tom cruise and i said, hi. tom, i went up to tom cruise and i said, hi. tom, my i went up to tom cruise and i said, hi, tom, my name is lesley paterson. he said i hi, tom, my name is lesley paterson. he said i know hi, tom, my name is lesley paterson. he said i know your story. he said how many he said i know your story. he said how many hours a day do you dream? the six nations roars back into life this afternoon, as england meet france, both needing to win to keep title hopes alive, while wales are aiming to avoid a new low in rome. and after a frosty and icy start of the weekend there is a bit more snow to come the weekend there is a bit more snow to come tonight in northern parts but tomorrow looking much milder. al
brittney griner is pleading guilty to drug charges stemming from that february detainment at the moscow airport. she faces up to ten years in a russian prison unless negotiations can get under way for a prisoner swap. more on the reporting from the new york times overnight that former fbi director james comey and his deputy mccabe were both subjected to intensive, intrusive irs audits during the trump presidency. the odds of a single person being selected for that kind of audit are one in 30,000. for two men who basically had the same job, well, it s kind of like winning the worst lottery. certainly raising suspiciouses about the trump appointed leadership at the irz. we begin with keir simmons. how are the people reacting to this shakeup? another at the top of their political leadership. reporter: there will be those who are breathing a sigh of relief. there will be those who are disappointed because he s a colorful character. there are people and many people who liked
we won t play her games, we won t play roles in a tense game, when there is real work to be done, real work on the cost of living crisis, real work to invest in public services. the white house calls the deaths of 46 people found in an abandoned lorry on the outskirts of the texan city of san antonio, absolutely horrific and heartbreaking . ghislaine maxwell is due to be sentenced in the next few hours for recruiting and grooming minors for herformer partner, paedophilejeffrey epstein. borisjohnson faces a row over increased defence spending, as he heads to a nato summit likely to be dominated by the need to boost military resources to counter russia in ukraine. the odds of it being a war in europe have shortened almost as much as the timeline, so we must act. we cannot protect the british people or our allies with transformation strategies and glossy equipment. and coming up in sport, we ll be live at wimbledon as 23 time grand slam champion serena williams prepares to go o
hello there. as you have heard, last minute talks to avoid strike action on the uk s rail network have failed. now, millions of people will face travel misery as the biggest rail strike in 30 years brings services to a standstill in england, scotland and wales. the first strike started this morning and more are planned on most major lines on thursday and saturday. the rmt union says its members oppose stagnating pay and want justice. but industry bodies have warned against a strike action, saying it would shatter hopes of recovery for many businesses . joining me now is dr roger barker, director of policy at the institute of directors. thank you forjoining me today. is it fair to say that businesses will go under this week as a result of the strike? that may well be the case. this is gonna have a big impact on business. that impact will be quite uneven. some of us will be able to go back to working, taking off where we left off during covid. other sectors won t be able to do
Official figures from the office of National Statistics showed regular pay, excluding bonuses, rose by 7. 8 in may tojuly compared with a year earlier matching the pace of inflation over the same period. However, the Unemployment Rate increased to 4. 3 between may and july compared to 4. 2 the month before, and Job Vacancies fell to below a million. Lets hear from our money and work reporter Peter Ruddick who gave us a breakdown of what the figures mean. Lets just run through the two main headlines and what they mean so firstly on wage growth, so as you say, it has finally caught up on inflation in most of the uk, at least, but it is just an average, not everyone will be feeling it. It means it will be following the first time in a year, wage growth. It is just an average, but also it is going to take more than one months figures to reverse the many changes, people in the uk have been experiencing, it is going to take quite a while for this to recover. The second caveat is wage growth