we ll have the latest from picket lines in england, scotland and wales. also on the programme: large crowds are expected in memphis for the funeral of tyre nichols, the black man who died after being detained by police. two men get life in prison for killing a 71 year old woman, to steal her life savings. and the potentially deadly radioactive capsule the size of ap retrieved from the australian outback. and coming up on the bbc news channel: chelsea confirm they have completed the signing of argentina midfielder enzo fernandez from benfica for a record £107 million. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. it s thought to be the biggest day of industrial action in more than a decade across the uk, with tens of thousands of people on strike, in disputes over pay, jobs, and conditions. teachers, train drivers, civil servants, university staff, bus drivers all are on strike in different parts of the country, with teachers in the national education union the largest g
out later today how many schools have been closed due to the strike action and let s you live pictures of members of the national education union marching through central london as part of their dispute. you get a bit of a sense of the scale of the action. the unions are estimating as many as 100,000 teaching staff would be taking part. the march of course is not far from number ten downing st. let s get some closing thoughts on all of this. nick eardley is at westminster. we can go back and forth on numbers but there is no question that many hundreds of thousands of people will be affected by all the strike action right across the country today. and they will want to know is where i ll be in terms of trying to resolve so many of these disputes? plat many of these disputes? not particularly many of these disputes? not particularly close many of these disputes? iirrt particularly close seems to be the