He remains in good spirits. He was sentenced, on saturday, for failing to declare money earned from selling state gifts, while he was in office. After the verdict he was taken from his home directly to prison. He has denied the charges. Lets speak to mian hammad azhar,|mran khan s aide and formerfinance and energy minister. Thank you forjoining us on the programme. Tell us a little bit more about the situation with the former Prime Minister. You say that or his lawyers say they are deplorable conditions but he remains in good spirits. Conditions but he remains in good sirits. ,. ,. , spirits. That is correct. Hes not been given spirits. That is correct. Hes not been given because spirits. That is correct. Hes not been given because that spirits. That is correct. Hes noti been given because that former spirits. That is correct. Hes not been given because that former Prime Ministers in pakistan are entitled to. Hes being held in a cell with open toilets, that is an unclean, unhygienic a
this was a final offer and further industrial action would not change that decision. the teaching unions immediately responded, by suspending their plans for further strikes. the announcement came asjunior doctors began five days of strikes what their union calls the longest stirke action in the nhs history. these are the pictures from one of the picket lines in central london. they re demanding a pay increase of over 30%. ministers have said that s unreasonable and risks fueling inflation. we ll have more on that in a minute. let s have a quick look, though, at the recommendations which affect millions of workers. police officers have been offered 7%. consultants, dentists and gps, 6%. junior doctors, 6%. prison officers, 7%. the armed forces, 5%. teachers, 6.5%. this was rishi sunak a little earlier. i can confirm today that we are accepting the headline recommendations of the pay review bodies in full. but we will not fund them by borrowing more or increasing your t
have a critical decision to make on this program. we re going to do our best to bring you access to the candidates as they re available. last night we kicked off our town hall series in termsale of the election seasonri and tha all important caucus state oftef iowa. we did iormet with former president donald trump . now the president s state after show for a considerable periodsw of time and took a lot of questions from town hall parties, events. take a look. and i want to talk about issues first, because those are the real issues that impactpactp people s lives. there are other issues. i ll askeopllives. about, but it to start with what matters. peacd and butter issues, peacet and prosperity. and and the future drive electin ,in my opinion. so we have a border thatcont, is out of control. why woul wd they open upgn the border? do you think this was by design? do you think by the end of this year, joe biden, by estimates, will have allowed in estimat se a half million i
it s not my job to sit here and debate the candidate. we re going to ask him aboutmatt the issues of the day thater tog actually matter to the people that came out here tonight ie rn the rain and thunder and lightning, the voters and they will also have their questions as well. f nothing is off the table. and as o if now, trump is nothe only beating his republican rivals, but he s also beating president biden. real clear politics, averagra . trump is uto hp inea a head to d match up there in the mostrd recent harvard harris poll has him up by seven points overst joe biden. the vast majority of americans , includin mg hademocrats, they re not happy with joe biden. i don t think manyen, to the americans are happy with joe biden, to say the least. and based on recent polls,and b voters believe that biden is corrupt, incompetent, creepy ol mentalld, mentally, physical cognitively unfit to serve. by the way, today was no exception at the air force academy. biden could not rememb
today after filing paperwork. mikes christie says hean couldnn announce in the coming days. and mike pence s allies are launching a super pac, but all eyes are on ron desantis. racee the florida governor is expected to officially get into the race next week and he is giving his biggest tease yet . i he just completed what i would say is the the boldest and most far-reaching agenda that we ve seen in the modern history of the republican party. k at wha been ableif you look an able to accomplish, there is something in there forth anybody in terms of the issues that we tackled at the end of the day, what our country needs to be about is this idea that it really doesn t matter whereel you start from, thate have peope have an opportunity to do big things in this country. and that s been true historically. and we neede to makeag sure it s true again to look att he i desantis also reportedly telling donors that he is the only republican who can beat president biden. but righght n