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
for as long as it takes. and, temperatures in japan are at the highest in nearly 150 years. now fears the electricity grid could be overwhelmed. hong kong is marking 25 years since britain handed over control of the territory to china. xijinping, china s president, has been in the city to celebrate the event. this was the scene at the railway station as mr xi arrived. he was greeted by the outgoing chief executive carrie lam, who he credits for stopping what he called chaos and violence in the territory. her time in office saw the erosion of civil liberties and the crushing of huge pro democracy protests. speaking ahead of the anniversary, the british prime minister, borisjohnson, accused beijing of failing to meet the commitments it made in 1997 to respect hong kong s freedoms. on the 25th anniversary of the handover, we simply cannot avoid the fact that, for some time now, beijing has been failing to comply with its obligations. it is a state of affairs that threatens bot
,off their strikes. and call off their strikes. it comes asjunior doctors in england start a five day strike described by their union as the longest in nhs history after their calls for a 35% pay increase were rejected. a bbc investigation finds new evidence that casts doubt on the greek coastguard s account of last month s migrant boat sinking. and the oscar winning actor, kevin spacey, begins giving evidence for the first time in his sexual assault trial. we ll be live outside the court. hello, i m matthew amroliwala. welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. we start with a major development here in the uk. after months of strikes among public sector workers, the government has said it will accept the recommendations from the pay review bodies in full. but it came with a warning from the prime minister, rishi sunak, that
Country, but also the nhs as a whole because if staff, if the conditions and pay keep deteriorating as they are, we are not going to have the staff that we need to provide the health care this country needs. let s turn to rebecca now. i know you work in maternity here. yes. no such thing as a typical day, but give us an idea of what you face when you go into work and how challenging it can be. so, it is an absolute privilege to do - the job that i do. i love it. and at the same time, | it is very, very intense. it is the same job, if you have seen this is going to hurt, which i think was a bbc production, it is that same job. i would say it is normal for emergency buzzers to be ringing, it s normal for there to be life - threatening situations for pregnant people and their babies every single day. - and we want to provide care that is notjust safe, but excellent to those people. it is intense and it is not an easyjob to do. - and i think that we see shifts that go i unfilled ev
Live now to helena wilkinson in the newsroom. she has the latest on the story and has been following it through the course of the week. let s do this in stages. forthe course of the week. let s do this in stages. for the bbc, course of the week. let s do this in stages. forthe bbc, restarting their investigation, what are the outstanding questions for them? i mean, there are lots of questions, aren t there, for the bbc? we know that, as you mentioned there, there will be no criminal investigation into this and the bbc had to pause their internal investigations until their internal investigations until the met police basically gave them the met police basically gave them the go ahead to carry on. so the bbc is now continuing with their investigations. they will carry out a review and that will be looking at how they handled is. you will remember the complaint by the family of the person in the original sun newspaper story, the allegations that the presenter, unnamed at the time, who we