Porters. We have met the recommendations of the independent Pay Review Bodies forjunior doctors and consultants in full. We have cut their taxes on their pensions, as they requested, but they continue, they requested, but they continue, they continue to demand massive, unaffordable pay rises, and that they have chosen to walk out this week says it all. This strike is all about politics, not patients. Applause these strikes are not in the spirit of the nhs. This year we celebrate its 75 years of service and one of my abiding aim is as your Prime Minister is to set the nhs up for the next 75. True believers in the promise of the nhs wanted to reflect the world we live in today. That means a Higher Quality service that offers you the patient more choice, allowing you to use any provider, independent or nhs, free of charge, if that will get you treated quicker. A common sense reform that this conservative government has made. Applause now, next, steve and i want to give the nhs the staff i
Of them who arent happy. Arsenal crushed chelsea 5 0 to move clear in the premier League Title Race as it heads towards the thrilling conclusion. Baroness Floella Benjamin is honoured by bafta for her work supporting young people and pioneering diversity in childrens television. It will develop into a sunny dry day for many but more cloud in the east and the south west producing some showers and still a key northerly wind down the east coast. All the details later. Its wednesday the 24th of april. Our main story. More than 50 survivors of the migrant Boat Disaster in which five people died off the coast of france are recovering in england this morning, having declined to be rescued by french authorities. The incident took place just hours after parliament approved a bill to allow the uk to send some Asylum Seekers to rwanda. The government has said the new law will reduce illegal Channel Crossings but some migrants have said it wont deter them from trying. Graham satchell reports. The
it comes as a senior un aid official warned that half of gaza s population is starving, saying deliveries of food are now almost impossible because of the fierce fighting and aerial bombardment. our middle east correspondent yolande knell has the latest. the misery of life under canvas. fourin the misery of life under canvas. four in five gazans have now fled their home and they are still fighting to survive, with severe shortages of food and drinking water. aid agencies say they are struggling to deliver the basics, even close to the egypt order where supplies come in. supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment is supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment is the supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment is the only - supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment is the only lifeline l at the moment is the only lifeline for people and we are simply not able to get the access that we need to get t
speak to a chinese economist at oxford economics. we are in expansionary territory but still quite, we are looking at perhaps quite a week set of data going to the end of the year. week set of data going to the end of the year. what does this tell us about end of the year. what does this tell us about the end of the year. what does this tell us about the broader - tell us about the broader chinese economy? it tell us about the broader chinese economy? it affirms to us we are chinese economy? it affirms to us we are family chinese economy? it affirms to us we are family on chinese economy? it affirms to us we are family on a chinese economy? it affirms to | us we are family on a bottoming out process. in this bottoming out process. in this bottoming out as always going to be volatile there will be slight ups and slight downs but chinese policymakers will look at the data from today and think this is the second month of contraction, we definitely need more stimulus
hello. we start here in the uk, and the fourth day of campaigning ahead of the general election on the 4th ofjuly. labour says it won t raise income tax or national insurance, if it wins power. the pledge was made by the shadow chancellor, rachel reeves, speaking to the bbc, but she didn t rule out some spending cuts, saying there would be difficult decisions to make. leila nathoo has more. thank you very much. she wants to decide how taxpayers money is spent. rachel reeves making her pitch in west yorkshire this afternoon, promising a labour government would ensure economic stability. today, she said if she became chancellor there would be no rises in income tax or national insurance. but she acknowledged she would face difficult decisions and that public services were struggling. we re not going to be bringing back austerity, but we have got that immediate injection of cash into our front line public services. that s a down payment on the changes that we want to make. bu