Good afternoon, and welcome to the Bbc News at one. Several major Trade Unions have appealed directly to Sir Keir Starmer to reverse the decision to take away the Winter Fuel Payment for millions of pensioners. The plan to make it means tested was announced shortly after the election, with both the prime Minister And Chancellor insisting its necessary, and the money needs to be spent elsewhere. But tomorrow some of the governments own mps plan to abstain from a Commons Vote on the change, rather than backing it. Our Employment Correspondent Zoe Conway has the latest. Trade unions are celebrating that the Labour Party is back. For Trade Unions are celebrating that the Labour Party is back. The Labour Party is back. For the first time in the Labour Party is back. For the first time in 15 the Labour Party is back. For the first time in 15 years the Labour Party is back. For the first time in 15 years under the Labour Party is back. For the first time in 15 years under a first time in 15 y
Good morning, welcome to breakfast with rogerjohnson and sally nugent. Our headlines today a call for schools in england to open at evenings and weekends. The childrens commissioner says theyll be safe spaces to keep pupils away from gangs and violence. Hundreds flee the chaos created by dorian in the storm ravaged bahamas as the death toll rises to a3. Mps from across the political divide are ready to go to court to force the Prime Minister to seek a delay to brexit. Late wickets leave england in trouble, in the fourth ashes test. Theyre still nearly 300 runs behind australia so face a battle to save the match and the series. Ahead of tonights strictly launch, saffron barker and i check out fellow dancer, will bayleys moves, as the Paralympic Champion prepares for the european para table tennis championships. Good morning. Theres lots of dry, settled weather through the weekend. Just the odd isolated shower, but with clear skies by day, that means chilly conditions overnight. Ill have
Freed on health grounds, hamas said no longer hostages but survivors. Both were kidnapped by hamas gunmen from their homes in nir oz, the scars of looting and destruction still mark the empty kibbutz. This was what they lived through. The vision of home they took to gaza, just three miles away. And this was what they lived through there. Israeli air strikes, more than 300 a day, caught between their army and hamas. Many Palestinian Civilians feel the same. Gazas hamas run government says israeli strikes killed more than 400 people in a single day. Hope, draining from the chance of peace, still surfaces in the chance to save a life. Ibrahim from blackpool is trying to leave gaza with his mother and three siblings. They have been living here for a year. Buildings very close to us on our street, destroyed. We had to flee the house, flee our flat where we were living, and go to khan younis, and stay with Family Members. There were 43 of us staying in one flat. 0n the israeli side of the bo
they say it would pay for the recruitment and retention of 8,000 gps and will be funded by raising tax for the big banks. 0ur political correspondent jessica parker reports. leader of the liberal democrats ed davey. applause applause a day to make some noise. the liberal democrats have been loudly declaring nhs and social care in crisis. with a leader who has spoken about his experience of caring for his disabled son and previously his mother. , ., , ., his disabled son and previously his mother. , ., ., , ., mother. after years of conservative chaos and neglect, mother. after years of conservative chaos and neglect, the mother. after years of conservative chaos and neglect, the scale - mother. after years of conservative chaos and neglect, the scale of- mother. after years of conservative chaos and neglect, the scale of the| chaos and neglect, the scale of the challenge is enormous, so our manifesto doesn t shy away from that. we are putting forward a bold, ambitious
you want the bbc to cover, and time and again, housing came up. peter felix, who lives locally, was one of the many who contacted us through your voice, your vote. he and his partner are both in their 40s. they would love to buy a home together, but can t get onto the housing ladder. the average price paid by a first time buyer in the uk last year was just over quarter of a million pounds. that s up from £109,000 20 years earlier. the average age of a first time buyer in the uk is now 33. at the same time, private rental costs have gone up more than 9% in just the last year. so tonight, we re here in the black country to the west of birmingham, where peter now lives with his partner rebecca. 0ur midlands correspondent navtej johal has been to meet them. there s nothing, there s no help. we just want a home. we just want to have our own home. that s what we d probably like. peter paints and decorates homes. do you want to hand, pete? please. but he and his partner rebecca are