first satellite mission launched from british soil malfunctions. home entertainment sales go through the roof as households spend big on videos, music and gaming. and coming up on the bbc news channel, could we see more cup upsets later? newcastle will be hoping to right the wrongs of their fa cup shock. they are in league cup quarterfinal action tonight. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. as strike action today continues for some public sector workers, the government is to introduce a bill to ensure a minimum level of service during periods of industrial action. under the proposals affecting england, wales and scotland, some trade union members would be required to continue working. today in scotland, primary school teachers are closed as teachers strike in their dispute over pay. last ditch talks with the scottish government yesterday, failed to reach agreement. the unions rejected a 5% pay rise, with further walk outs planned tomorrow, hitting state seconda
relations lawyer. also this afternoon. there were more excess deaths than usual in the uk last year. the highest number outside the covid pandemic in half a century. some shops open at midnight to meet demand for prince harry s heavily trailed autobiography, which is now on sale. and a setback, not a roadblock. the team behind a uk space mission which failed to launch say they will keep on trying. and this picture has been causing something of a stir on social media today, because someone or something is missing. we will be revealing all. good afternoon. in the last few minutes, the government has been introducing draft legislation to limit future industrial action in the public sector. the bill would cover health, fire and railway workers. ministers say it would introduce a minimum level of service. unions have reacted angrily to the proposals, which they say potentially are undemocratic and unworkable, and would limit the right to strike. the business secretary grant shapps
what a story over the weekend. two teenagers were shot outside of new york congressman lee zeldin s long island home. one of the bullets hitting the congressman s fence. his twin daughters were inside doing homework at the time. they ran upstairs. closed themselves into a bathroom and called 911. the detectives now investigating this incident as gang related. zeldin, who has made rising crime one of his top campaign issues, boy did it come home for him over the course of this weekend. here he is earlier today. we get a phone call from our daughter, mckala, we hear our other daughter in the background crying. they were at the kitchen table doing homework. all of a sudden they hear multiple gunshots. they hear screaming. they run upstairs, lock themselves in the bathroom. this is day after day after day. the reality right now in this state is that new yorkers don t feel safe. that feeling of safety may be less common with numbers like this, violent crime in new york city up
this line from an op-ed might be most telling, not a word president biden said will pardon his party from a reckoning next week. this afternoon he will deliver remarks on student debt relief and heads to mexico to no word on whether he will visit the southern border. carley: brooke singman has more fallout from biden s speech, brooke. brooke: president biden will avoid the main battleground straights as he heads to new mexico and california, this trip after he blasted maga republicans in a dramatic speech last night. listen. president biden: we the people must decide if rule of law will prevail or if we will allow the dark forces to thirst for power put ahead of principles that have long guided us. american democracy is under attack because the defeated president of the united states refuse to accept the results of the 2020 election. brooke: biden attacking trump supporters. the president also tying the attack on nancy pelosi s husband to january 6. president biden: