we ll hear from teachers who say parents have made their lives a misery. hello and welcome to the programme. we re live until 11am. throughout the programme we ll bring you the latest breaking news and developing stories and, as always, keen to hear from you. do get in touch on all the stories we re talking about this morning. our top story today. labour has promised to increase pay for nhs staff and scrap tuition fees for student nurses if it wins the general election. the party says it will abolish the current cap for staff in england which limits pay increases to 1%. labour said the policies would help address staffing shortages in england that had become a threat to patients . our political guru norman smith is in westminster for us now. hi norman, good morning. so, how much will this pay rise be for nhs staff? well, labour are saying they wa nt staff? well, labour are saying they want people in the nhs to get a pay rise in line with the cost of living. so that means goi
in the last few minutes corbyn cosh says he will not take part in an opposition leaders debate. he says it is in response of theresa may s refusal to participate. west ham and newcastle united football clubs have been raided as part of a fraud investigation a number of arrests have been made. surrey police are strongly criticised for returning shotguns to a man who went on to murder his partner and her daughter. almost a decade after madeleine mccann disappeared, detectives say they are still following a critical lead. also and in the next hour both sides of the korean border have seen live firing exercises, as donald trump prepares to brief the us senate on heightened tensions in the area. and swipe left for an endangered animal one rhino s search for a partner on the dating app tinder. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. there were angry exchanges in the commons today in what was the last prime ministers questions before parliament is dissolved next week. the pri
in from reuters telling us the inspector general of the pentagon has launched an investigation into whether michael flynn, trump s former national security adviser, accepted money from foreign entities without the required approval. you may remember the story as we have covered it many times on outside source. michael flynn left the trump administration earlier this year after it was revealed that he had misled the vice president about his communications with the russian ambassador. this is the leading democratic on the committee that exercises oversight for the federal government. i honestly do not understand why the white house is covering up for michael flynn. i don t get it. after the president fired him for lying. so the president fired him for lying about communications with the russian ambassador. they should be bending over backwards to help us. it does not make any sense and it makes the american people think the white house has something to hide. the white house spo
post. what did the president and trump administration announced today? they announced major changes to the corporate tax system and the individual tax system. they lower the corporate tax rate, the rate businesses pay from 35% to 15%. also allowed small businesses that pay through the individual income tax system to use that 15% rate as well. they think that will create more hiring, investing, and more money to slosh around in the economy to create more revenue. on the individual side, they proposed eliminating the seven tax racket that currently exist, replacing them with three brackets. and incentivizing people to no longer itemize their deductions and a host of other things they think will help the middle class and low income people. charlie: do most people think this will stimulate economic growth? a lot of people believe if you cut taxes, inevitably people and businesses will have more cash to spend and invest. but if you cut them by this much and it leads to this mu
highs reaching into the low 70s. it will be windy with that sun as we transition from cooler to warmer weather, we ll talk about that in the forecast for the weekend in about five minutes. make is now tracking two crashes for the east bay. more cars hit the east beay freeways. south bay peninsula no surprises. the tri-valley moves well. the east bay, one concern is southbound 880 just before you get to a street, past a street you see a crash that may be blocking one lane so we have slowing and off the castro valley y, as the volume builds it s lighter than we often see. we have this crash. highway 4, it involves a motorcycle. this is the second of the morning, everything is off the shoulder but motorcycle involved krashlgs, we see people standing around and more spectators, a smoother drive toward the bay bridge. the backup at the toll plaza. back to you. mike, thank you very much. happening later today, police in berkeley bracing for potentially nasty protests amid what