Vladimir putin is a mobster whose gangsters killed her husband. Powerful Republican Senate leader, Mitch Mcconnell has announced he will step down later this year. He is the longest serving republican leader in the us senate, and says hell step down from the role in november of this year. The high court in Belfast Rules A Uk decision to offer immunity for crimes committed during the troubles is in breach of eu legislation. The cases brought by relatives of victims who claimed it was unconstitutional. With claims the death toll in gaza has reached nearly 30,000, new details emerge about a potential ceasefire. Good evening. The Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell, a towering figure in american politics, will step down as the gop leader in november. The Kentucky Republican said he will continue to serve, but from november he will hand the reigns of the Senate Republican conference to someone from the next generation. Mcconnell turned 82 last week. Heres part of his announcement this
andm we ll be hearing all about the appeal and we ll be hearing all about the appeal to recruit more bell ringers, in time for the king s coronation. good morning and welcome to bbc news. health secretary steve barclay will meet members of the royal college of nursing today after the union announced it would suspend a planned strike in england next week to enter talks on pay with the government. in a joint statement, both the college and the department of health and social care said they would begin intensive talks on pay, terms and conditions and producitivity enhancing reforms. government proposals for next year s public sector pay are also being drawn up. the rcn had originally asked for a pay rise of 5% above inflation. it has since said it would be willing to meet the government half way. next week s walk out in england, from the first to the third of march, was set to be the biggest strike so far of this winter s dispute, with half of front line services affect
tonight with the context. from edinburgh, alex massie scotland editor of the spectator. bill browder, the ceo of hermitage capital management and long time critic of vladimir putin. and joel rubin, who served in the obama administration as assistant to the secretary of state. welcome to the programme. whenjoe biden spoke to vladimir zelensky on this day last year, there wasn t much confidence in washington he would be president for much longer, nor indeed that kyiv could be defended. yet here we are, a year on and not only is zelensky still there, but the us president was today standing alongside him, in kyiv. plans that involved extraordinary subterfuge and secrecy. on sunday night, as is usual, the white house issued the president s public schedule for monday, on which we were told he was leaving for warsaw at 7pm tonight. in fact, he was already in poland. air force one took off at 4:15 sunday morning, the press pool was left behind. and by late evening, the president was
york shortly. more on those stories in a moment. let s get more business news. good afternoon. we start in the uk where the first transatlantic flight by a passenger plane powered solely by so called, sustainable aviation fuel , has taken off. the virgin atlantic flight from london to new york currently somewhere over the atlantic ocean is part funded by the uk government. it s running on fuel made from a mixture of sources including crops, household waste and cooking oils. it has a significantly lower emissions lifecycle than traditionaljet fuel and is being billed by the industry as a big tool in hitting net zero targets but a lack of supply is a major stumbling block. we re nowjoined by hannah lawrence, who s a campaigner at stay grounded. hello there to you. many people this morning and in the build up saying it is usually significant. you, however, the organisation refers to carbon, colonisation. it’s however, the organisation refers to carbon, colonisation.
and showing no signs of returning to work, those benefits would be stopped if they didn t take part in some workplace return to the workplace scheme. i m nowjoined by thomas lawson, chief executive of a benefits charity of the thank you for being here for the what did you make of that decision? to stop benefits from those who are not trying to get actively back into work? ., , ., ., , trying to get actively back into work? .,, ., .,, .,, work? crop that was the most concerning work? crop that was the most concerning thing work? crop that was the most concerning thing my - work? crop that was the most. concerning thing my colleagues work? crop that was the most - concerning thing my colleagues heard today to stop what is it really means to completely stop someone but benefits after they have been through a period of perhaps two years try to get into work? chances are there are real issue stopping from working for the it s interesting to hear the conservatives talk about co