as thousands of teachers and junior doctors walk out in disputes over pay. oscars glory for the short film an irish goodbye. james martin talks to us about hobnobbing with the stars on the day he turned 31. manchester city in seventh heaven as star man erling haaland scores five. pep guardiola s side thrash rb leipzig and ease into the champions league quarterfinals. good morning. under clear skies last night, the northern lights once again when clearview, but under those same clear skies it is a cold start with a widespread frost, the risk of ice and some sunshine, but rain piling in from the west preceded by snow, but also milder air. i will have more later. good morning. it s wednesday 15th march. our main story. chancellorjeremy hunt will today announce his spring budget, with an expansion of free childcare for working parents in england expected to be top of the list. getting thousands of people into work, including those with disabilities and people on universal credit,
it has a systemic racial bias and misses repeat offenders. one officer had 11 complaints against him, from assault to abuse to sexual harassment. he s still in the met. parm sandhu was a chief superintendent. black and asian officers are 80% more likely to be accused of misconduct. she was one and sued for discrimination. i absolutely was targeted because of my racial background. and the fact that i had raised a misconduct issue many years before against another senior officer. and because of that, you then become targeted yourself, you become ostracised. when two police officers take photos with the dead bodies of murdered sisters nicole smallman and biba henry, then share them with colleagues, it is clear too many unsuitable officers have been allowed to stay. it is time now for change. we need that because when we are in trouble, the only people we can call are the police. and if you are not sure that they are going to be honest and true, we are all left in a terrible stat
highs reaching around 18 or 19 degrees across parts of the south of the uk. very mild for the time of year. and that s bbc news at ten on monday the 17th of october. stay with us here on the bbc news channel [i continuing coverage and analysis from our team of correspondents in the uk and around the world. you re watching bbc news i m james reynolds. more now on the news that prime minister says she is sorry and accepts responsibility for the mistakes that have been made in her tax cutting plans as her new chancellor announced he was tearing almost all of them up. in an interview tonight with our political editor chris mason liz truss acknowledged that her plans had gone too far and too fast but insisted she wasn t going anywhere and said she would lead the conservatives into the next general election. the prime minister has been speaking to our political editor chris mason. prime minister, who is to blame for this mess? first of all i do want to accept responsibility
just tell me what i did to you. i just tell me what i did to you. liust just tell me what i did to you. liust don t just tell me what i did to you. ijust don t like you know more and we speak to colin farrell and brendan gleeson about their new film about the end of a friendship. the former british prime minister borisjohnson and the ex chancellor rishi sunak, have held face to face talks about the conservative leadership race, though neither has formally declared their intention to stand. penny mordaunt, the leader of the house of commons, was the first to formally declare, on friday. mr sunak has the public support of over a hundred conservative mps the threshold required for the leadership contest this time. some of mrjohnson s former cabinet colleagues have warned against his return to downing street, barely three months after a series of scandals forced him out. our political correspondent damian grammaticas has been following events. are you running for the leadersh
ill health for the unexpected removal of the former president from a hall during the communist party congress. the news agency said that he insisted on attending the closing ceremony even though he was recuperating then felt unwell. here on bbc news, the travel show. this week on the show: pulling down the past. i believe that the monuments would not give a tribute to the regime but they should preserve the history and the memory. ..feeling the heat. . .. we re getting major fires every year now, and multiple ones. oh, my god! ..and up to our knees in an estonian bog. there s a lot there. there s a lot. for 300 years, on and off, estonia was part of russia. ruled first by the czarist empire, then the soviet union. links between the two are many and deep in fact, around a third of the people here have russian as theirfirst language. but since the invasion of ukraine in february, the government has steered a course very firmly away from its powerful neighbour. there have been