seven months of disruption for the public before they agreed to get into a room, so the hope is that the lesson can be working with trade unions can deliver acceptable results to trade union members but also ones that work for the majority of the workforce and the government. let s move forwards and hope the next pay round is not as mired in difficulty. ijust i just heard from ijust heard from somewhere on a picket line in kent from the union unite, and we also heard that the rcn might be re balloting their members. do you have a message for the other nhs staff workers? i think it s important that all trade unions, we are all part of collective structures as well as individual trade unions, and that on our part, we need to acknowledge that it our part, we need to acknowledge thatitis our part, we need to acknowledge that it is not a unanimous position. i do struggle to remember a time when we have had unanimous positions on the staff side. it is very, very rare that you get s
welcome to the programme. yes, worldwide condemnation today of the 25 year sentence handed to kremlin critic vladimir kara murza. extraordinary courage from a man who had already been poisoned twice and still refused to relent. also tonight, we ll head to france to get reaction to emmanuel macron s speech to the nation on those controversial pension reforms. the president s approval ratings at rock bottom. and freezing on the big stage elon musk s spacex postponing this afternoon the launch their biggest ever rocket, the starship, over problems with a pressure valve. jonathan amos will be here to tell you all about it. but we are going to start tonight with the problems piling up for rishi sunak. there was news today than 196,000 hospital appointments had to be cancelled because of the junior doctors strike in england last week, with more nursing strikes now scheduled for the may bank holiday. on top of that, we learnt today the prime minister is under investigation by the
civil servants just staff. but with nurses, teachers, civil servants just some - staff. but with nurses, teachers, civil servantsjust some of - staff. but with nurses, teachers, civil servantsjust some of those | staff. but with nurses, teachers, l civil servantsjust some of those in civil servants just some of those in dispute, we have one big question this morning can we avoid a summer of strikes? in the last half hour, the health secretary has written to pat cullen, the woman who ll lead the nurses onto the picket lines for their most serious strike. she s here in the studio. and so will be the the cabinet minister, tory chairman, greg hands. how will the government stop that strike from happening? but you might wonder, does labour have a better answer? the shadow health secretary, wes streeting, is with us. and we ll lift our eyes to the heavens thejupiter icy moons explorer begins its eight yearjourney hunting for life beyond earth. professor carole mundell is the
under your pillow, what are your thoughts? 50 under your pillow, what are your thoughts? under your pillow, what are our thou~hts? ., , your thoughts? so we have been on day two. your thoughts? so we have been on day two, today, your thoughts? so we have been on day two, today, thursday, . your thoughts? so we have been on day two, today, thursday, of| on day two, today, thursday, of the budget. the big picture thing is that some of the think tanks, westminster s brains beyond government have been crunching through it and they have concluded what many a newscaster will know as the kind of bleeding obvious really, but they presented in the spreadsheet and the rest of it, which is that times are really tough people, that wages are squeezed, living standards are squeezed, living standards are squeezed, living standards are squeezed, that household income is squeezed and will be for a while, that the tax burden is the highest it has beenin burden is the highest it has been i
and at why so many workers in other sectors are also still at loggerheads with the government over pay. also on the programme: ten month old finley boden, murdered by his parents after being placed back into their care. 21 year old us guardsman jack teixera appears in court, charged with espionage over a huge leak of secret government documents. deux, un.top! and coming up in sport on bbc news. her second title this week britain sjessica gadirova wins all around gold at the european artistic gymnastics championships in turkey. good evening. nurses in england who are members of the rcn have voted to reject the government s pay officer. the move has been described as concerning for patients. the rcn says what has been offered today to simply not enough. a five percent pay rise from april was offered as well as a one off payment of at least £1,655 to top up the past year s pay award. but 54% of members who voted rejected the deal. and so the union have announced a 48 hour str