year s annual bastille parade? and we will talk movies, a glut of new releases currently at the cinema, but if the actors join the writers on the hollywood picket line, what will winter look like at the box office? all that to come, but lets start, shall we, on a positive note. the four teaching unions in england have called off their proposed strikes, after the prime minister honoured the recommendations of the pay review bodies. rishi sunak has ruled out any further borrowing to increase the salaries of public sector workers, which means that today s announcement, which goes well beyond the 3.5 percent deemed affordable by the treasury, will need come from existing budgets. mr sunak said government departments will need to reprioritise spending to fund the increase raising fears of cuts across public services. the prime minister said this was a final offer, and there would be no further negotiation. it would not be right to increase taxes on everyone to pay some people
contempt of parliament over his own lockdown behaviour, and says he should recuse himself. we ll be asking the political writer and johnson biographer andrew gimson and the shadow leader of the house thangam debbonaire how they think this sorry tale will end. also tonight. with gilt rates throught the roof and inflation refusing to plunge, will interest rates have to rise and result in more mortgage misery? we ll be asking an economic adviser to chancellorjeremy hunt and a former bank of england insider. we have a report from the palestinian territories on how young people see the political situation there. what do you hope for? we all hope for the same thing, to liberate palestine. but what does that really mean? and what does the question really mean, what do you hope for? i can hope for many things. and whatjust happened in california? it s a new world record. tonight we ll bejoined by a record holding super cuber who s going to show us how its done. good evening. in the h
and the japanese authorities say a coastguard aircraft involved in yesterday s fatal collision at tokyo s haneda airport wasn t cleared for take off. the smaller aeroplane collided with a japan airlines passengerjet on the runway, leading to a fireball and the deaths of five people. russia and ukraine have agreed to exchange hundreds of prisoners of war, after what moscow described as difficult negotiations. this programme continues on bbc one. today, two other parties are out of the starting blocks. on the eve of big speeches from the labour and conservative leaders, today we had a farage free reform uk press conference. and a lib dem stunt. richard tice, the reform leader, and daisy cooper, deputy leader of the lib dems, are here. all politicians are up against some grim economic warnings. i think it s more likely than not we will see the uk entering recession over the course of 202a. it is a coin toss if you look at economic forecasts. so how will the economy play into t
hello, i m rajini vaidyanathan. welcome to verified live three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. more than 100 people have been killed and scores of others injured in two explosions in south eastern iran near the grave of a top revolutionary guards commander. state television says the blasts occurred in quick succession in the city of kerman, during a ceremony to mark the anniverssary of the killing of qassem soleimani. he was iran s most powerful military commander and was killed in 2020 by a us air strike in iraq. local officials say two bags containing explosives were detonated by remote control at the entrance to the burial site. with more on this, our bbc persian reporter, parham ghobadi, is in the newsroom. good to talk to you. bring us up to date on what war we know. figs good to talk to you. bring us up to date on what war we know.- date on what war we know. as you mentioned. date on what war we know. as you mentioned, this date