me and the big c cancer podcast will be published today. and images captured by drone cameras to help monitor deer populations in england. good morning and welcome. the government is set to announce details of a £1 billion investment to tackle emergency care delays in the nhs. the two year blueprint will mean a roll out of extra hospital beds and ambulances in england. the government is expected to pledge 5,000 new beds, increasing capacity by 5%. there will also be a 10% boost in ambulances, with 800 new vehicles on the road. prime minister rishi sunak calls it an ambitious and credible plan, but warns the plan to cut delays will take time . meanwhile, labour have accused the government of watering down key standards and say the plans aren t enough to tackle the pressures the nhs is facing. 0ur health correspondent jim reed has more. ambulance staff are waiting with their patients to come to the emergency department cubicles, which are currently full. record waits in a&e
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and teachers unions today to avoid wednesday s planned strike in england and wales. and images captured by drone cameras to help monitor deer populations in england. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the former british prime minster, borisjohnson, has revealed to the bbc that he felt personally threatened by vladimir putin in the run up to the invasion of ukraine last year. mrjohnson said that during a telephone conversation and after a visit to kyiv the russian president said it would only take a minute to hurt him with a missile. the claim comes in a new bbc documentary about mr putin s leadership. here s our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. kyiv, last february a city on the brink of war. borisjohnson arrives in a show of support for a president, who is yet to replace his suit and tie with army fatigues. alongside other countries, we are also preparing a package of sanctions and other measures. the prime minister publicly urg
a pay rise without having money then support assistants get sacked. so she has, the minimum she has to say is there is money that we can use to invest in our children s education and the people who teach our children. ., , ., children. kevin courtney, “oint veneral children. kevin courtney, “oint general secretary children. kevin courtney, “oint general secretary of i children. kevin courtney, “oint general secretary of the h children. kevin courtney, joint i general secretary of the national education union, thank you very much indeed, and we will be in touch with you later today after these talks. the prime minister is facing further questions this morning about his knowledge of nadhim zahawi s tax affairs. downing street has defended rishi sunak sjudgment, saying it was right for him to wait for the outcome of an ethics investigation, before sacking the former conservative party chairman. 0pposition parties say the prime minister should have acted sooner, when it emerged t
report from sir laurie magnus was, that will be quite tricky. there is a question about the state of play in the conservative party. there are different factions, some of whom might want to make life a bit difficult for rishi sunak over the next few weeks and months. and there is the fact that rishi sunak came into office as prime minister with a pledge to get over some of the scandals and rows that we have been covering for the past couple of years on the bbc. some of the things we saw under borisjohnson, for example, rishi sunak promised that ink accountability, and i suppose the question he s facing is how hard is it to actually move on from some of these rows? there is still that investigation into dominic raab that needs to include, there is going to be a very public probe into what borisjohnson be a very public probe into what boris johnson told be a very public probe into what borisjohnson told mps about party gates and whether he was completely transparent, and all the while mr