chris mason has broken down the highlights of the debate. is tonight the night you can turn things around, prime minister? the big question for rishi sunak. the polls aren t budging. could this be the moment for a game changer? and here s the guy who wants hisjob. is tonight the night you seal the deal? pleasantries, smiles and you can bet for both of them a bag of nerves. the debate under way, and the biggest topic of our time, the cost of living, set out by paula from huddersfield in the studio audience. my savings are gone and i m genuinely. worried about my future. i don t think you understand . how this is for people like me. so what can you do about that? both men expressed sympathy, and then the argument began. of course i know everyone is onlyjust starting to feel the benefits of it, but inflation is back to normal, wages are growing, taxes are now being cut. keir starmer would put all that progress at risk. he would put up everyone s taxes by £2,000. keir starme
And the fire broke out in the early hours of this morning between 12 and one oclock. The first call to the Metropolitan Police was at 1 15am. The blaze, you can see now there are no flames this stage, just smoke, and you can see the damage done to the building. Lets give you a sense from the images last night from the early hours of the morning. You can get a real sense of the scale of the blaze that was engulfing the building. Lets tell you about who is tackling the fire at the moment. Around 200 firefighters, a0 fire engines, and of course London Ambulance has sent a number of vehicles and medical staff to the scene. 0ur Correspondent is at the scene this morning. Tell us what you can see. Well, you can see the block is still alight. You can see some flames there. You can see the Fire Brigade Hosing down the lower reaches of the building. But the fire service said that this was a blaze reaching from the second floor right up to the 27th floor. Its been a blaze for five hours now. We
Code of conduct. Good morning and welcome to bbc newsroom live. More than a0 of Maternity Wards in england closed their doors to expectant mothers at least once in 2016, according to data from the labour party. 42 out of 96 trusts in england that responded to a Freedom Of Information Request said theyd shut Maternity Wards temporarily on 382 occasions. The most common reasons given were too few staff and not enough beds. But the government says the numbers are misleading. Our health correspondent, Dominic Hughes has more. For some years, Maternity Units have been struggling to recruit enough midwives. The Royal College of midwives says theres a shortfall of around 3,500. Now, based on a Freedom Of Information Request, labour says a growing number of Maternity Units are closing doors to new mothers. In england, 136 nhs trusts offer Maternity Services. Last year, 42 of them closed their doors to new admissions at least once. There were 382 separate locations where units were closed, up b
400 mark. figs its own would be crossing the 400 mark- its own would be crossing the 400 mark. as far as the bjp is concerned. 400 mark. as far as the bjp is concerned, there 400 mark. as far as the bjp is concerned, there will - 400 mark. as far as the bjp is concerned, there will be - 400 mark. as far as the bjp is concerned, there will be a - 400 mark. as far as the bjp is concerned, there will be a lot | concerned, there will be a lot of navel gazing as to why they got this outcome. they didn t get that landslide victory they were really hoping for. what are people saying about that, where have they gone wrong? so where have they gone wrong? sr one where have they gone wrong? 5r one key state in india where the results were very critical for any political party is the state of uttar pradesh, and northern india. why is this state important? letter a, northern india. why is this state important? lettera, it s the most populous state in the country, b, it is the state which send
which is harder, getting people to focus on the campaign are getting people excited about it. so, double choice, democratic concerns about the wedding campaign are letter a? we talk too much, we have to say only one letter. a, spot on, b, predictable, democrats, c, what you get with an 80-year-old candidate, or people have underestimated biden again and again? look, i don t think this is necessarily about age specifically., mccartney s 82, bob dylan is 83. everyone is different, but the fact is joe biden does not seem to have the kind of control that he used to have, he doesn t seem to have the sharpness that he used to have and it is very, we have to be careful, we don t want to stigmatize somebody based on their age. at the same time, this is the reality with this candidate. we don t know how he will perform on a debate stage. we don t know who he is even going to be 12 months from now. and it is very worrying because so much feels at stake, especially if he is running.