how local lad sean longstaff has these newcastle fans dreaming, as the club reach a first final since 1999. it s official liverpool has become the host of this year s eurovision song contest in a special handover ceremony in the city. it isa it is a dry and bright day in the south and east, but expect some rain in the north and west. the strong winds will gradually ease. good morning. it s wednesday, 1st february. hundreds of thousands of workers are going on strike today, in the biggest day of industrial action in more than a decade. among them are more than 100,000 teachers in england and wales. teachers in some parts of scotland are also taking action in a separate dispute. unions say more than 23,000 schools could be disrupted, with many having to close. 0ur education reporter vanessa clarke has more. it s been a familiar sight in scotland for months. but for the first time in seven years, teachers in england, and teachers and support staff in wales, are joining the act
dame deborahjames, who has died aged a0 after receiving end of life care for bowel cancer. she challenged taboos and change the conversation around bowel cancer. a 29 year old man has been charged with murdering zara aleena in england s capital, london, as she walked home from a night out in the early hours of sunday morning. a former white house aide gives damning testimony about donald trump s actions during the storming of the us capitol building last year, saying he knew people in the crowd were armed but he didn t care. ghislaine maxwell is jailed for 20 years in a us prison for recruiting and trafficking teenage girls for her then boyfriend jeffrey epstein. and a bbc investigation finds the number of holiday lets in england has risen by 40% in the past three years, with concerns some residents are being pushed out of areas as a result. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. we start with the nato summit in madrid, where president biden has a
After that much better than expected jobs report in the us last week. The chinese economy may be slowing, but tourism is booming well get the inside track on chinas rise as a holiday hotspot. Another form of tourism doing well is adventure tourism, up 65 a year. With retirees fuelling the growth, swapping the cruise ship for the canoe. Is it your idea of holiday hell. We want to hear from you. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Decision day is getting ever closer for the dutch and tonight they get what for many could be a decisive last and tonight they get what, for many, could be a decisive last look at the candidates before wednesday elections. The leading candidates will hold their final tv debate later. The dutch vote is the first of three big elections across europe this year Casting Uncertainty over the continent. Soon after come the votes in france and germany. Financial markets are watching them all closely. Not least for what their results might mean for the future of the euro.
this one is a particularly special diary for me because it s the last one that she wrote. liz is one of the relatives taking legal action against the government and others over what she sees as a failure to properly protect care home residents like her mum from covid. she believes the diary tells that story. this one is dated march the 3rd, tuesday. she felt pretty good. but the staff situation was bad. in march 2020, the virus took hold in the uk. care providers said they needed more government guidance and that they were struggling to get protective equipment and testing. on march the 17th, the government allowed hard pressed hospitals to discharge patients into care homes without testing or the need to isolate people. margaret s family claim that included into her home. on march the 23rd, the country went into lockdown. nearly a month later, as covid deaths in care homes