it certainly isn t all that we would have asked for. but it is an offer that we can put to our members. health workers say the effects of the strike action could have been avoided had the prime minister and his team responded earlier. this agreement rightly recognises the fantastic work that our nhs workers like nurses, midwives and paramedics do, whilst also being affordable for the taxpayer. we will have more details on the deal which covers all staff in nhs england apart from doctors who are on a different contract. also tonight. in eastern ukraine, a special report on the fighters in the trenches of bakhmut, trying to resist the russian advance. the russians are only 500 metres away. that is automatic fire you can hear. along this line is grenade fire, automatic fire and tank fire. the social media app tiktok owned by a chinese company is to be banned from uk government devices for security reasons. scientists identify a gene variant known to increase the risk of brea
between the brothers over what will happen to james s character lorcan after their mother s death and as the first actor with down s syndrome to win an oscar, he hopes the world of the big screen will become more open to storylines which involve disability. it s really down to the actors themselves, really, but i think we should be included because it doesn t matter what disabilities you have, as long as you can act, that is the main thing. what is crucial for representation is not making the disability the main event. after the glitz and glamour of the awards, james said the next stop is to bring the oscar home to his drama group in belfast. they hope their next project will be a feature length film and believe it was northern ireland s characteristic dark humour which helped win over the academy judges and bring a bit of red carpet prestige back home. emma vardy, bbc news, belfast. time for a look at the weather. here s ben rich. good evening. northern ireland had its warme
tonight after arriving back in ireland from los angeles. emma vardy has more. sorry about your mother. set on a farm in rural northern ireland, an irish goodbye tells the story of an estranged family brought back together by loss. i told you, i m staying down here looking after the farm. i m not getting stuck here for the rest of my life. mother and you! cheering the big success achieved by this small cast and crew has not only brought pride for northern ireland s film industry but been life changing forjames martin who worked in a belfast starbucks while taking on acting jobs, and celebrated tonight with his father. just to be at home to see my family and friends, it s really good. for us, myself and my co writer, tom, my co director, we wanted to create a character that was well rounded. the film deals with tensions
filmmaker who worked on the new, black the killing of breonna taylor, and. others also, joanne porter, who is an award winning filmmaker in her own right. she s held titles like john lewis, good trouble, bobby kennedy for president, and gideon s army, to name of. you thank you to you both for being with us. we will just let you, know we are following the situation in windsor. so, in case i have to interrupt us. but, i have to have this conversation with. you so, but let me start with you. many people don t know the story of wireless jackson senior, or the specific racist history of mississippi. how did you decide to come until the specific story? well, i was brought on first of all, thank you for having us on. i was brought on to this project by my co-director, brad liechtenstein, who had started this film a bunch of years ago, through his relationship with congressman john lewis. and, their discussion about the till act.