And the series. Euro 2017 strictly come dancing finalists. A Record Number of people tuned in to watch the strictly final last night well discuss who waltzed away with the glitterball. And all the weekend weather. Quite the next day, some areas called with some fog. Further west, the next day, some areas called with some fog. Furtherwest, rain the next day, some areas called with some fog. Further west, rain moving in. Some areas are cool. Good morning. First, our main story. Every worker aged 18 or over will begin saving into a workplace pension unless they opt out. Thats under government plans being unveiled today. At the moment, employers must enrol staff aged 22 and over into a pension plan if they earn more than £10,000 a year. Ministers say they want to reduce the minimum age to 18 a move that could affect around 900,000 young people. But the changes wont kick in until the mid 2020s, as our Business Correspondent joe lynam reports. Olly browning is 21 and, like many young people
Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11 this morning. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the Hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. The Health Secretary, jeremy hunt, says its completely unacceptable that some patients are waiting up to 13 hours in a e. In an Exclusive Bbc interview, he paid tribute to the hard work of staff, but said the problems of high demand were not unique to the nhs in england. Our Health Editor hugh pym has more. Nhs england figures this winter show the worst waiting time performance in a e units since records began more than a decade ago. Jeremy hunt paid tribute to the work of staff, but said that the problems of high Patient Demand were not unique to the nhs and all leading Health Systems were grappling with the same challenge. He said there was no Silver Bullet. I think its wrong to suggest to people that these profound challenges such as we
To balance the books. Expect action when Philip Hammond unveils the contents of the Famous Red Briefcase next wednesday. It has been a big day in Northern Ireland, results being declared in the Northern Ireland Assembly Election. These were pictures from earlier, 7a seats declared not long ago, sinn fein and the dup polling strongly. One developing piece of news, as a result of his party not looking like it will do so well, the Ulster Unionist Party debt mike nesbitt has announced that he will resign leader. He felt he had to ta ke resign leader. He felt he had to take responsibility for the rejection of his partys message and what had happened. The election was called after sinn fein withdrew from the Power Sharing Executive in january. That is all from me, were now going tojoin january. That is all from me, were now going to join a special Election Programme presented by my colleagues. They have reporters at every cou nt colleagues. They have reporters at every count centre across No
Heart. I will pray for you and your families, and i ask each one of you please to remember to pray for me and if any of you are not believer, i ask you to wish me well. [ applause ] god bless you all. Thank you. [ cheers and applause ] pope francis concluding his remarks to the staff assembled here, the u. N. Staff and there you see him shaking the hand of secretary general of the u. N. , ban kimoon. As he has said many times during his speeches, he has said pray for me. I want to go back out to our correspondent john for let outside the United Nation. John, really a crowd pleasing speech. He started out by just making everyone laugh. Well, hes a funny guy. He has a sense of humor, and its worth noting that these town hall events happen quite a lot. The staff get very, very excited to meet people who represent the u. N. Around world. Normally, im talking about rock stars and actors. You think of bono, you think of george clooney. On this occasion, we have a brand new rock star in the f
Live coverage of congress on tv, the radio, and online at cspan. Org. Members of the British Youth Parliament aged 11 to 18 gathered in the houses of parliament for their annual debate. They debated five topics that would be considered further national debate. Talk about making transportation more affordable and accessible. It is about 30 minutes. Colleagues, the Youth Parliament will now consider the third motion of the day in the last of our morning session. Make public transport cheaper, better, and accessible for all. To move the motion, i call from the northwest of england, rose. [applause] given the chance, would you help these young people . Now, you have that chance. Four years ago, the committee carried out a report on transport. Four weeks ago, 108,000 young wanted us to campaign on this issue again. If an illness were diagnosed, would you stop treatment today . Lets use the evidence to create a reform for a fresh and reinvented campaign. Use the same for reforms such as a Na