at the australian open but defending champion rafael nadal heads home after his dramatic second round exit. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 1am in ukraine where the government says it s suffered its biggest loss of the war, when the three principal figures in the interior ministry were killed after their helicopter crashed in kyiv. interior minister denys monastyrskiy died with his deputy, and the department s state secretary along with the crew when the aircraft came down in bad weather in brovary, a suburb of the capital. the crash set fire to a kindergarten. at least 1a people died, including one child. our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse sent this report from the scene and a warning, you may find some of his report distressing. sobbing even with the backdrop of war, it s been one of ukraine s bleakest days. in the mist of the morning, a helicopter came down next to a childre
days worth of operations planned in these theatres, our newest set of theatres here at the grafton way building, and we have nothing planned at all in terms of surgical activity today or tomorrow. and what normally happens here, what level of activity? normally we d be busy with orthopaedic or ear, nose and throat surgery. it s one of our busiest surgical hubs in the whole of the uclh campus. but not today. university college hospital in london gave us access to one of their surgical centres. over 2,000 patients across the trust will miss their operations and appointments. the boss has called on unions and the government to settle the dispute. disputes like this, industrial action of this scale, is hugely disruptive, so it s notjust the cancelling of patients and reorganising their care, it s everything that goes behind that. but it s also motivating our staff, retaining our staff, keeping the morale of our staff high. given where this dispute s got to, what s your message to the gove
it s affecting them. over 2000 patients will miss their operations and appointments. the boss has called on unions and the government to settle the dispute. disputes like this, industrial action of this scale, is hugely disruptive, so it s notjust the cancelling of the patients and reorganising their care, it is everything that goes behind that. it s also motivating our staff, retaining our staff, keeping the morale of our staff high. given where this dispute has got to, what s your message to the government? my message and that of many chief executives around the country is that this needs resolution. we cannot continue to go through periods of industrial action and the disruption it is causing to patients and our staff. back on the street, nurses defended their decision to strike. so i m out here to protest. we need a pay rise. we haven t had a pay rise in ten years in line with inflation, so we deserve better. every single day we are . completely over capacity. it s not a safe envir
gave us access to see how it s affecting them. over 2,000 patients will miss their operations and appointments. the boss has called on unions and the government to settle the dispute. disputes like this, industrial action of this scale, is hugely disruptive, so it s notjust the cancelling of the patients and reorganising their care, it is everything that goes behind that. it s also motivating our staff, retaining our staff, keeping the morale of our staff high. given where this dispute has got to, what s your message to the government? my message and that of many chief executives around the country is that this needs resolution. we cannot continue to go through periods of industrial action and the disruption it is causing to patients and our staff. back on the street, nurses defended their decision to strike. so i m out here to protest. we need a pay rise. we haven t had a pay rise in ten years in line with inflation,
at six tens of thousands of nurses go on strike again in their biggest day of action so far in england. they chant: claps don t pay the bills, claps don t pay the bills! strike action will intensify next month. ambulance workers will now walk out on the same day as nurses in england and wales, piling huge pressure on hospital bosses. my message, and that of many chief executives around the country, is that this needs resolution. we cannot continue to go through periods of industrial action, and the disruption caused to patients and to our staff. also on the programme tonight. another slight fall in inflation but food prices continue to soar. a