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in the suffering of his wife, meghan. there s widespread condemnation of the storming of brazil s congress by supporters of former president, jair bolsonaro. and history is about to be made here in cornwall, when later this evening the uk will be launching a rocket to send satellites up into space. and coming up on the bbc news channel, roberto martinez has been appointed as the new manager of portugal. the former everton boss left his role with belgium after the world cup. good afternoon and welcome to the news at 1:00pm. officials from rail, health and teaching unions, are taking part in separate talks with ministers to try to avert more industrial action. there has been no breakthrough so far. the unite union which represents workers across several sectors of the economy says the government has missed yet another opportunity to put this right, and the meeting was an insult to his members . strikes in the health service next week involving unite are now likely to go ahea
and coming up at 3:30, operation relocation, looks behind the scenes of one of the uk s biggest hospital s transitions from old to new. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. nurses are likely to take their first ever national strike action according to their union. the royal college of nursing is still counting ballot papers returned by its 300,000 members, but it says those counted so far suggest support for strike action possibly before christmas. the rcn wants a 5% pay increase above the rate of inflation. nurses working in accident and emergency and critical care would be exempted from striking to maintain services. the government said nurses should carefully consider the impact on patients. and, as our health editor hugh pym reports, other health workers could also soon be staging industrial action. here s our health editor hugh pym. possible strike action is already looming of the nhs in scotland. members of two unions, including ambulance staff at the gmb, have v