society to do that. are you getting the right workplace support while going through fertility treatment? more than 50,000 women go through the process every year, but many don t feel comfortable telling their boss. we ask what are your rights? laying it all on the table. we hearfrom ronnie 0 sullivan on how he overcame addiction and anxiety to climb to the top in snooker. friends together the moment kevin sinfield carried former team mate rob burrow who has motor neurone disease over the marathon finish line in leeds. some scattered showers this morning across the far north west of the uk, some rain the south east as well, but then if day of sunny spells. a few scattered showers but not feeling as warm as it stood through the weekend. all the details throughout this morning s programme. good morning. it s monday 15th of may. senior doctors in england will start voting today on whether to strike in a continuing dispute over pay in the health service. their union, the
for their lowest paid workers. rmt members who work for the 1a train operating companies are still due to go on strike, but this vote todayis due to go on strike, but this vote today is being seen as a breakthrough. we will have more of that on the news channel and the bbc news at six. time for a look at the weather. here s ben rich. good afternoon, today is the spring equinox, the beginning of the astronomical spring. and certainly, we have been feeling the days getting longer. the sunrise this morning in the east of england was just before six o clock in the sun won t set in parts of northern ireland until nearly quarter to seven this evening. but you may not get to see too many sunrises and sunsets this weekend because the jet stream, high up in the atmosphere, is blowing strongly across the atlantic feeding what is essentially a conveyor belt of weather systems in our direction. it will often be cloudy and there will be quite a lot of rain. this is the rain we expect to a
the financial markets react to the emergency takeover of switzerland s second biggest bank. in 20 years as the us led coalition invaded iraq to topple saddam hussein, we take a look at the legacy. the un secretary general antonio guterres has hailed a major new report on climate change as a survival guide for humanity . climate scientists from intergovernmental panel on climate change said clean energy and technology can be exploited to avoid the growing climate disaster. but they also warned a key global temperature goal will probably be missed. they say the world is expected to warm above one point five degrees centigrade by the early 2030s. secretary general antonio guterres has been speaking at the launch of the ipcc report and said everyone needs to work together quickly to achieve the climate change goals.. today i am presenting a plan to supercharge efforts. it starts with parties immediately hitting the fast forward button on the net zero deadlines to get to global z
fredricka reynolds used to do all the flowers for the weddings, but in an instant, that key part of her business was snatched away. they rang me on the thursday before the asylum seekers came on the monday, and cancelled all my weddings for the foreseeable. that s a huge amount of work and income to me. and she told me it s notjust the loss of thousands of pounds. me and my boys used to go swimming every saturday there. i ve got two little ones and every time we drive past there, they want to go swimming and, unfortunately, that s closed now. because of the small boats crossing the channel, the number of asylum seekers in hotels has gone from 3,000 to 51,000 in just three years. it s the government policy that almost no one is in favour of not even the government and it s costing the taxpayer £6 million a day. daniel sandford, bbc news, kegworth. more than 100 metropolitan police officers, who are being investigated for domestic abuse or sexual misconduct, are being allo
almost a0 people are dead after a passenger train and a freight train collide head on. and the singer ed sheeran opens up about using music to cope with depression last year after his pregnant wife was diagnosed with a tumour. and coming up on the bbc news channel: the long awaited disciplinary hearing following azeem rafiq s allegations of racism in yorkshire cricket club has begun in london. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. fresh questions have been raised about the judgement of the former health secretary matt hancock during the covid pandemic after a collection of his whatsapp messages were released. the messages, dating back to april 2020, published by the daily telegraph, cover issues such as care homes, schools and testing. in one of the most serious allegations the paper claims the messages show mr hancock ignored advice from senior medical officers to test everyone going into care homes in england, something he strongly denies. here s our political ed