nursing leaders in england have made a direct appeal to rishi sunak, saying an improved pay offer could be enough to stop strikes, scheduled for monday and tuesday. now it s time for the new space race. 50 years ago, astronauts would regularly go to the moon. back then, many thought it wouldn t be long before people lived there. now, finally, that could be happening. we re notjust settling for doing the same old, same old. we want to push further. and rocket launches are now commonplace, sending up spacecraft for the benefit of life on earth. space is an integral part of society. our way of working only functions with satellites for telecom, for navigation, for earth observation, for weather forecasting, for many things. so we need these satellites for our daily life. the country that first sent a person into space is crashing back to earth because of its war in ukraine. if russia doesn t partner up with another nation or field its own space station, which given the current c
to implement her tax cutting agenda. police investigating the disappearance of nicola bulley in lancashire say they ve spoken to a woman they d described as a key witness. ms bulley was last seen nine days ago. nursing leaders in england have made a direct appeal to rishi sunak, saying an improved pay offer could be enough to stop strikes, scheduled for monday and tuesday. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for click. this week. as we re working towards the metaverse, we re at interpol to see how they re planning to keep it safe. we look at new software that s helping doctors perform delicate brain surgery. lara s throwing her weight around again. watch it! i ve got super strength. yes, that s definitely more powerful. and get ready to feel old. i never thought in my 205 i d be romanticising technology from when i was 13. over the last 20 or so years, we ve seen how difficult the internet and the web has been to police. it s bigger than any one country, and you can base
iranian state television says that the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has pardoned a large number of prisoners linked to protests. the state broadcaster says that ayatollah khamenei was responding to a proposal by the head of the judiciary. iranian media outlets say that the letter from the judiciary chief said that a number of people, especially the young, had committed wrongful actions and crimes because of incitement and propaganda by the enemy. our middle east analyst sebastian usher gave us this update. this is a pardon that comes on the eve of the anniversary of the 1979 islamic revolution, so there are pardons quite regularly for that. what we don t know, obviously the numbers. we don t know when or how this will happen. we do know the way that it s written says it s an answer to an appeal, a letter from the head of the judiciary who essentially frames it as being many people who went out to protest, particularly the young, were misled, by foreign agents, propag
saying an improved pay offer could be enough to stop strikes, scheduled for monday and tuesday. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for how to heal the nhs. we ve been almost 12 hours in an ambulance. there were people sitting on the floor, people on trolleys everywhere. it was just horrendous. record waits in a&e, trolleys stacked up along busy corridors, ambulance crews forced to queue outside for hours with their patients. it does get tricky when you see a time come on the call and it s hours ago and you are thinking, oh, gosh, what are you going to turn up to? and they are in a bad state. the health service in every corner of the uk has been battling through its worst winter in a generation. we are running two and three times above our capacity continually, and often more than that. we ve had crises in the nhs before, but doctors say nothing like this. this is undoubtedly a crisis, and it s undoubtedly a national scandal. we simply haven t seen the action that was nec
In history to win back to back european titles. Portugal wins eurovision for the first time, as luciejones delivers the uks best performance for six years. We will discuss that a little later. And helen has the weather. An optimistic weather picture. Still some to clear in the east. Plenty of sunshine coming through with a scattering of showers into the afternoon. Some good spells of dry and sunny weather, strong sunshine in between. I what have more the us and around 15 minutes if you can join me. We will do. Good morning. First, our main story. Most of the Health Organisations in england and scotland that were affected by a Global Cyber Attack are back up and running, but some patients face continued disruption with six trusts in england still affected. Security experts are Warning Workers to protect their devices, in case of a new wave of attacks, as our correspondent Richard Galpin reports. This unprecedented Global Cyber Attack hit the nhs hardest, leading to cancellations and del