Around 100 people are rescued by the fire service from floods in the midlands with warnings of more rain on the way. The mother of a 10 Year Old Girl, who died after contracting an infection in a cancer ward in glasgow, claims there was a cover up over her death. Sleeping on the streets, in parks and on peoples sofas a Charity Warns that more than 20 thousand young people are at risk of homelessness this christmas. And eastenders stars take on strictly for tonights children in need. Labour has unveiled plans to give every home across the uk free broadband in the next decade by partly nationalising bt. The shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, said his partys proposals were visionary, and the 20 billion pound cost of doing it would be paid for partly by introducing a tax on tech giants. The Prime Minister called it a crackpot scheme. Bts shareprice fell after the announcement and the companys boss, philip jansen, said labour had under estimated the price of its pledge. Heres our political
Recorded for the first time. Well talk to kai gunner and Brooke Morgan about what it was like to be a teenager and homeless. And ask the politicians what their parties plan to do tackle the problem. Leaders of six councils across Northern England have called for a massive increase in government funding to deal with widespread flooding, saying theres likely to be lasting damage to vital infrastructure including power plants, roads and bridges. In our film today, weve been to meet People Living in South Yorkshire. If the politicians got off their backsides and helped these younguns with me, wed get further. Theres too much of this and not enough work. Thats my feeling. And comedian al murray has told this programme his nephew desperately needs a stem cell match within weeks. He is critically ill. There is a 50 50 chance of him surviving this, basically. And without the transplant there is no cure. How soon would he have to have it . Before christmas. This has got to happen kind of right
Also tonight around 100 people are rescued from floods in the midlands with more flood warnings and rain on the way. The mother of a ten Year Old Girl who died after contracting an infection in a cancer ward in glasgow claims there was a cover up over her death. Sleeping on the streets, in parks, on peoples sofas a Charity Warns that more than 20,000 young people are at risk of homelessness this christmas. And eastenders stars take on strictly for tonights children in need. And coming up on bbc news. More medals for Great Britain on the final day of the world para athletics championship in dubai as they finished third in the medal table. Good evening. Labour has unveiled plans to give every home across the uk free broadband in the next decade by partly nationalising bt. The shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, said his partys proposals were visionary and the £20 billion cost of doing it would be paid for by introducing a tax on tech giants. The Prime Minister called it a crackpot scheme
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