could the disabled children whose mums took the anti epilepsy drug valproate finally be set to receive compensation? a report out tomorrow will call on the government to make payments of £100,000 to those harmed by sodium valproate because some women were not told of the risks taking it could pose. we ll talk live to these two women mothers, between them, of seven children with physial and learning disabilities who have been fighting for compensation for 12 years. 12 years. also tonight. our own mark urban s despatch from ukraine. almost two years into the conflict soldiers are exhausted. will the government s new recruitment plan provide the numbers needed 7 we ll understand it would be a very long war. 0ur soldiers have been fighting for two years. they are tired and exhausted so we cannot win. also liz truss is back today launching a new tory group called popular conservatism what does she know about that? conservatives have not taken on the left wing extremists
20s but we saw 30 degrees in chertsey. i think we saw 30 as well in central london. that is going to lead to a pretty humid night to come. in fact, lead to a pretty humid night to come. infact, lows lead to a pretty humid night to come. in fact, lows for some into the high teens, perhaps 20 degrees in london first thing tomorrow morning. there will be a beautiful sunrise, some early morning sunshine but it won t last because a weather front will move in from the south west and this could quite literally raining on our parade for tomorrow. some heavy, thundery downpours are expected. it is not a guarantee and very hit and miss some of these showers but if you catch them, they could be quite intense. look at the bright greens and yellows, that is the intensity of the rainfall. a of rain, large hail and thunder as they quickly sweep north and east. into the afternoon, a bit fresher to the west, still the risk of some showers, still some heat potentially into east anglia with 29
be fresher but brighter. your full forecast here on breakfast. it s friday 30th june. our main story today. a formal pledge for thousands more doctors and nurses is being unveiled by the nhs in england. the 15 year plan is backed by more than £2 billion of government funding. there ll be a greater emphasis on apprenticeships, and five year medical degrees could be shortened by 12 months. but labour has accused the government of adopting its ideas, and said the move had come a decade too late. here s our health correspondent dominic hughes. does daniel represent the future of the nhs workforce? he s what s known as an apprentice operating department practitioner learning on the job about how to be a scrub nurse in an operating theatre. his apprenticeship at royal derby hospital is backed up by a university degree, and for daniel, it s the ideal foundation on which to build a career in the nhs. i train and practise within the trust itself, so i am able to work alongside othe
welcome to the programme. plenty of elections around the world this year. now know a bit more about what could be happening here in the uk. rishi sunak says the general election is likely to happen in the second half of this year . he didn t rule out it happening earlier but says his working assumption is later this year. take a listen. so, look, my working assumption is we ll have a general election in the second half of this year, and in the meantime, i ve got lots that i want to get on with. that means cutting people s taxes this saturday. that s a tax cut worth £450 for the average person in work. we can do that because we d halved inflation. i want to keep going, managing the economy well and cutting people s taxes, but i also want to keep attacking illegal migration. last year, we got the numbers down by a third, and now we need to get our rwanda schema through parliament, up and running, so we have a full deterrent. and that s how we are really going to solve this
hello, and welcome to a special edition of the travel show covered in ice, snow, and that special kind of magic, as much of the world prepares to celebrate christmas, and also the end of another year. we spent most of 2023 on the road, so it s a great opportunity to be at home to recharge and look back at some of our favourite winter adventures here on the programme. so without further ado, let s jump straight in and remember the time when ade headed to finnish lapland not to meet santa claus, but a rapper who s keeping his language alive with music. huskies howl. ade: finnish lapland is as close as it gets to a winter wonderland. more than one million tourists come here each year in search of the northern lights, santa, and his reindeer. the sami are the indigenous people who live in this part of the world from northern norway, sweden, finland, and the far north part of russia. there s around 6,000 samis left in this part of finland, and here, they re known as the inar