another day of strikes more than 1,000 ambulance staff in wales walk out in a dispute over pay and conditions. meanwhile in england, nurses continue their strike action for a second day in a row. new zealand s prime minister jacinda ardern makes a surprise announcement saying she ll stand down in less than three weeks time. a day of national strikes begins in france over plans to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64. king charles asks for millions of pounds in profits from the crown estate to be used for the wider public good rather than for the royal family. the government has released details of projects which will benefit from its levelling up fund, which is intended to spread economic growth more widely across the uk. in all, £2.1 billion will be spent on regeneration projects. they span more than a hundred areas across the country. some of the biggest winners include a new eden project at morecambe bay which gets £50 million. there s 50 million pounds for
the father of an aristocrat who s gone missing with her newborn baby and her partner appeals for her to get in touch with the police. shock in new zealand as the prime ministerjacinda ardern unexpectedly stands down she says she doesn t have enough left in the tank. and the harrowing anti war epic all quiet on the western front leads the nominations for this year s bafta film awards. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news. levelling up has been one of the government s key policies the idea of spreading public money more evenly across the uk. well, today ministers have announced more than £2 billion worth of projects acoss the country. they say the north of england and wales will do best, per head of population. but labour claim the system for allocating money is unfair. here s our political correspondent david wallace lockhart blackpool, one area that was a winner in today s levelling up allocation announcement, with £40 million for a new education campus. levelli
From a crucial scottish by election. What will it tell us about the prospects for labour and the snp . Stand by your Election Night coverage starts here. Party strategists at labour and the snp will be burning the midnight oil, working what todays crunch vote in scotland tells them about the next General Election. Nicks there and has read the runes. Both horses in this two horse race agree on the winner labour. Now a new race is under way Expectation Management. Snp and labour mps are with us to discuss whether labour is indeed about to carry this off. Also tonight, 51 people are killed in a strike that hit a cafe in kharkiv, while president zelensky meets european leaders gathered in spain. Are ukraines western allies still committed to the fight . We must not allow putin to destabilise any other part of the world and our partners in order to ruin europes power. We speak to the exiled Opposition Leader of belarus. And americas greens agonise about Mining Lithium for car batteries. Is
situation room live from tel aviv. i will see you tomorrow at noon eastern. happening now, breaking news. hamas releases 11 more civilian hostages from gaza on this, the first day of a temporary truce. back in israel where hospitals are preparing to treat them after more than seven weeks in captivity. the pause of hostilities has gotten. right now about this very fragile agreement. also tonight, my special interview with the uncle of a 13-year-old hostage who was freed on saturday without, repeat without, her mother despite demands from israeli officials. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in tel aviv israel, and you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. the breaking news this hour, moments ago israeli hostages began arriving at the hospitals here in tel aviv, just hours after hamas released 11 more civilians from gaza. with a trace of extension now in effect, we expect additional captives to come home in
Of parliament in westminster. Plans to make britain an independent, sovereign nation will be published this morning just one day after theresa may started the process of brexit. The great repeal bill will outline how the government plans to repatriate more than a0 years worth of powers from the European Union and convert thousands of eu rules into british law. Yesterday, theresa may described britains departure from the eu as an historic moment from which there can be no turning back. Eleanor garnier reports. Cometh the hour, cometh the moment, in westminster, belfast, edinburgh and cardiff the exact moment the uk took a new and different course. This is an historic moment from which there is no turning back. The letter, hand delivered by our man in brussels, telling the eu we are on our way out. Written in a deliberately conciliatory tone. But a hint, too, of the steel in mrs mays stance. No overt threat to walk away, but a serious warning, as she wrote a failure to reach an agreement