service was launched right here on this spot. performers and orchestra would have been here. and a huge camera here! she sings. and what viewers saw was this. this is adele dixon performing with the bbc television 0rchestra. she is singing a song called television, which was written especially for the opening night of. ..television. it was broadcast to viewers across london and the home counties through the transmitter on alexandra palace, marking the beginning of what was then referred to as high definition television. yeah, don t laugh. before that, television was just an odd fuzzy experiment to small selected audiences. and behind the scenes there was a bit of a battle going on. see, the bbc had actually opened up two studios at alexandra palace. this, studio b was a mechanical system which was made byjohn logie baird and it produced an image like this. meanwhile, in studio a, they were trialling an electrical system by emi and what they would do is they would alternate st
on the impact of somalia s drought, the worst in a0 years, with people walking for days in search of life saving help. we are headed for a catastrophe, this serious, really going to get worse. and private screenings of a film starring british and pakistani stars are being auctioned to raise funds forflood victims in pakistan. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in the uk, where the new finance ministerjeremy hunt has been insisting the prime minister liz truss is in charge. 48 hours into thejob, he has the herculean task of restoring market confidence in her economic plans. he s made clear he will be looking at government spending as well as the planned tax cuts. mr hunt held talks with the prime minister on sunday. but her position did not appear secure three conservative members of parliament have publicly called for her to resign. here s our political correspondent ben wright. behind the gates of the prime minister s coun
it s thursday, the 6th of october. our main story. hundreds of thousands of nurses across the uk are being asked if they re willing to walk out over pay. the royal college of nursing is balloting its members for strike action for the first time in the union s 106 year history. the rcn wants a payrise of 5% above inflation, but no uk nation has offered close to that. our correspondent, caroline davies, has more. through the darkest days of the pandemic, the uk s nurses were some of the nation s heroes. now, they re being balloted to strike over pay. my love for it was to make a difference in people s lives. and that s why i am here. but then, sometimes when i look at it, it s like, is it really worth it? victoria is a mental health nurse in an nhs trust. after she came back from maternity leave, she went part time and receives universal credit because she says her pay wouldn t cover the cost of childcare if she worked full time. even now, she struggles. sometimes you end up ha
but at what cost? with soaring energy bills it is getting more expensive to heat pools like this one, so they may have to close for good. good morning from wimbledon where there is some disappointment after andy murray and emma raducanu both went out on centre court. but british number one cameron norrie went through to round three. good morning. early rain in eastern parts of northern ireland and scotland which will become confined to the north east of scotland. for the rest of us, sunshine and showers, some thundery. details later in the programme. good morning. it s thursday, 30thjune. our main story. the uk will provide an additional £1 billion in military aid for ukraine, after president zelensky urged nato leaders to do more to help the country s war effort. at the nato summit in madrid, the military alliance branded russia the biggest direct threat to western security. our security correspondent frank gardner has more. ukrainian troops on salisbury plain, part of an e
there are reports of house to house fighting in the city. as the israeli bombardment of gaza continues, the united nations says half the population of the territory are starving and nine out of ten can t eat every day. it comes as the world health organization holds a special session on the health situation in the occupied palestinian territories we will hear from our correspondent on that later this hour. but first, our middle east correspondent yolande knell has the latest. the misery of life under canvas. four in five gazans have now fled their homes and away from the front lines, they re still fighting to survive, with severe shortages of food and drinking water. aid agencies say that they re struggling to deliver the basics even close to the egypt border where supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment is the only lifeline for people, and we re simply not able to get the access that we need to get through. for the past four or five, six days, aid agencies such as