The man who used to be the Department For Educations most senior Civil Servant reckons he did. I was absolutely amazed to see that the decision made by the government was to halve the School Rebuilding programme down from 100 a year to 50 a year. The chancellor, of course, was at the time . Rishi sunak. So, what does the Prime Minister make of that . I think that is completely and utterly wrong. Actually, one of the first things i did as chancellor in my first Spending Review in 2020 was to announce a new ten year School Rebuilding programme for 500 schools. Now, that equates to about 50 schools a year that will be refurbished or rebuilt. And if you look at what weve been doing over the previous decade, thats completely in line with what weve always done. This Secondary School in County Durham was meant to open for the new term tomorrow, but it cant because of dangerous concrete. In both 2020 and 2021, the government promised 50 schools a year would be rebuilt. In 2019, the National Au
Hi everyone. Im Jessica Gene In Washington and we begin with Breaking News, oversees a Frantic Search And Rescue operation is underway weigh in northern iran. After a Helicopter Crash involving iranian president Ebrahim Raisi. Officials say they have now detected the exact location of the crash site after hours of struggling to find it due to extreme fog and bad weather there that crash happening early this morning after the president and other officials attended a ceremony for the open putting of a new near the border with azure by john cnns Nic Robertson ies tracking all the latest developments from london and pentagon correspondent Oren Liebermann is here in washington with us with reaction from the us nic. Lets start first with you. And what were learning about this search the search has been hampered because theres dense fog and thats the reason its understood that the Helicopter Crash in the first place. Its raining. Ive been looking at video thats been posted on social media by
When a score of a00 had looked likely. In response, pakistan started brightly with an opening stand of 134 helped by some bad australian fielding. But the loss of set batters, including rizwan, threatened to tilt the contest in favour of australia again. This is the latest from bangalore. Pakistan now 297 8 in the 45th over. Weve arrived at the Semifinal Stage of the rugby world cup. England take on south africa tomorrow, but less than three hours to go now until new zealand play argentina. The all blacks are heavy favourites to reach their third final in the last four tournaments and avoid a repeat of their defeat at this stage four years ago. From the experience, you learn a lot, and it is clear weve got some outstanding leaders in the team. For the much all of them were there. And i know that that sort of loss is driving some of them. I know it is four years on, but you can still look back to that week and think about what you learned from it, and i guess make sure that, yeah, it do
In the southwestern province of balochistan on friday as people celebrated the birth of prophet muhammad. Police say at least 52 people were killed there, with another 50 injured. Police suspect it was a Suicide Attack targeting the religious gathering in mastung city. Earlier this month, at least 11 people, including a prominent muslim leader, were injured in an explosion in the same district. And dozens of people are trapped beneath a mosque near the city of peshawar. Live now to our correspondent saheer baloch in islamabad. This is of course an evolving situation. Two blasts in the country. Talk us through what we know so far. Country. Talk us through what we know so far know so far. Yes, so far we have confirmation know so far. Yes, so far we have confirmation that know so far. Yes, so far we have confirmation that the know so far. Yes, so far we have confirmation that the police know so far. Yes, so far we have | confirmation that the police chief of balochistan says that the blas