do you work in education do you have children in school? are you worried how this will affect their studies and wellbeing? let me know by getting in touch with your comments and questions on twitter @annitabbc and use the hashtag bbc your questions. millions of people in the us prepare to head to the polls and vote in the midterm elections. new research suggests over half of young people between 11 18 are navigating a world outside of school that is increasingly isolated and home based. and the purr fect home? how one family turned their house into a cat rescue centre. thank you forjoining us at the bbc news channel this morning. new allegations of bullying have been made against the government minister sir gavin williamson claims which he denies. he s already facing two investigations a conservative party one and a parliamentary one after sending abusive text messages to the former chief whip, wendy morton. sir gavin williamson is currently minister without portfolio
more than 20 thousand nhs ambulance workers will take part in another strike over pay, manning picket lines across much of england and wales. former employees of the welsh rugby union have accused the organisation of having a toxic culture of sexism. everton have sacked manager, frank lampard, after less than a year in charge. their defeat at west ham on saturday was everton s ninth loss in 12 league games. and, meet the uk s youngest member of mensa. four year old teddy taught himself to read when he was just two, and can count to 100 in seven languages including mandarin. the prime minister has asked his independent ethics adviser, to examine how the conservative party chairman and former chancellor, nadhim zahawi, settled a multi million pound tax dispute. rishi sunak says there are questions that needed answers. mr zahawi says his error was careless but not deliberate, and his advisers say he doesn t intend to resign. labour however warns he needs to come clean and
there will be a lot of cloud around and we could have some rain around from time to time. condition should improve in the afternoon. we have got some heavier rain affecting the south west of england. through the day rain becomes more patchy and places they become drier. across other parts of the uk, plenty of sunshine, just a few showers in the north west of scotland. it will feel quite pleasant in the sunshine, temperatures hello, this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines: large parts of britain s rail network grind to a halt as 50,000 thousand workers stage a walkout in the biggest rail strike so far. prime minister liz truss has arrived in birmingham for the conservative annual conference she has admitted that there has been disruption in the uk economy following the mini budget. the ukrainian military says it has regained control of the strategic eastern town of lyman in the donetsk region from russian troops just a day after moscow annexed the area. millions o
on brazil s streets. russia says it will veto any un security council resolution condemning its self styled referendums in occupied regions of ukraine. the us intends to bring a draft resolution to a vote in the coming days. earlier, the us secretary of state antony blinken said the west would never acknowledge what he called bogus referendums. moscow claims almost total support in the vote onjoining russia. our russia editor, steve rosenberg, considers what these votes will mean and how that will affect (tx next) the russia ukraine conflict. first, i want to stress the key point here that these so called referendums were not real referendums, they were hastily arranged, kremlin created, kremlin controlled events designed to pave the way to russian annexation of huge swathes of ukrainian territory. we may well see this happen later this week. i expect at some point this week, russia will come out and say, right, this land is now ours, even in the absence of international