tonight with the context, anand menon, director of the thinktank, the uk in a changing europe and the former spokesperson for the republican national committee doug heye welcome to the programme. around a million health workers in england have been offered a new pay deal today, which could bring to an end months of damaging strikes in the nhs. the unions at the negotation, represent a wide variety of health staff from nurses, paramedics, and midwives, to emergency call handlers and cleaners. the deal now on the table comes in two parts. first a one off payment for the 22/23 financial year that the government will pay within weeks which rises from 1,600 pounds 1,900 dollars for the lowest paid, to around £3,700 for senior managers. and on top of that there s a 5% pay rise for next year. most of the unions involved in the talks says they will recommend their members accept the offer. here s the prime minister. we ve got a great plan in place to make improvements and yo
i have always said nala saved teddy s life and that is how i wanted to think about it. and, new official figures show price rises slowed in the uk for a third month in a row but inflation remains near a ao year high. good morning and welcome to bbc news. first, some breaking news this morning, as two teenagers have been charged with the murder of brianna ghey. this morning cheshire police confirmed two is year olds, a girl from warrington and the boy from leigh, were charged. the 16 year old transgender school pupil was stabbed to death at a village park in cheshire, on saturday. our correspondent yunus muller is in warrington for us this morning. we warrington for us this morning. hope to cross to hi he we hope to cross to him any moment. he is able to join us we hope to cross to him any moment. he is able tojoin us now. good morning to you. bring us up to date, first of all, with the latest news. cheshire police had arrested two teenagers on suspicion of the murder of br
civil servants. meanwhile, separate data from the bank of england shows british lenders reported a sharp increase in the rate at which households and businesses defaulted on loans such as mortgages. the chancellor said the economic outlook was still brighter than expected. let s bring in the chief economist at kpmg. the uk economy remains weaker than any other country in the g7. we still have twin drives of high inflation and rising interest rates. how resilient do the you think the uk economy is? the latest data has been think the uk economy is? the latest data has been more think the uk economy is? the latest data has been more positive - think the uk economy is? the latest data has been more positive than i data has been more positive than what we feared late last year so it seems like the overall economy is more resilient and the majority of the weakness that we saw more recently is related to strikes rather than any fundamental weakness of the economy but obviously w
this man does the sums that tell the government how much money they have to spend. but why do they sometimes get it wrong? we ll ask the boss of indepent organisation the obr, richard hughes. it s michael gove s job to make sure the chance of a good life is spread fairly across the land, but can he level the country up when living standards are going down? labour s lucy powell has big plans for the bbc what s the problem she s trying to fix? and remember this act of courage? marina ovsyannikova famously interrupted live tv in russia to protest against the war in ukraine. she ll tell us about her astonishing escape. translation: i was thinking it was better for me translation: i was thinking it was better for me to translation: i was thinking it was better for me to go translation: i was thinking it was better for me to go back translation: i was thinking it was better for me to go back to - translation: i was thinking it was better for me to go back to russia, | bet
hello and welcome. let s return to the last minute unexpected interview that elon musk the boss of twitter and ceo of tesla has been doing with the bbc s james clayton. this came about after the bbc objected to a new tag describing it as government funded media on its main twitter account. james began by asking him why he decided to do this interview. there is a lot going on, so i thought this might be a good opportunity to answer some questions and. you know, i guess maybe get some feedback, too. what should we be doing different? i know the bbc for example is not thrilled about being labelled state funded media. it has viciously objected to that term, do you want to respond to it? i wanted to be as truthful and accurate as possible. i think we are adjusting the label to be publicly funded, which i think is perhaps not too objectionable. we are trying to be accurate. too objectionable. we are trying to be accurate- too objectionable. we are trying to be accurate. publ