is to close blast furnaces in port talbot with 3,000 jobs to go. the union plan to savejobs has failed. so what does it say more generally about the green transition? also in the programme. a walk out in northern ireland. no government, no funding, no pay rises. is the standoff over stormont now a constiutional crisis. a constiutional crisis? and is it the demand for cocaine europe that has turned ecuador into a war zone with the drug cartels? is there a future for steel making in the uk? and if there is then what sort of sector does it become. that very issue has been under discussion today between unions representing the steel workers of south wales and the bosses of the tata steel making company. no official word of what has been agreed but we understand tata steel is to close both blast furnaces at its port talbot works with the loss of up to 3,000 jobs. instead of blast furnaces, tata have a plan backed by the british government to invest in a new, greener, electric ar
we aren t. we haven t spoken for quite a while. um, no, not recently. health, teaching and rail unions are to hold talks with ministers today, to try to head off another wave of industrial action. businesses will find out later, exactly how much support they ll get with their energy bills. the amount of government help available is expected to more than halve from the spring, with firms facing rapidly rising costs. thousands of supporters of the far right former brazilian president, jair bolsonaro, have attacked government buildings in the capital. drama in the fa cup in what was one of the upsets of the weekend. how stevenage of league 2 knocked out aston villa in two madcap minutes in yesterday s third round tie. good morning. if you are just stepping out is a chilly start in the east. then we are in for a day of sunshine and showers. some will be heavy and thundery. it will be breezy. the outlook for the rest of the week remains unsettled. details later in the programme. g
commentator since the 1970s, michael goldfarb, actor turned journalist, foreign correspondent for pbs radio in the united states, now host of the podcast the first rough draft of history, steve richards began his career as a westminster correspondent just as margaret thatcher was ending hers. coincidental! his blog is called rock and rolls politics, his most recent book about the talented politicians who failed to make it to number ten. steve, we can leave the question unanswered, whoever that is. what do you make of the choice that tory mps have presented between the sunak and loose trust? in a have presented between the sunak and loose trust? . , ., . have presented between the sunak and loose trust? ., , ., . . loose trust? in a very erratic way, ou can loose trust? in a very erratic way, you can see loose trust? in a very erratic way, you can see attempts, loose trust? in a very erratic way, you can see attempts, chaotic- loose trust? in a very erratic way, you can s
while europe swelters, the eu is looking ahead to winter, and what to do if russia cuts off gas supplies completely. we need to save gas to fill our gas storages. to do so, we have to reduce our gas consumption. find storages. to do so, we have to reduce our gas consumption. and we will look at sri reduce our gas consumption. and we will look at sri lanka, reduce our gas consumption. and we will look at sri lanka, with reduce our gas consumption. and we will look at sri lanka, with the - will look at sri lanka, with the country has chosen a new president who may be just as unpopular as his predecessor. the next uk prime minister will be either rishi sunak, the former chancellor, or liz truss, the foreign secretary. we reached these two names after several elimination rounds voted by conservative mps. this was the moment we got the result. the numbers of votes cast for each candidate is as followed. penny mordaunt, 105. rishi sunak, 137. liz truss, 113. therefore, rishi
and drizzle around. as we go through the day, the winds will start to strengthen and we see rain pushing into northern ireland in western scotland. a mild day, 9 12 c. windy across western areas tomorrow evening, gusts of 40 15 mph, may be 70 mph gusts across north west scotland. a weather warning for that. the blustery and wet weather will sink south east into the first part of wednesday. it will try to clear but you can see another pulse of rain pushing in from the south west, and with that, the winds will once again strengthen. that takes us into wednesday night. this will be our stormy spell of weather. a very deep area of low pressure. gales are likely. that will cause some disruption. the wind is only slowly easing towards the end of the week. sophie. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m jane dougall. still significant gaps between men and women s prize money in some sports including football, but a bbc study finds the majority now offer parity at the top level. a decade