hello. we start in the uk, where sir keir starmer has pledged to reduce the number of people legally migrating to the country, if labour win the general election. he plans to introduce new laws to train british workers to plug skills gaps in thejob market and strengthen anti exploitation laws. meanwhile, the conservatives have promised to build 100 new gp surgeries in england and boost the number of available appointments if they win the election. and in the coming hours john swinney, leader of the scottish national party, will formally launch the party s campaign, where he ll argue independence offers the country a better future . here is our political correspondent ione wells. immigration is a sticky issue in this campaign and both major parties say they want to control it. labour says it would train more uk workers to fill skills shortages and it says firms that pay exploitative wages would be banned from hiring foreign workers. but labour have not put a figure on how muc
resigned, following a fallout with the scottish greens, and there has also been an ongoing police investigation into the snp shall as funding and finances, but this afternoon, john swinney will want the focus to be on what he perceives to be his party s positive record and his priorities ahead of this general election. find and his priorities ahead of this general election. general election. and we are exoecting general election. and we are expecting that general election. and we are expecting that snp - general election. and we are expecting that snp launch i general election. and we are expecting that snp launch in j general election. and we are - expecting that snp launch in about an hour or so. let s get some of the day s other news now. ukrainie s president has accused china of prolonging the war in his country by supporting russia. volodymyr zelensky said beijing was not only refusing to take part in a planned summit in switzerland later this month, but was trying to preven
believe their war in ukraine is a noble cause. one they are ready to die for. but after ten months of fighting, not all the soldiers think that. sergei has agreed to tell me about his son, stas, an army officer. we have changed their names to protect their identities. deployed to ukraine, his son refused to fight. he told me it was a difficult decision for him to take, i told him, better to take it. this is not our war. it s not a war of liberation. i will put that in writing, that i refuse to fight, he said. he and several others who refused had their guns taken off them and were put under armed guard. sergei travelled to the front line in ukraine to try to secure his son s release. eventually, stas was sent back to russia, and revealed the full drama of his detention