andm we ll be hearing all about the appeal and we ll be hearing all about the appeal to recruit more bell ringers, in time for the king s coronation. good morning and welcome to bbc news. health secretary steve barclay will meet members of the royal college of nursing today after the union announced it would suspend a planned strike in england next week to enter talks on pay with the government. in a joint statement, both the college and the department of health and social care said they would begin intensive talks on pay, terms and conditions and producitivity enhancing reforms. government proposals for next year s public sector pay are also being drawn up. the rcn had originally asked for a pay rise of 5% above inflation. it has since said it would be willing to meet the government half way. next week s walk out in england, from the first to the third of march, was set to be the biggest strike so far of this winter s dispute, with half of front line services affect
archie battersbee s parents apply to the european court of human rights to try to postpone the removal of his life support, which was due to begin today. a review has found former met police chief, dame cressida dick, may have breached professional standards during an investigation into the murder of the private detective daniel morgan. the delivery of ballots for the conservative leadership election is delayed, after the security agency gchq warned that cyber hackers could change people s votes. another hosepipe ban is on the way, after all the hot dry weather more than a million people will be affected in kent and sussex. hello, good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. foreign ministers from the g7 have said there is nojustification for what they called china s aggressive military drills in the taiwan strait. the exercises which are taking place over the next four days from tomorrow are in response to a visit to taiwan by the speaker of the us house of representatives
These pictures show the moment the quake struck the city of marrakesh late on friday, prompting people to sprint for the streets. The city is reporting a lower death toll than other areas, but considerable damage to buildings. Thousands of moroccans have spent a second Night Sleeping outside on the streets, fearing aftershocks. Some have been describing their fears and sense of loss. Translation i returned to my house and noticed many cracks in the walls. I cannot sleep there. Im asking the authorities to help me and bring in an expert to assess whether its possible for me to return to the house or not. Look where all these people are sleeping. Theres no help for us. 0ur houses have been cracked, others destroyed, like my daughters house, which has collapsed. We are in a chaotic state. Its painful to enter the ancient city and witness the collapsed homes and see people in great suffering. Its a painful experience when this happens to your brother or sister. I its really painful. Live n
10,000 dead and hundreds of thousands displaced, is it time for ukraines leaders to acknowledge they are in a war they cannot win . Geopolitics, economics, and public sentiment dont seem to be working in kievs favour. My guest was ukraines Prime Minister until a year ago. Arseniy yatsenyuk described his own premiership as a kamikaze mission. So how does his nation avoid Self Destruction . Arseniy yatsenyuk, welcome to hardtalk. Thanks for having me, stephen. Seems ukraines crisis has lurched into a new level of urgency in recent days with a blockade, which has been imposed by people who are actually nominally supportive of ukraines government, a blockade which is restricting all trade between the Eastern Breakaway regions and the rest of the country. Why is this happening . The reason is very clear. Under the minsk deal russians had to launch a full fledged ceasefire on the ground, to pull back its forces, and to pave the way for the political solution. Whats really happening . They ar
10,000 dead and hundreds of thousands displaced, is it time for ukraines leaders to acknowledge they are in a war they cannot win . Geopolitics, economics, and public sentiment dont seem to be working in kievs favour. My guest was ukraines Prime Minister until a year ago. Arseniy yatsenyuk described his own premiership as a kamikaze mission. So how does his nation avoid Self Destruction . Arseniy yatsenyuk, welcome to hardtalk. Thanks for having me, stephen. Seems ukraines crisis has lurched into a new level of urgency in recent days with a blockade, which has been imposed by people who are actually nominally supportive of ukraines government, a blockade which is restricting all trade between the Eastern Breakaway regions and the rest of the country. Why is this happening . The reason is very clear. Under the minsk deal russians had to launch a full fledged ceasefire on the ground, to pull back its forces, and to pave the way for the political solution. Whats really happening . They ar