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Opportunity to build a better, brighter future. Well bring you the very latest from the campaign trail. Also in the next hour. The us speaker of the house of representatives announces that impeachment proceedings against President Trump will go ahead. The president has engaged an abuse of power in our National Security and jeopardising the integrity of our elections. Frances largest strike in years brings much of the country to a standstill workers are angry about planned Pension Reforms that would see them retiring later orfacing reduced pay outs. And two british pilots land back in the uk after flying around the world in a newly restored spitfire. Its 5 00, our top story. With one week to polling day, the Political Parties are beginning theirfinal push for votes. Boris johnson is promising to pass his brexit deal and to bring in a tax cutting budget within 100 days, if the conservatives win the election. Labour have outlined plans to recruit almost 20,000 extra teachers in england overfive years. Meanwhile, the liberal democrats have promised a £17bn research and development fund, and the snp have said there is only one week to stop brexit. Heres our Political Correspondent tom barton, and a warning that his report contains flash photography. They wont be able to vote for another few years, butJeremy Corbyn hopes to persuade their parents. You have your hand up. Why do you want to be Prime Minister . Promising to recruit 20,000 more teachers and to keep class sizes below 30. But also attacking the conservatives record in government. Elect the tories, you carry on with austerity, you carry on with increasing gaps between the richest and the poorest, you carry on with underfunded schools, oversized classes and increasing numbers of rough sleeping homelessness. We are very clear. We have a totally funded and costed manifesto. The only party that has in this election. And it will give real hope and opportunity to everyone in this country. Good morning. Good morning, philip. Good morning, holly. 0n the this morning sofa, borisjohnson hoping his message on brexit will convince a daytime tv audience. If we get a working majority, if we getjust nine seats more, we can be out onjanuary the 30th. And how long will the trade deals take . Well. Years . No. We can get. We will do many new deals with countries around the world, but with the eu we can build a new Free Trade Partnership by the end of next year. Tell me what youre doing. The snp telling voters in scotland theyve gotjust a week to stop borisjohnson and to stop brexit. And i hope you will look at the plans weve set out. I dont believe that many people in scotland want to be waking up on friday the 13th of december two news of borisjohnson as friday the 13th of december two news of Boris Johnson as prime friday the 13th of december two news of borisjohnson as Prime Minister for five years. And i hope that you. The lib dem leader was stopped yesterday by Extinction Rebellion activists who surrounded jo swinsons campaign bus. But her supporters say the campaign is still on the move, fighting for the political middle ground. Do we want to have a moderating voice within our politics . Because i really dont think the british people like extremes, and the liberal democrats have always offered that centre path that helps to actually prevent some of those things happening. And as i say, our manifesto is really ambitious. I hope people will give it a look. This time next week the polls will be open, and so the parties have just a few days left to persuade you to give them your vote. And what you decide will determine how many mps each party gets to send here to westminster, and could ultimately shape this countrys politics for years to come. Tom barton, bbc news, westminster. 0ur economics correspondent, andy verity, is here to discuss todays promises from the conservatives and labour. Borisjohnson challenged today in fact raises taxes overall, whats your analysis . We have actually got some slightly mixed messages here, rita, when you talk about a tax cutting budgets, normally what you mean is that overall, all of the measures in any given budget entail more of the chance of cutting taxes and raising taxes. You call it a giveaway budget as opposed to a take away budgets, but actually, because they are withdrawing their plan to a Corporation Tax cuts, which was going to be about £6 billion, that measure raises money compared to what they would have had had they gone ahead with that tax cut. So thats what they call a take away by the chancellor, rather than a giveaway, and its also much larger than the tax cuts that they are it proposing for individual families. So where are the conservative party told us, look, we are talking about individualfamilies, the told us, look, we are talking about individual families, the taxes going down, because we are raising the National Insurance threshold. Actually, Boris Johnson National Insurance threshold. Actually, borisjohnson talked about something slightly different, talking about overall tax cutting budget will stopjudging by talking about overall tax cutting budget will stop judging by the conservatives on figures, it is not overall a tax cutting budget. So the Prime Minister in the conservative party may want to make their state m e nts party may want to make their statements a bit more consistent. 0k, and when it comes to labour, they were today planning for 20,000 extra teachers. How easy will that be to do . Not very easy, judged on the record for recruiting teachers in the last few years. In terms of the money, they have set out how they will find that command with the money will come from, mostly from borrowing, it has to be said, rather than raising taxes, and there are questions over whether that borrowing will be as cheap to afford in a year or twos time, as it looks like it will be now. 20,000 new teachers is quite close to what the lib dems are proposing. They have been proposing a big number of extra teachers. Capped class sizes at 30, and for example, breakfast and Free School Meals for all kids in primary school. Now, that does create questions as to whether they can get the numbers of people involved. Are there people out there with the skills. They are saying they will scale up teachers who are unqualified, but whether there are enough qualified teachers willing to work in the british Education System to fulfil that pledge is another question. Compared to the conservatives who are proposing more money for schools, but still, the conservatives wouldnt take their schools budget back up beyond, sorry, the overall education budget beyond what was in 2010, whereas labour and the lib dems will be substantially above. 0k, andy, many thanks. Thejewish Labour Movement has refused to endorseJeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister amid renewed claims the party has failed to tackle anti semitism. 70 labour officials, past and present, have given formal statements to the equality and human rights commission, which is investigating the pa rtys handling of anti semitism allegations. Jeremy corbyn denies that labour has become a refuge for anti semites under his leadership. 0ur Political Correspondent iain watson has seen the full submission from the jewish Labour Movement to the equalities commission. Iain, what does it tell us . This is the submission, reeta, 53 pages of it, filled with examples of anti semitic behaviour towards members of the jewish anti semitic behaviour towards members of thejewish Labour Movements, and they have put this together along with basically the claim that labour is simply not getting to grips with the problem. So, for example, they cite 136 cases that have yet to be dealt with as of 0ctober, that have yet to be dealt with as of october, and they also say 100 complaints of anti semitism werent even logged in the Party Systems at all. Now, labour say even logged in the Party Systems at all. Now, laboursay those even logged in the Party Systems at all. Now, labour say those figures are inaccurate, but the law of the jewish Labour Movement lawyer of the movement who has put the submission to the commission made it very clear that the statements that she had all had one thing in common. Anti semitism in the labour party is a pervasive culture that is present in all parts of the party. Local party meetings, party conferences, online forums, the disciplinary processes, and its officials. The scale of anti semitism, as reported by labour, is inaccurate. Lasting changes need to be made, but the evidence laid out in the submission shows that the labour party is unable and unwilling to do so. 0bviously, obviously, the Labour Movement are claiming that labour has been slow to tackle this problem, and the problem still exists. At the party says it rejects allegations that its institutionally anti semitic or indeed a refuge for people with anti semitic views. Earlier today, the labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, told the bbc that he was speeding up the system for dealing with the worst cases of anti semitism in the party. I became leader of the party, there were no processes in place to deal with anti semitism. I asked baroness chakrabarti to produce a report on this, which she did. And following that, we introduced rules to deal with it. We introduced an appeals procedure to deal with it. And we introduced an education process so the Party Members understood the hurt that can be caused by anti semitic remarks or anti semitic behaviour. And introduced, injuly, a further rule change to say that really serious, egregious cases could be dealt with in a fast track process to our National Constitution committee, which is independent of me. Jeremy corbyn said effectively this new fast track process could lead to more rapid expulsions. He also said he regretted any hurt that had been caused by anti semitism. Quite frankly in this election campaign, reeta, hes really struggled to take the sting out of this politically toxic issue. 0k, ian, many thanks. Reporting from westminster. Police have fired tear gas in the first city during the biggest rake in decades, which has brought large parts of the country to a standstill. Rail and Metro Services are deserted, fights have been grounded, and about half of euro Star Services between paris and london have been cancelled. Many schools were also affected. The strike is against plans to create a universal retirement scheme which unions say will force millions of people to retire later or live on a reduced pension. Alexandra mckenzie has the latest. Protesters gathered from anger spilt over towards the french president , and his plans to deform pensions. With a heavy police presence, they responded with tear gas. This is frances Largest National Public Sector strike in years. With more than 200 demonstrations expected across the country, others have been more peaceful. Transport workers, hospital staff and teachers are amongst those demanding that president macron abandon his plans to overhaul frances pension system. He wants to introduce a simplified points based system but unions are strongly opposed. Translation a universal system is all well and good, except for those who have problems in their careers, and there isa problems in their careers, and there is a lot of uncertainty, unemployment, they would be paying less or nothing. They have a right to receive pensions. Transport networks in paris and other french cities ground to a near halt this morning, metro stations were largely deserted during rush hour, and hundreds of flights were cancelled. London Saint Pancras is also effective form of euro start is working on a reduced service until the 10th of december, passengers are advised to check the timetable before travel. In france, this is a protest that threatens to pa ralyse the country. Translation in the following days, the Prime Minister will give very concrete guidelines on the new pension system. So i hope by the middle of next week, we can make very concrete progress with the unions. This strike will be over as soon as possible. The battle between president negron in the unions for public supports will be pivotal to the strikes success. Previous governments have tried to bring about pension reform and failed. Alexander mackenzie, bbc news. The bbcs Hugh Scofield in the french capital sent this update. A bit ago, they started which is behind here, infact, we a bit ago, they started which is behind here, in fact, wejust missed the tail end of the demonstration go past us. The line of police at the back, which has been bringing up the rear, there were blocked up here for a good couple of hours earlier on in the afternoon. As we waited for the front of the demonstration to move. Its turned out that they were being stopped by these clashes, so called, in the republic. Quite how serious they were, its hard to guess. I suspect they couldve been a lot worse. There were a couple of bonfires set alight by radicals and a bit of tear gas in response. But, the very fact that the demonstration is not obviously proceeding, suggests that it wasnt that serious, and they have been cleared away. There was a big fear though that this demonstration, which has drawn tens of thousands of people could degenerate into the kind of trouble we saw over the last year in the yellow vest demonstrations. But ina way, the yellow vest demonstrations. But in a way, todays demonstration is a throwback to an older more traditional style of french demonstration, one in which the unions play a very big part, in which they marshal very effectively there rank and file. In general, that seems to be the case, but there have been obviously some interruptions by the so called black blocks. Thats the radicals, the anarchists who kind of leach onto these demonstrations quite regularly now. Hugh schofield there. Time for a look at the headlines now and bbc news. With one week to go in the general election with one week to go until the general election, the leaders of the main Political Parties have been out pushing their big election pledges. Us Speaker Nancy Pelosi says impeachment proceedings will go ahead against donald trump for pressuring ukraine to investigate his Democratic Political rival. French Police Fire Tear gas at protestors as the biggest nationwide strike in years brings most of the country to a standstill. And in sport. Marco silvas facing the sack as everton manager. The clubs owner Farhad Moshiri has travelled from london to the training as the board meet to decide his future. Everton are in the bottom three after defeat in the Merseyside Derby ronnie 0sullivan is out of the uk championship at york. He was beaten 6 4 by dithun hui. And anthonyjoshua says he expects to be at his lightest weight in five years for his rematch with andy ruiz jr. Joshuas been focusing on speed in his training camp, having lost to ruiz injune. Ill be back with more on those stories after half past. Thousands of Mental Health patients in england are facing long waits for access to the nhss talking therapies service, according to bbc research. Figures for the past year show, after their initial assessment, 95,000 people had to wait more than 90 days for a follow up appointment. The Service Helps people with conditions such as depression, anxiety and post Traumatic Stress disorder. More details from our Health Correspondent dominic hughes. From day to day, most of my governing thoughts were around about whether i should make it through the next day or not. Paul has struggled with his Mental Health ever since he developed post Traumatic Stress disorder following a violent attack while working as a Police Officer. He relies on talking therapies provided by the nhs, but sometimes the wait for treatment to begin has been too long and dangerous. When youre actively that unwell and all youre after is help and support with what it is that you are going through, the symptoms i was experiencing, just a delay of several weeks or a month or six weeks is literally a lifetime for people when youre acutely unwell. Each part of the uk has its own talking therapy service, and waiting times are not directly comparable. The service in england is known as improving access to psychological therapies, and of more than1 million referrals last year, nine out of ten were seen within the target time of six weeks. But 50 of all patients who needed further treatment more than half a Million People waited longer than 28 days for their second appointment when the actual therapy generally starts. One in six patients, nearly 95,000 people, waited over 90 days for their second appointment. What this evidence is showing is that youre getting people in the door and then they are having to wait a significantly longer time than they should be to get the next step of treatmen

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