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Good morning. It is going to be fairly cloudy and wet today across the central swathes of the uk. To the central swathes of the uk. To the south of that mostly dry and mild. In the north, blustery showers with gales in north west scotland. Details later. Good morning. Its wednesday, 13th march. Rishi sunak is facing calls to hand back millions of pounds donated to the Conservative Party by a businessman accused of making racist comments about the mp, diane abbott. Tech boss frank hester is reported to have said ms abbott made him want to hate all black women, and that she should be shot. The Prime Minister called the comments racist and wrong. Our Political CorrespondentHannah Miller has more. Hello, rishi. How are you . Very nice to see you. When rishi ....
we are live in ukraine as the country marks a year to the day since russia s invasion. we have a special report on the battle for one strategic town. a t20 world cup semi final. on bbc london: a year after the war in ukraine began and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel. harry brook breaks another test record to put england on top in the second test against new zealand. action for three days, it s got a pretty difficult to deal with across the nhs. there will be other parts of the nhs taking industrial action in march. there will also be ambulance worker strikes on 6th march, 8th march, 20th march involving three separate unions. there is no strike action in scotland after a higher pay offer and some unions are considering an offerfrom the welsh and some unions are considering an offer from the welsh government. the royal college of nursing is in talk with ministers about pay in england. but no news yet on how that is progressed. thank yo ....
before going down the ice waterfall in svalbard, norway. he described the experience as like kayaking on another planet . we might all have some words for it. time for a look at the weather. here s helen willetts. have we got some of that weather? certainly we have some wintry weather. some of the coldest november nights for about 12 or 13 years and is leading to some ice and snow issues and freezing fog will just add to the hazards as well. the rain and the snow that we had through devon and, starting to move out of the way. if you wintry showers around the periphery and we will see some icy conditions because temperatures are plummeting away. the mist, low cloud and fog is forming, freezing fog to add into that makes. a colder night than last night by degree or so and a colder day tomorrow. some freezing fog potentially for the central lowlands, northern england and wales and the ice risk around. some wintry showers in essex and kent and parts of scotland. if you more in t ....
politicians and perhaps particularly that period during the pandemic, did you feel there was as it were a deficit in their understanding of the granular way in which the nhs works? i the granular way in which the nhs works? ~ ,. , ., , , works? i think her description seems to be accurate works? i think her description seems to be accurate regarding works? i think her description seems to be accurate regarding their - to be accurate regarding their cabinet office. the extent to which number ten has health expertise is to some extent a function of how the prime minister of the day chooses to staff the number ten policy unit. during the pandemic itself i think there is truth in what she says. but to some extent, as long as that doesn t lead to ill informed second guessing the decisions that people in the nhs are actually trying to take, that need not in itself be a problem. fine trying to take, that need not in itself be a problem. itself be a problem. one can cert ....