The truth is taxes are still going up. People feel worse off because they are worse off. So this morning, we have one big question in what direction would labour drive the economy . The woman in charge of the partys calculator, Rachel Reeves, who wants to be the next chancellor is here. The budget promised extra cash to get more bang for taxpayers bucks in the Health Service. Well ask the health secretary, victoria atkins, what difference that will make. And whats it like when your body wont do the Amazing Things you used to do the lead singer of del amitri tells us how parkinsons hasnt stopped him taking to the stage. Morning, morning. Helping me out at the desk for the next 60 minutes, chef and green campaigner Hugh Fearnley whittingstall, john lewis boss dame sharon white, and lord michael howard, former conservative leader, and one time Shadow Chancellor, too. A very warm welcome to all of you. Making the news this morning. The sunday times says Boris Johnson went to venezuela, and
almost a0 people are dead after a passenger train and a freight train collide head on. and the singer ed sheeran opens up about using music to cope with depression last year after his pregnant wife was diagnosed with a tumour. and coming up on the bbc news channel: the long awaited disciplinary hearing following azeem rafiq s allegations of racism in yorkshire cricket club has begun in london. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. fresh questions have been raised about the judgement of the former health secretary matt hancock during the covid pandemic after a collection of his whatsapp messages were released. the messages, dating back to april 2020, published by the daily telegraph, cover issues such as care homes, schools and testing. in one of the most serious allegations the paper claims the messages show mr hancock ignored advice from senior medical officers to test everyone going into care homes in england, something he strongly denies. here s our political ed
their work in afghanistan. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are nigel nelson, who s the political editor of the sunday mirror and sunday people, and the political commentatorjo phillips. belated merry christmas to you both. i ll be with you in a moment. i m just going to take our viewers there if the front pages. the guardian has analysis of train delays on its front page. the paper claims over half ofjourneys from the uk s busiest stations have experienced delay an investigation into energy companies leads the front page of the daily telegraph/ of the daily telegraph. the paper says direct debits are going up even when accounts are in credit. the i leads on a survey from the british medical association, which suggests two thirds ofjunior doctors are trying to leave the nhs. meanwhile, the front page of the daily mail claims fees for agency staff are sucking the nhs dry. it says that the health service is being charg
are going to do later today it is a veil this indo-pacific economic frame or. that is essentially an agreement between 13 different countries in the region. where they have agreed to consider negotiations on a number of fronts. on trade, for instance. on dealing with supply change, on climate change. so a lot to come, a lot was said at that press conference. and the two leaders are now going to go to talk about other issues. particularly north korea. caralee, thank you so much. nbc news white house correspondent traveling with the president. we ll have much more on the presidents trip tomorrow morning, and now we go back to our program, a dateline in progress. progress and with these shots, we can learn a little about the world this young photographer saw. and her sense of exactly when to snap the shutter to capture the world in front of her. it s an impressive portfolio belonging to a young woman named denita smith. she began looking through a lens in childhood. and never
Its wholly inadequate, but i know everyone is thinking about your community right now and the horror and terror they experienced and still must be experiencing as we discussed. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you. Joining our conversation gun safety advocate, our dear friend Fred Guttenbering who has helped us talk through so many news cycle like this one, so many tragic moments when an entire community made up of familyings like his is changed in an instant. His daughter jamie was murdered in the Mass Shooting in parkland, florida. Also joining our conversation former fbi Counter Intelligence agent pete struck. Fred, the details are being logged in every parent and tragally a lot of kids brains today, right . This happened at a Bowling Alley. This happened on youth night. So add to school, add to the baseball field, add to the walmart, the Bowling Alley on youth night as a place that is no longer safe in the United States of america in 2023. Nicolle, i thought the evolution