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are switching accounts for better service for our money. in sport, seven points clear now. chelsea close in on the premier league title with a vital victory over southampton. we ll also be looking at how your garden grows, as a new report says climate change affects the north and the south in very different ways. and carol has the weather. good morning. another cool day in prospect. still some wintry showers in the forecast but there will be some sunshine as well. later, cloud coming in from the north west and the wind eases but i will have more detail in about 15 minutes. good morning. first, our main story. labour has promised to increase pay for nhs staff and to restore bursaries for nurses in training if it wins the general election. the party says it will abolish the current cap for staff in england which limits pay increases to i%. it also plans to introduce a law that ensures staffing levels in hospitals are safe. our health editor hugh pym reports. marchers by s ....
trump s tax cuts and those french elections. riding the wave of the foodie revolution. celebrity chef mark hix will be with us to talk, food, fads and investment. today, we want to know is cash your king? a survey says a third of us would rather pay digitally, do you still carry cash or is contactless the future? let us know. just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. cash, rachel. always carry that with you. i shouldn t say that. i don t have any cash on me! shaking up the tax system has been a major theme of the trump administration. today he s promising what he describes as a big announcement on his planned reforms. in fact, mr trump has already said he s planning what he s called maybe the biggest tax cut we ve ever had . during the campaign he talked about cutting the top individual tax rate from 36.9% to 25%. in terms of business, he wants to cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 15%. mr trump has also proposed charging american firms a one off tax ofjust 10% on money t ....
also this hour, how climate change is transforming the british garden. they will be looking at new techniques because of rising temperatures. and looking for love online one rhino‘s search for a partner on the dating app tinder. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. the labour party has switched its election campaigning to the nhs today pledging to give a bigger pay rise to nhs staff in england if it wins the general election. labour says it would scrap tuition fees and restore bursaries for student nurses and midwives which are due to end in august. the party says it would end the current 1% cap on wage increases, in part because nhs staff had been undervalued, overworked and underpaid by the government. labour says. and it says its policies would be paid for by reversing corporation tax cuts. the party says a labour government would also introduce tougher rules to ensure that staffing levels in hospitals are safe. the shadow health secretary, jon ashwort ....
an administrative error. now on bbc news, all the latest business news live from singapore. us markets deliver a cool reception to president trump s plan to slash corporate tax rates. and living a samsung life. why south korea s corporate giants are so big you d struggle to live without them. good morning, asia. hello, world. glad you could join us for this thursday edition of asia business report, i m rico hizon. donald trump is hours away from completing his first 100 days in office, a milestone where the chief executive is graded on his progress in office and before the clock ticks down, following through on a major campaign promise with a proposal to drastically cut the business tax from 35% to 15%. well, it is now clear how the white house plans to pay for the cuts which could add some $2 trillion to the national deficit over the next decade. but the us treasury secretary says economic growth is both the goal and the solution. we believe we can get back to 3% or hi ....
and fancy working in an enormous train station? i don t know if you ve noticed, but there seems to have been a lot of election talk of late. this week, click is taking a trip to paris where, this weekend, the french take to the polls in the first round of their presidential election. and curiously, from a technology point of view, the way we vote seems, if anything, to be going backwards. in the last election, france did allow online voting for those living overseas. but not this time. for both the presidential elections and the legislative elections injune, it is back to pen and paper. and that is due to the fear of cyber attacks, which the french national cyber security agency says are an extremely high risk. queues of people, paper voting surely there has to be a better way. well, we asked bbc newsbeat‘s political editor jonathan blake to have a look. ancient institutions and modern technology the two do not always go together. as elections are held worldwide t ....