Stay updated with breaking news from Brendon williams. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
nhs leaders are warning that the health service is facing the brutal reality of an easter as bad as most winters, with figures due this morning expected to show record waiting times. i have been let out of the studio and sent to the seaside in the north wales coast and i have in speaking to voters all day to find out what is important to them in the elections in may. hello and welcome to bbc news. some asylum seekers are to be sent to east africa while their claims are processed under a new deal between britain and rwanda. it s understood that single men who travel across the english channel in small boats will be sent more than four thousand miles to rwanda. the government sees it as a way to discourage people from crossing the english channel in small boats while critics have called the plans cruel . last year almost 29,000 people crossed the english channel in small boats. yesterday alone 600 people made the crossing. the uk is expected to give 120 million pounds ....
the data from the office for national statistics shows the economy shrank by 0.3% in the final three months of last year. the chancellorjeremy hunt has blamed high inflation labour says the government s economic record is in tatters . it is thought that the dip may not last long, because the uk jobs market and wage growth remain strong. our chief economics correspondent dharshini david reports. it was a damn end of the year. from construction to manufacturing and retail, the biggest cost of living crunch in decades, and the higher interest rates deployed to combat that took their toll on spending, profits and output, pushing the economy further into reverse. what most would term a mild recession. we are all managing but it is hard sometimes, yes, as pensioners, everything sometimes, yes, as pensioners, everything is going up, but you just have to everything is going up, but you just have to live everything is going up, but you just have to live it to your means ....
our main story. figures released this morning will show how the uk economy has performed and whether it dipped into recession at the end of last year. the office for national statistics will publish its economic health check for the final three months of 2023 in the next hour. nick eardley is in shrewsbury this morning. it looks bright and lively but not necessarily a reflection of the economy. there are a lot of experts who think we will be talking about the uk having been in recession at the uk having been in recession at the end of 2023. we are entries we market to get some reaction and speak to traders, about how the economy feels to them. in shrewsbury market. it has been a tricky time with rising prices and interest rates and rent going up as well. what it will tell us at seven is about the health of the economy. if the uk did fall into recession it is bad news, it is a bad sense things are not going particularly well for the economy. bad economic news, bad new ....
time for a look at the weather, here s ben rich. good afternoon. we had split fortunes temperature wise in the last few days. it has been cold in the south of the uk and another frosty start this morning but temperatures will slowly creep up a little over the next few days. this is aberdeen where yesterday it was close to 16 degrees. really mild in the north of the uk but here temperatures will be dropping away a little so essentially we end up whole in the same boat. things are starting to change because of this cold front, behind that the air is relatively cold so temperatures coming down a little in the north of the uk. this area has been stubborn in the south and will start to get pushed out of the way so we had that slight rise in temperatures but not just yet. very cold and gloomy in the south and east of england to the rest of the day and then this band of rain and behind that some spells of rain and behind that some spells of sunshine. through tonight we keep so ....
quorum call: a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. barrasso: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. barrasso: mr. president, i come to the floor today as the pain of obamacare around the country continues to worsen. the health care crisis continues to grow. obamacare is collapsing basically more and more every day. people in every state of this union have seen their health care costs skyrocket, happening everywhere around the country. we must do something to help the american people who are suffering under the heavyweight that obamacare has placed on their lives. i was in a hospital this past weekend in casper, wyoming, my hometown and talked with doctors, talked with nurses, talked with patients. what i hear at home in wyoming is that there is an urgent need to do something about the high costs and the limited choices under the obama health ca ....