Thousands have been left homeless, and more bad weather is forecast. Slovakia and hungary are bracing against floodwaters moving down the River Danube and its tributaries. These are the pictures from nysa overnight where people have been helping protect the flood defences. 0ur correspondent, sarah rainsford, is there. I am in nysa now, just a few miles from where we were for that report and here in nysa it was a pretty dramatic night overnight. The mayor, as you heard in that report, had given an Emergency Evacuation Order and then there were volunteers who are here all Night Stuffing Sandbags like this, forming a Human Chain to bring the bags down here to the embankment where a section of the River Bank had subsided. And there was a danger, according to the mayor, of that River Bank collapsing completely and the water rushing through into the town of nysa where we are now. You can see the wall of sandbags and the river behind. They have plugged the gap and in fact the River Level or W
Well hear from teachers who say parents have made their lives a misery. Hello and welcome to the programme. Were live until 11am. Throughout the programme well bring you the latest Breaking News and developing stories and, as always, keen to hear from you. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning. Our top story today. Labour has promised to increase pay for nhs staff and scrap tuition fees for Student Nurses if it wins the General Election. The party says it will abolish the current cap for staff in england which limits pay increases to 1 . Labour said the policies would help Address Staffing Shortages in england that had become a threat to patients. Our political guru norman smith is in westminster for us now. Hi norman, good morning. So, how much will this pay rise be for nhs staff . Well, labour are saying they wa nt staff . Well, labour are saying they want people in the nhs to get a pay rise in line with the cost of living. So that means going up, i guess
In the morning here in singapore and midnight in london, seven in the evening in washington where President Trump has spoken about the appointment of a Special Counsel to Ta Ke Appointment of a Special Counsel to take over the Russian Investigation into potential ties to his campaign. He said the entire affair was a witch hunt which hurt the country, as he put it, and he denied ever asking the fbi director to end the investigation into his National Security adviser Michael Flynn. We have the details from washington. The president s just not happy with the scrutiny he continues to come under over his links with russia. The entire thing has been a witch hunt. And there is no collusion between, certainly myself and my campaign. But i can only speak for myself and the russians, zero. I think it divides the country. I think we have a very divided country because of that and many other things. Did you urge the former fbi director to close or back down the investigation into Michael Flynn . N
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