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good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. we start this hour with breaking news teachers in england and wales will go on strike in national disputes over pay. the national education union says the ballots meet the legal thresholds for both turnout and a vote in favour of strikes. seven strike days are being announced between february 1st and 16th march. for more on this, i m joined by our education editor bra nwen jeffreys. what more do we know about this teacher strike which is going to start very soon? the teacher strike which is going to start very soon? teacher strike which is going to start very soon? the paint teachers have had, 5% start very soon? the paint teachers have had. 5% pay start very soon? the paint teachers have had, 5% pay increase - start very soon? the paint teachers l have had, 5% pay increase in england and separately in wales this year, the union says that falls far below inflation in the cost of living and everyone is seeing that. and the r ....
madeline grant, and the former justice secretary and chief secretary to the treasury david gauke. hello, welcome to the programme. so that s it. the first monday of september. the kids back are at school, the long slog of winter ahead of us, politics has returned, and finally there s a new prime minister at the helm. tomorrow, liz truss will be installed as the fourth conservative prime minister in six years. we need to show that we will deliver over the next two years. i will deliver a bold plan to cut taxes and grow our economy. i will deliver on the energy crisis, dealing with people s energy bills, but also dealing with the long term issues we have on energy supply. she defeated the former chancellor rishi sunak, but by a much narrower margin than the pollsters predicted. in the end, the difference between them was 21,000 votes she won 57% of the votes cast, rishi sunak 43%. that is smaller margin of victory than was enjoyed by borisjohnson in 2019, 6% of the vote, or d ....
of a 44 billion dollar deal to buy twitter. as italy battles its worst drought in 70 years, we report from communities which are seeing a third of their agricultural produce threatened. ina in a normal year, even in high summer, i could not do what i m doing right now, which is a walk across this stretch of river po without even getting my feet wet. this riverbed has become a sandbank. and.go for it all naomi campbell gives her advice on modelling and motherhood after being awarded an honorary doctorate for her impact on global fashion. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. our top story in sri lanka protesters have stormed the president s official residence in colombo as the country s economic crisis deepens. the whereabouts of the president are unknown. we can bring you some new pictures which have just come in showing the potesters inside the residence. police fired tear gas in an effort to disperse huge crowds gathered to demand the ....
could britain s former chancellor, rishi sunak, be the conservative party s new leader, as he becomes the latest mp to enter the race to be the next prime minister? downing street has just told the bbc it is incredibly disappointed, real disappointment with the former chancellor for not reciprocating the loyalty of the prime minister showed to him. the body of japan s former prime minister, shinzo abe, is brought back to his tokyo residence, a day after he was shot dead during a political rally. elon musk is threatened with legal action after pulling out of a $41; billion deal to buy twitter. now, we are going to talk more about the causes and consequences of boris johnson s resignation as prime minister. it is dateline london with me, shaun ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk columnists with foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast from the dateline: london. britain s conservatives like to think of themselves as belongin ....
is to persuade those who are not an government to replace those ministers who have left. and again it comes back to numbers. if there is to be a vote of confidence, which seemed definitely certain if he does not choose to resign, does he feel that he could just about when such a vote? but i guess he would also have to ask himself the question, let s say he survived a second vote of confidence but with a smaller majority, still have would that leave him? how would that leave his authority was making him of that leave his power? in some ways it s almost a surreal conversation we are having because i don t know whether the sort of mood at westminster is wrong, but i think people are thinking these are very much the last hours, the last minutes of boris johnson s last hours, the last minutes of borisjohnson s possibly last hours, the last minutes of boris johnson s possibly the days last hours, the last minutes of borisjohnson s possibly the days of his premiership and the real q ....