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i am clear that our children s education is precious, and they deserve to be in school today, being taught. the day also saw action by thousands of university lecturers, civil servants, and train and bus drivers. we ll have the details. also tonight. in memphis, national and local leaders pay tribute to tyre nichols, the 29 year old black man who died after a beating by police. one of the biggest theatres in the north of england cancels all its shows from the end of march, after losing all of its funding from arts council england. martial waits. rashford, and finished off by fred. and two goals in three minutes ensure manchester united are heading to wembley. and coming up on the bbc news channel, jofra archer is on target for england. six wickets for him on his return as they salvage some pride in south africa. good evening. as many as 500,000 workers have been on strike today across the united kingdom, in the biggest single day of industrial action in over a decade. m ....
the household energy supplier octopus is to buy its competitor, bulb, the largest energy company to collapse last year, amid soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices. since then, the government has spent billions of pounds keeping bulb afloat but now, octopus has agreed a deal to take on the company s one and a half million customers. our business reporter, ramzan kamali, has the details. the energy market was in disarray this time last year. dozens of firms went bust as energy prices soared. the regulator, ofgem, increased what was then known as the energy price cap. the biggest victim was bulb, put in a special administration, kept going by a huge government bailout. today octopus are confident the takeover of bulb s customers would be a smooth one. octopus has a great track record of bringing large numbers of customers across, for example, when avro fell, it was the largest company to date, we were able to look after those customers and staff pretty seamlessly. w ....
at 10pm we will be here with a full round up of the day s news. first, ourworld: svalbard s climate change fight. deep in the arctic circle, there s a place under threat like no other. this is svalbard, the fastest warming spot on earth. it s out of control. it s. it s really impacting our lives and the wildlife around us. it s scary. it s climate change on fast forward. we know that the clock is ticking, but i choose to stay hopeful, actually. yeah. i can t do anything else. we want to know what s being done to save svalbard as we know it. we are testing new technology, new systems. but even here, are they really ready to give up fossil fuels in the middle of an energy crisis in europe? they haven t found the perfect substitute yet, so coal - are still here to stay. and now the war in ukraine is undermining the international fight against climate change. one of the consequences is that the official exchange with russian institutions is not possible at this time. it s a ....
another day of strikes more than 1,000 ambulance staff in wales walk out in a dispute over pay and conditions. meanwhile in england, nurses continue their strike action for a second day in a row. new zealand s prime minister jacinda ardern makes a surprise announcement saying she ll stand down in less than three weeks time. a day of national strikes begins in france over plans to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64. king charles asks for millions of pounds in profits from the crown estate to be used for the wider public good rather than for the royal family. the government has released details of projects which will benefit from its levelling up fund, which is intended to spread economic growth more widely across the uk. in all, £2.1 billion will be spent on regeneration projects. they span more than a hundred areas across the country. some of the biggest winners include a new eden project at morecambe bay which gets £50 million. there s 50 million pound ....
this is the last chance for the candidates jair bolsonaro and luiz inacio lula da silva, to reach millions of brazilians before sunday s election run off vote. to sweden now, where researchers are close to completing the first crash test dummy based on an average woman. for decades, car safety features have been designed and tested using dummies representing the size, for decades, car safety features have been designed and tested using dummies representing the size, relative weight and anatomy of an average man. shiona mccallum reports. crash test dummies are used to test how well car safety features protect people against injury. but not everyone is equally protected. women are three times more likely to suffer whiplash than men, if they re in a car that is hit from behind. although whiplash isn t usually fatal, it can cause serious impairment disabilities. sarah s car was hit from behind last month. it was a really big shock at the time, and my daughter was absolute ....