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the military takeover there. we start in the uk, which has seen the biggest day of strike action in more than a decade, according to the unions, with up to half a million people walking out in disputes over pay, jobs and conditions. among those striking are train drivers from the aslef union impacting most train companies across england. bus drivers in london about 100,000 civil servants from over a hundred government departments. thousands of university staff from 150 universities across the uk. and teachers from the national education union. these aerial images show demonstrators marching past the bbc s headquarters in london. 0ur employment correspondent was with them nearby at whitehall. the scale of this. this is the biggest straight for more than a decade. there has been some sort of talk about, could this be the general strike? it is not that. there are unions who have decided not to strike today. it certainly could be a lot bigger. what s interesting is there ....
brief weather window, but not for long. that dry spell for many today, replaced by wetter weather over the weekend particularly tomorrow, then showers follow, some of the wettest weather perhaps wales and the southwest. that s where the met office have won it out for further concerns for flooding but ahead of that at least we ve had drier weather, hazy sunshine for the rest of the day but it time the rain is gathering, light and patchy to start with but you can see waiting in the wings something more significant. it s still relatively mild, average is around 6 7 this time of year and temperatures won t drop below much of that tonight but the rain, once it arrives, its stock for 6 10 hours. it looks set to clear from northern ireland later in the night, temperatures dip back to 7 degrees but for most it sits a mild night and rather grey and dreary start to our saturday. it might be a while before the rain reaches the far south east and east anglia but for most of us if i ....
than 30 books has died at the age of 90 books. and a thrilling finish at the pdc world darts championships as england s michael smith triumphs for the first time. and coming up in sportsday later on the bbc news channel. we ll have reaction to the death of the west ham co owner david gold who has passed away after a short illness at the age of 86. good evening. the prime minister has focused on the nhs, the cost of living and the economy as he set out a fresh vision for his government with five pledges to voters. mr sunak promised to halve inflation, grow the economy, reduce debt, cut waiting lists and stop illegal channel crossings. the government has been under huge pressure on the nhs and the prime minister said reforms were coming and that something has to change. labour called him the do nothing prime minister and said the country is entitled to ask, is that it? 0ur political editor chris mason reports. we have had thousands and thousands of pounds of business lost over ....
Happens today is going to have a direct impact on the lives of millions of workers. but also on the public who use those services. i mentioned before, we talked about how the unions would react. rishi sunak is trying to balance several of his different pledges that he made at the start of this year. on the one hand, he said he wants to half inflation, and both he and the chancellor, jeremy hunt, have warned that if they were to give a higher increased public sector workers, that could lead to what they have called a wage price spiral, ie wages go called a wage price spiral, ie wages 9° up called a wage price spiral, ie wages go up and inflation goes up and it continues, so next year those workers need and another pay increase. they say they don t want that to happen. on the other hand, if a pay rise isn t given across the public sector, how are we going to retain the doctors that we need. we hear from the nhs all the time that they are losing workers who are going abroad, or who are l ....