treats in the forecast and some tricks too. i ll have the forecast for halloween. it s halloween and many of you are carving up your pumpkins but according to research, we ll be binning up to eight million of them. the pumpkin rescue campaign will be here later to us what we should be doing with our left overs. hello, everyone this is afternoon live. i m nicholas owen. there are new plans to reduce the number of assaults on nhs staff in england. thousands of doctors, nurses and other workers are attacked or abused every year. a proposed new law would mean offenders facing tougher sentences, while staff will be better protected under what is called the nhs violence reduction strategy. here s lauren moss. these are just some of the shocking incidents recorded against front line nhs staff. kicking, hitting and sometimes worse. nurse shelley pearce was taken hostage when a patient became hostile trying to leave the ward. she became quite distressed and broke an item in her ro
he says none of this happened. he says he didn t do anything wrong here. today we are expecting for the former publisher of the national enquirer to be back on the stand, because he is someone who was integrally a part of all of these transactions that are said to have been made in order to sort of catch and kill stories that looked unfavourable to the former president or to the then candidate trump at the time. so he is going to be back on the stand. the defence, the former president s legal team is going to be questioning him as they continue to try and poke holes in some of these arguments that the former president, again, orchestrated this scheme illegally to disclose some of those payments. a primary school teacher who stabbed her boyfriend and buried his body in the garden of their terraced house in northampton has pleaded guilty to murder, during her second trial at the old bailey. fiona beal, who s 50, was arrested last year after police found a notebook containing he
it s perhaps the election year. globally, more voters than ever in history will head to the polls. at least 64 countries, containing just under half of the world s total population, are expected to hold nationwide polls. the results of which, for many, will prove consequential for years to come. the biggest parliamentary vote is being held in india an operation so vast, it s being held in several stages with the second phase getting under way today. let s get more of this in delhi. taken through this next what does it involve, who is voting what seats are contested? b5 involve, who is voting what seats are contested? are contested? as you correctly said, are contested? as you correctly said. this are contested? as you correctly said. this is are contested? as you correctly said, this is the are contested? as you correctly said, this is the biggest - are contested? as you correctly i said, this is the biggest democracy in action in the world. 540 plus parliamentaria
to me. it sounds all really good. paris saint germain can win a record extending 12th french league title this weekend if they beat le havre at home. it s also the first step in a potential treble as they re still in the champions league and have a french cup final next month. translation: we are coming to the end of the season translation: we are coming to the end of the season in translation: we are coming to the end of the season in positive - end of the season in positive circumstances. i had never thought of a scenario as positive as this because i don t think too much about the future. whatever comes welcome and i will accept it. i think we are in a splendid moment in every sense of the word. we have almost all the players available. i supporters are very happy and the club has a lot of ambition to achieve something different. this british sugar season is attractive, it motivates us a lot this end to the season. one of the world s biggest women s football stars
after ending his coalition with the greens. the bbc understands he will not be announcing his resignation despite a conservative confidence vote in his leadership of the scottish government, likely to be scheduled for holyrood next week. our scotland local correspondent david henderson has the story. the bute house agreement lasted less than 1,000 days, but it brought green ministers into government for the first time anywhere in the uk and with them came a raft of green policies. so what do voters think now they re gone? i think it s sad because i think the greens are a good influence on the snp, but i guess we ve had a minority government before, so i guess it s going to happen again. yeah, like, ivote green most of the time. but, yeah, it hasn t been brilliant. for months, this power sharing deal was under pressure, with key plans like the deposit return scheme stalled, then ditched. chanting: trans rights! the final straw, a row over the pause on the prescription of pub