hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are torcuil crighton who s westminster editor at the daily record and claire cohen, women s editor at the daily telegraph. the independent says amazon is to tell shoppers to order christmas presents as early as november because of the supply chain problems. while the telegraph reports demands for improved pay and conditions by lorry drivers saying there could be co ordinated strikes if their demands aren t met. the metro splashes on an offer by borisjohnson for temporary visas for 800 eu workers for abbatoirs. the financial times reports fears of a trade war if the uk government rejects the eu s latest plans for northern ireland. the guardian says doctors leaders fear many gps could leave the profession as a result of the government s plan to increase face to face appointments. the express looks at a study of people who take statins saying there may be a link with a reduc
bring this up to date on what we know about the events surrounding this assassination. we know about the events surrounding this assassination. know about the events surrounding this assassination. we know that at least three persons this assassination. we know that at least three persons attempted - least three persons attempted against the life of fernando villavicencio. we know one is also dead. we know the candidate was in the meeting in quito, the capital of the meeting in quito, the capital of the country, and when he left the meeting, he was killed. obviously, that was really serious news for all the candidates, they are all concerned about what happened. we have criminal political violence in ecuador before but this is something completely new. a candidate for the presidency killed in the middle of a campaign. it is presidency killed in the middle of a cam-min, , , presidency killed in the middle of a cam-cain. , i, campaign. it is absolutely shocking, isn t it? m
tonight bringing us the context are amanda renteria, hillary clinton s former national political director and tom peck, political sketch writer at the independent. exactly 20 years ago today, us forces, with the uk and other allies, invaded iraq. the stated aim to rid the country s dictator saddam hussein of his weapons of mass destruction weapons that in the end were never found. it was part of the us s war on terror , started by president george w bush after the terrorist attacks of september 11th, 2001. let s remind ourselves those first moments of the war. on this day in 2003, the first raids were on the capital baghdad it was called shock and awe . it took the us just over a month to defeat iraqi forces and saddam hussain s regime collapsed. president bush declared iraq to be free. but rather than an end to conflict, it was the beginning of many years of bloodshed for iraq and the wider region. the failure to plan for the aftermath of the invasion led, in part, t
seven months of disruption for the public before they agreed to get into a room, so the hope is that the lesson can be working with trade unions can deliver acceptable results to trade union members but also ones that work for the majority of the workforce and the government. let s move forwards and hope the next pay round is not as mired in difficulty. ijust i just heard from ijust heard from somewhere on a picket line in kent from the union unite, and we also heard that the rcn might be re balloting their members. do you have a message for the other nhs staff workers? i think it s important that all trade unions, we are all part of collective structures as well as individual trade unions, and that on our part, we need to acknowledge that it our part, we need to acknowledge thatitis our part, we need to acknowledge that it is not a unanimous position. i do struggle to remember a time when we have had unanimous positions on the staff side. it is very, very rare that you get s
departments, and to make inroads into the backlog of care that built up into the backlog of care that built up and was building up before covid and built up a lot more during covid. that balancing act, meeting demand and making inroads into the backlog, is a tough thing to do it the best of times, it is impossible to do when you are losing around half your medical staff. so there is no question that the targets we have set for ourselves, the aims we have got to reduce those waiting lists are going to be dented by this and thatis are going to be dented by this and that is a real pity. because we had been making progress, we had got to the stage at the end of march where we massively reduced almost to zero the number of people waiting more than 18 months for example for a procedure. so it is kind of heartbreaking if you have been a leader in the health service, anyone in the health service, and you have got those waiting this down, you have got, achieve the balancing act and lo