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an nhs strike ballot gets underway nurses, paramedics and hospital porters in england, wales and northern ireland vote in their dispute over pay. and, the annual poppy appeal is launched by the royal british legion, in the run up to armistice day. and coming up on the bbc news channel. ian poulter responds to rory mcilroy s recent criticism, saying he hasn t betrayed anyone by being involved with the liv golf series. making £8.2 billion betweenjuly and september. that s more than double what it made in the same period last year, although it s a slowdown from the second quarter of this year when it announced record figures. high oil and gas prices, and the war in ukraine, have all fed in to the increase. the figures have prompted calls for the tax on energy firms profits to be raised, to help people with bills. we ll have more on that in a moment, but first this report from our business correspondent, marc ashdown. our energy pain is shower s game. while we ve all been f ....
Sometime this Yearfrom European donor countries and ukrainian pilots are currently being trained. Mr zelensky also said the military was still short of manpower and russia could increase its attacks in ukraines north east following its recent gains near the city of kharkiv. Translation we need to staff the reserve. There are a serious number of brigrades which a large number of them are empty. We need to do this so the guys can have a normal rotation, then their morale will be improved. Our ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse outlined how desperate this need is for air defences. Well, he always plonks air defences at the top of his wish list, thats been the case for the last year or so, because of two things russia has continued to launch Missile Attacks on cities across ukraine, but russia has become more domin ....
british workers to plug skills gaps in the job market and strengthen anti exploitation laws. meanwhile, the conservatives have promised to build 100 new gp surgeries in england and boost the number of available appointments if they win the election. and in the coming hours, john swinney, leader of the scottish national party, will formally launch the party s campaign, where he ll argue independence offers the country a better future . earlier, i discussed this week s general election campaigning with anthony pickles, former chief of staff to the conservatives in wales and sonia sodha, observer columnist and former adviser to ed miliband. i started by asking sonia sodha about the criticism labour has faced over its handling of diane abbott and if this is an indication that sir keir starmer is trying to push through his allies. i think it is a fair characterisation of what is happening. i think personally the diane abbott question, whether she was going to be allowed to ....
and this is america s late news, fox news @ night . breaking tonight, brand-new video of a california retail store manager fighting back against a shoplifter and wait until you hear the accused shoplifter start saying the manager is the one breaking the law. that manager who was not about to give in is live onset with us in minutes. and president biden s border crisis now overwhelming our nation s schools, costing taxpayers a bunch of money, costing our kids their education. plus this. i feel very confident that this is going to be a hard-fought race but when the chips are down the american people will show up just like those kids did 80 years ago. trace: democrats now comparing voting for joe biden to storming the beaches of normandy. but we begin with the alleged threat to democracy and the senior national correspondent kevin corke live in dc with more on that. good evening. reporter: good evening trace. former fbi deputy director says the intelligence communit ....
I can remember my mother lighting the gaslamp in the house. i can remember all of the things that we went through. reporter: recalling that more than 5700 died during d-day fighting, including his close friend and rifle partner who trained and served with him leading up to the invasion. also discussing his own injury and in a subsequent battle in the month of june 1944 were a machine gun bullet hit him near his throat. when i say we were tough, we were forced to be tougher. i hope they will be able to do something like our generation if it becomes necessary, and i see things on the edges that remind me of that period. reporter: on a personal note, people ask me what my most memorable interview was with a famous percent and it was without a doubt spending an entire morning with d-day veterans who recounted the day as young men when they pushed back the germans and changed the course of the war. trace: i talked to people on the 70 firth joe 75th ....