penny mordaunt has less than an hour now to make that 100 threshold. her team say this lunchtime that it s going down to the wire and it s extremely close. we ll bring you that announcement at 2 o clock live in our specially extended coverage programme this afternoon. also this lunchtime. western allies denounce a russian claim that ukraine could use a dirty bomb there are fears the kremlin might use it as a pretext to escalate the war. phosphate pollution of rivers threatens the building of tens of thousands of new homes. and he s back in the tardis david tennant travels through time once again to return as dr who. and stay with us here on the bbc news channel 4 continuing coverage and analysis from our team of correspondents in the uk and around the world. good afternoon. within the next hour or so, we could know who is britain s next prime minister. at two o clock, norminations close in the conservative party leadership race. rishi sunak has a commanding lead, with 192
search nursing careers . staff shortages are one of the most pressing problems facing the health service and the next prime minister. more than one in ten nursing jobs are currently unfilled in england, with big gaps in other roles. it comes as unions across the health service start to ballot members over pay and working conditions. this morning, 15,000 ambulance service staff in england and wales have begun voting on possible strike action, though that would not affect emergency call outs. without significant increases in pay, nhs workers and ambulance workers will continue to leave the service for higher paid jobs elsewhere. they can t continue working under the extreme pressures that they are doing. this is more than just about pay this is about patient safety and standards, as well. siren wails last week, the scottish government raised its pay offer to health staff. unions now say they will consider it. all this as the nhs is juggling other pressures. waiting lists for
instructing residents to evacuate as the hostilities resume. more than 170 people have been killed, say hamas, in the first 12 hours of the bombardment. we will get the response of the israeli government tonight and why the negotiations have collapsed. also tonight, charles iii addresses the cop summit in dubai wearing a tie sporting greek flags. and expelled from the us house of representatives, only the sixth member in history to be thrown out. good evening. the us secretary of state antony blinken says the seven day truce in gaza came to an end because hamas reneged on commitments it had made. the idf would resumed bombing this morning and has struck more than 200 targets in the territory. the hamas run health ministry says 170 people were killed. palestinian aid agencies say the new offensive will be disastrous for the 1.5 million people already displaced. this was a map published by the israeli military showing the evacuation zones in the gaza strip. the map, labelled in
for ukraine, this is a disinformation campaign by russia. after accusing ukraine of planning to attack a major dam, moscow now says kyiv is preparing to use a dirty bomb. this could be a conventional bomb laced with radioactive material. russia has not offered any evidence, and the claims were dismissed by ukraine s western partners as lies and falsehoods. here in kyiv, president zelensky had a warning. translation: everyone - understands everything well. the membership have their say. and i agree. there is a contradiction in this, but to exclude the membership of the party is fundamentally wrong. i came up in the conservative party through leaflet dropping, knocking on doors and i know what is is like to be an ordinary member of the