hello, wlecome to the programne, i m frankie mccamley. let s start with the fast moving developments in thailand. the parliament in bangkok has voted for the candidate of the pheu thai party, srettha thavisin, to be the next prime minister. mr srettha won a majority of votes in a joint session of the elected lower house and unelected senate. he heads a coalition which includes conservative, military aligned parties which have previously opposed pheu thai. the vote coincided with the return from 15 year exile of former prime minister thaksin shinawatra. he s the founder and main funder of pheu thai. hours after his return he was taken to prison for corruption. mr thaksin has long argued that the charges levelled against him were politically motivated. it s widely believed that a deal has been agreed that will allow mr thaksin to serve only a short portion of his eight year sentence. straight to bangkok. our south east asia correspondent jonathan head is there. jonathan, first
stars of the silver screen are getting ready for the baftas later tonight. we ll look at which films might take home the awards. good morning. we are looking at a brighter day, with a few more cloudbreak surround, so some sunny spells developing for many. probably quite a nice sunrise for some of you. in scotland we have to get cloud with rain on the way and here it is going to turn progressively windier, with severe gales on the way, tonight across the north. more on but a bit later on. it s sunday, the 19th of february. our main story: the british medical association says the government is standing on the precipice of a historic mistake by failing to stop strike action in the nhs. 16,000 junior doctors in england are being balloted over industrial action. that vote closes tomorrow, when a large number of ambulance workers in england and wales will also walk out. vincent mcaviney has the latest. escalating strikes across the nhs. ambulance workers in england, wales and nor
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further disruption is expected, and some flights diverted to other airports. it comes at the start of the busy summer holiday season. philip banfield was among the passengers who were stranded at the airport. so i now have an update for you that we are now stuck airside. our aer lingus plane has taken off from manchester on time without any passengers able to get on the plane. and of course, that leaves an enormous number of passengers now stranded at manchester airport wondering how they are going to continue their onward journeys. but we ll find a way. earlier we heard from nikita pearson, a fitness instructor stuck at manchester airport waiting to board his flight to istanbul. we got to the airport at about eight o clock in the morning and you could see people sat outside on luggage. we didn t think anything of it. we got the lift to go upstairs to terminal one and you couldn t even get out of the lift. you had to trample over people to get out of the lift and then you jus