for england s six nations opener after being punished for a dangerous tackle in club rugby on friday. good afternoon. ambulance workers in england and wales are striking over pay for a second time. managers are warning the impact is likely to be worse than last month s stoppage, because this time call handlers are also on strike. the prime minister has said it s terrifying that people don t know what will happen if they call 999. but ambulance staff have said they will leave picket lines to respond to all category one emergency calls where there s a threat to life, such as a heart attack. our health correspondent dominic hughes is in manchester, dominic. good afternoon. picket lines like this one in manchester are now in place outside ambulance stations across almost all of england and wales. the strike involves around 20,000 workers from the ambulance service. paramedics and also call handling staff. principally the strike is over pay. the unions say an offer of 4.75% is
in ukraine a russian solider pleads guilty to killing an unarmed civilian in the first war crimes trial of the conflict. we have a special report on the taliban s vice and virtue enforcers who have returned to the streets of cable. tonight with the context, former conservative ministerjustine greening and democratic strategist mary ann marsh. hello. welcome to the programme. inflation has hit a ao year high. figures out today showed the rate at which prices are rising jumped 9% in the 12 months to april, up from 7% in march. that is driven by the cost of household energy that rose on average £700 last month. and for millions of people wages are not keeping up. the average pay rise excluding bonuses in the three months to march was 4.2%, which meant given the rate of inflation british workers suffered a fifth consecutive cut to real term wages. the inflationary problems are not unique to the uk, farfrom it, but uk now has the highest rate of inflation of any g7 country an