welcome to bbc news. 4 single mothers have won a highly significant high court challenge to the universal credit system, after saying they re struggling financially because of the way their payments are calculated. the work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, has now admitted that the controversial new benefits system is not as effective or as compassionate as it should be. today, she unveiled a raft of changes to the system, which rolls 6 benefits into one. she s scrapped plans to cap benefits for households with more than 2 children born before april 2017. private landlords will be able to ask for rent to be paid to them directly from the government, to try to cut down on the number of claimants being evicted for not paying their rent. and a new system will be tested, instead of receiving payments once a month, new claimants will be paid more frequently. our social affairs correspondent, michael buchanan, reports. what has it meant not to have any money? no food, no hea
as the cause of her death. nine out of ten people are not eating enough fibre every day despite the fact that it can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes. music and he was homeless at the age 01:14 now the rapper octavian has turned his life around and is following in the footsteps of adele and sam smith. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news the leeds manager marcelo bielsa admits sending a spy to derby s training ground ahead of their championship match tonight. good evening. the work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, has admitted that the controversial new benefits system, universal credit, is not as effective or as compassionate as it should be. today, she unveiled a raft of changes to the system, which rolls six benefits into one. she has scrapped plans to cap benefits for households with more than two children born before april 2017. private landlords will be able to ask for rent to be paid to them directly from the government to try to cut down o
four single mothers have won a highly significant high court challenge to the universal credit system, after saying they are struggling financially because of the way their payments are calculated. the work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, has now admitted that the controversial new benefits system universal credit is not as effective or as compassionate as it should be. today she unveiled a raft of changes to the system, which rolls six benefits into one. she has scrapped plans to cap benefits for households with more than two children born before april 2017. private landlords will be able to ask for rent to be paid to them directly from the government, to try to cut down on the number of claimants being evicted for not paying their rent, and a new system will be tested out. instead of receiving payments once a month, new claimants will be paid more frequently. 0ur social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports. it s almost as if we re made to feel bad that we are
employees posted payslips showing they hadn t received a single dollar. a lot of things are working out well. to break the political deadlock, this billionaire president has warned he will declare a national emergency. but he is not ready to take that extraordinary step yet. it s the easy way out. but congress should do this. this is too simple, it s too basic, and congress should do this. if they can t do it, if at some point theyjust can t do it this is a is minute meeting. if they can t do it, i will declare a national emergency. invoking emergency powers could end the shutdown, because it would allow congress to pass spending bills without funding for the wall, that democrats and republicans could both support. but the trump white house would be violating the norms of us government by spending the money on the barrier without congressional approval. this constitutional showdown would inevitably be settled in the courts. but, in the meantime, federal employees could retu
alongside simon mayo and steve wright. and for more than 20 years, she was the weather presenter for north west tonight. her colleague dave guest looks back at her life. weather fronts will be starting. weather presenters must remain cool and calm whatever is thrown at them and dianne oxberry was the coolest of them all. this chart might be the one you like. you can see that the warm air is moving out of the way. this is the comedian, peter kay, making an unexpected appearance during one of her forecasts on the bbc‘s north west tonight programme. god love dianne oxberry. god love her. you ve made it sunshine for everybody. i have. for once. she just had such a great rapport with the public and they loved her. everywhere you went, people would say, is di coming? where s di? dianne oxberry began her broadcasting career with steve wright on radio 1 and she was a member of simon mayo s posse on the radio 1 breakfast show. there was a spark in the studio when she was there,