Concerned parents, children and teachers are and i want to start by assuring them that the government is doing everything it can to fix this quickly and minimise the disruption to childrens education. We make no apology for acting decisively in the face of new information and let me provide the house with an update on where we are. Of the 22,000 schools in england, the vast, vast majority wont be affected. In fact, in two thirds of inspections of suspected schools, raac is not actually present. And to tackle the 1 of schools that have been affected so far, the 1 , we are assigning each of those schools a dedicated caseworker and providing extra funding to fix the problem. In the majority of cases, children will attend school as normal and the mitigations take typically just days or weeks to complete. We will do everything we can to help parents, support teachers, and get children back to Normal School life as quickly as possible. Lets listen to what the Leader Of The Labour Party had t
tom hanks tells us why a new exhibition is his passion project. when you get up just a little bit closer, it s quite stunning, that magnificent desolation, and in that, there is just such magnificence. and coming up on sporstday later in the hour on bbc news. australia make a brilliant start against south africa. we will have the latest. hello and welcome to the bbc news at one. we begin this lunchtime with a report from inside al shifa, the largest hospital in gaza, which has been at the cente of israeli operations over recent days. doctors there say the building has been without power and water. israel says the site was a key command centre for hamas and have mounted what it called a targeted operation against the group there. hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organisation by the uk, described the raid as a war crime. last night, the bbc, along with one us media network, was taken by the israeli army into a small part of the hospital to see weapons and other materia
after the markets opened despite raising their revenue forecasts as the chain saw a slowdown in purchases in october. they said customers are still getting used to higher interest rates. erin delmore is in new york for us. what do these figures tell us about what american consumers are thinking right now? what american consumers are thinking riaht now? ~ . ., , what american consumers are thinking riaht now? ~ . . , ., ., right now? walmart is warning that can she were right now? walmart is warning that can she were spending right now? walmart is warning that can she were spending could - right now? walmart is warning that can she were spending could be - can she were spending could be slower heading into the fourth corner and that contains the holiday shopping season. that is an area of discretionary spending for consumers where we have seen the effects of the economy take its toll, especially when we talk about high interest rates, persistent elevation, lowered saving
how tom hanks is hoping to take people on a virtualjourney to the moon with his latest project. good morning from a chilly blackpool. we have got blackpool power laid up behind us. on this weekend to strictly. he forecast todayis weekend to strictly. he forecast today is wet and windy in the south. that will clear east. most of us will have a dry day until more rain sweeps in from the west later. details throughout the programme. good morning. it s thursday, the 16th of november. the immigration minister, robertjenrick, says the government is in the final stages of negotiating a new treaty with rwanda, as it tries to revive its plan for the country to take asylum seekers sent from the uk. rishi sunak has also pledged to introduce emergency legislation into parliament, after the supreme court unanimously ruled yesterday that downing street s existing proposals were unlawful. graham satchell has this report. how do you stop the boats? the government s plan was to send asylum se