falling to civil servants, and elected officials to decide how northern ireland can balance his books and in a recent budget published by the government in london, there are cuts on the table. so it s really down to senior officials in the light of the packed department of health and the department of health and the department for education who are going to have to decide exactly where cuts are made. officials think that on the whole, northern ireland is going to have to find savings of about £800 million over the next financial year. so what they head of the northern ireland civil service is going to want to talk to politicians about is to get their take on this and if there is going to be a restoration of the devolved government, she would also want to know where politicians were planning on taking policies for the departments that are facing these financial pressures and many pundits and commentators certainly think that after the elections for the local councils which we
believed there was a danger to his life. he said much more working with the danger to pakistani democracy. we will have more from pakistan on that last headline in just a we will have more from pakistan on that last headline injust a moment but let s head to the bbc sport centre and ran at the spot the day. olly foster is therefore is. come over to you. many thanks. matt cavendish says he has lived an absolute dream for over 25 doctor mark cavendish says he s has lived an absolute dream for over 25 years as a professioinal cyclist. he is going to retire at the end of the season he is currently competing in the giro d italia, but it s a rest day and he made his announcement earlier today. he s won a world championship on the road and two on the track..and has also been commonwelath cahmpion. but he s most famous for his tour de france stage wins. he shares the record of 3a with eddie merckx. here s bbc sports drew savage the bike has given me opportunities to see the world, me
the dutch foreign minister has said the training of ukrainian pilots on f 16 fighter pilots on f 16fighterjets should start sooner rather than later. the remark comes after the us president joe biden support for the joint ally training programme. you may remember, on friday president biden said he will support delivery of fighterjets to ukraine by allowing western allies to supply them. in the last few hours russia s ambassador to the us has responded. he questions how effective this will be. he said. there is no infrastructure for the operation of the f16 in ukraine and the needed number of pilots and maintenance personnel, is not there either. he also said. any ukrainian strike on crimea would be considered a strike on russia. it is important that the us be fully aware of the russian response . second important update to bring you. these conflicting claims about who controls what in the eastern city of bakhmut. ukraine s deputy defence minister says, its troops are sti
king of the bungle leads the metro, as matt hancock is accused of cashing in on covid by appearing on hit show i m a celebrity, get me out of here. by appearing on hit show i m the daily mail says hancock faces uproar from voters and his party. the daily star says, you ve gotta feel sorry for the bugs. the front page of the i headlines the new £880 hike to mortgage bills in the uk. the financial times leads on the pressure on the major oil companies to help ease the cost of living crisis. let us begin and let me turn to the son, jessica. i know you re reporting on matt hancock for the guardian. so many papers are leading on that, with questions by others. this really is the matt hancock exclusive, talking about why he s taken perhaps this surprising choice to be part of i m a celebrity, get me out of here. to be part of i m a celebrity, get me out of here. i think one of the amazin: me out of here. i think one of the amazing things me out of here. i think one of the a
security . we will have more on that later myanmar is a country in the grip of a war largely forgotten, by the outside world. and today we have a special report from the frontline. rebel forces there are fighting an intense battle against the military regime. in the past seven months, a country wide insurgency has made gains conquering large swathes of territory. the fighters, among them a group known as kndf, are now presenting the myanmar military with the biggest threat to its rule in years. press freedom in the country is restricted, hundreds ofjournalists have beenjailed, and getting into myanmar to report first hand is tough. but a bbc team has managed. our correspondent quentin sommerville spent a month with the rebels at theirjungle bases and on the frontline. a revolution is rising across myanmar. hidden from the world by its remoteness. few countries are more isolated, few conflicts more unseen. we spent a month with the insurgents on back roads and jungle tracks in