Who celebrates her 100th birthday. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Home Care Companies say they are in crisis because they cant recruit enough staff to meet the growing demand. Research commissioned by the bbcs panorama suggests nearly1 in 4 in the past three months alone. Sian lloyd reports. Good morning amanda hfipeivelliefifieififitheflc s 800,000 home care workers. Today, she is with former Teacher William williams, who has multiple sclerosis. Amanda is paid £7. 55 an hour, just above the National Living wage and, like many care workers, struggles to make ends meet. Are not guaranteed. I did look into buying a house four years ago, but because i didnt have a contract they wouldnt allow me to buy l. 7,,. ,l, w llj, its hard. It is hard. Amanda is one of 200 staff employed by a family run company near bangor. Vacancies and is struggling to take on new clients. Last year, the company stopped providing care for one local council, conwy, and handed back the contract. P
Fund hate preachers. Well meet again, dont know where, dont know when. And its a very happy birthday for dame vera lynn, in a moment it will be time for sportsday, but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. The prime minister, hasrannounggg well be joined by the mp john redwood, a vocal campaigner for brexit, to ask what he wants from theresa mays negotiations with the eu. Possible links between russia and Donald Trumps white house campaign, our correspondent katty kay will have the latest reaction from washington in tonights 100 days programme. Pit mac and the five frontrunners in the race to be the next french president go head to head tonight in a Television Debate you will a Television Debate and you will hear the latest from our correspondent in paris and also, the five frontrunners. Thats all ahead on bbc news. Hew et] de; hews, ll 5 77 7 7 the main headlines this evening. 34 year old Jermain Defoe sets his sights on a dream place England Rugby urrionhea
Time for reporters. Welcome to reporters. Im philippa thomas. From here in the worlds news room, we send our correspondents to bring you the best stories from across the world. In this weeks programme. Football on the front line. Richard conway reports on syrias world cup dreams, and asks whether soccer can help to unite a country at war. Football coming back to syria provides the people with a chance to forget about their worries. At least for 90 minutes. The plight of the people of western mosul. Orla guerin reports from the camps in iraq, struggling to feed up to 500,000 survivors of the so called islamic state. They say they have no running water, no electricity, no access to medical supplies, and people in the queue are really afraid that the food is going to run out before they have been able to get some. Returning to crimea, after three years. Steve rosenberg finds out how people feel about russian rule and sanctions. Moscow insists that most of the people who live here are happ
Im philippa thomas. From here in the worlds newsroom, we send our correspondents to bring you the best stories from across the world. In this weeks programme. Football on the front line. Richard conway reports on syrias world cup dreams, and asks whether soccer can help to unite a country at war. Football coming back to syria provides the people with a chance to forget about their worries. At least for 90 minutes. The plight of the people of western mosul. Orla guerin reports from the camps in iraq, struggling to feed up to 500,000 survivors of the so called islamic state. They say they have no running water, no electricity, no access to medical supplies, and people in the queue are really afraid that the food is going to run out before they have been able to get some. Returning to crimea after three years after Vladimir Putin annexed the region. Steve rosenberg finds out how people feel about russian rule and sanctions. Moscow insists that most of the people who live here are happy to