wednesday in parliament. hello there, welcome to wednesday in parliament. coming up, head of an emergency meeting of eu leaders should decide a brexit extension, theresa may faces calls to change truck. i accept that she has run out of road, i ve accepted that the only choice now is to put this back to the people. but the prime minister projects that appeal. my position on the second referendum, the government s position has not changed was not the house has rejected a second recommended two times one question is whether the middle of the brexit uncertainty is the right time to talk about it at all. each day is worse than the last. could it be thought of as a good use of our time to backslapping each other on the uk 50 years as a nuclear power. there is a solution for those worried that nearly released uk passports don t have the words european union on the front cover. could you consider getting the home office to produce disposable appeal of stickers for those who are conc
relations lawyer. also this afternoon. there were more excess deaths than usual in the uk last year. the highest number outside the covid pandemic in half a century. some shops open at midnight to meet demand for prince harry s heavily trailed autobiography, which is now on sale. and a setback, not a roadblock. the team behind a uk space mission which failed to launch say they will keep on trying. and this picture has been causing something of a stir on social media today, because someone or something is missing. we will be revealing all. good afternoon. in the last few minutes, the government has been introducing draft legislation to limit future industrial action in the public sector. the bill would cover health, fire and railway workers. ministers say it would introduce a minimum level of service. unions have reacted angrily to the proposals, which they say potentially are undemocratic and unworkable, and would limit the right to strike. the business secretary grant shapps
here in the uk, 2022 saw the highest number of excess deaths outside the covid pandemic in half a century. and france tries again to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. it s an unpopular reform that didn t go well last time it tried. we ll be live in paris. we start in ukraine. president volodymyr zelensky has said ukraine s army is facing an extremely difficult situation as fighting continues in the eastern donbas region. the focus is the salt mining town of soledar. the uk defence ministry says it s likely that russian forces including wagner group mercenaries now control most of the town. we ll be taking a look at why it s become central to this conflict. but first, here s president zelensky. translation: and what did russia want to win there? i everything is completely destroyed. there was almost no life left. thousands of their people are gone, the whole land in soledar is covered with the corpses of the invaders and scarred from the strikes. this is what madness loo
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