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at edinburgh zoo. and coming up on bbc news. manchester united s champions league hopes in the balance, with keeper onana in the spotlight after letting their lead slip at galatasaray. good afternoon. rail strikes by the rmt union are over for now. its members have voted to accept a pay deal, to end their year long dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions. they will get a backdated pay rise of 5%. it means the end of the union s mandate for more strikes until at least next spring. but another rail union aslef is pressing ahead with more industrial action starting tomorrow. here s our transport correspondent katy austin. it s been nearly a year and a half since the long running series of strikes on the railway began. commuters like these in west sussex have had to get used to it. if you want to go to work instead of being stuck at home, yeah, it disrupts normal everyday life 100%. i don t understand why there s so many. i haven t been able to go into work as freque ....
coming up, liverpool have to avoid defeat against an austrian side to guarantee getting out of the group stages of the europa league. they are top of their group ahead of the match at anfield. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the former health secretary matt hancock has told the covid inquiry that with the benefit of hindsight the uk should have locked down much sooner at the start of the pandemic. he said many, many lives could have been saved if the first lockdown had began three weeks earlier on the 2nd of march 2020. mr hancock also dismissed allegations from other colleagues that he had lied to them, and described what he called a toxic culture in government. 0ur political editor chris mason reports. one of the biggest names of the pandemic. the health secretary for england, matt hancock. the man in the middle on the television many nights, and the man who resigned for breaking the very rules he d helped draw up. today, his moment of account ....
these are life pictures in tel aviv because we are expecting at any moment now that antony blinken, the us secretary of state, to come and speak to the world media there as and when we see him approach the microphones we would be crossing straight back to tel aviv there. back to the middle east and the war between israel and hamas. the mother of two of the final child hostages still held hostage in gaza has spoken of her ordeal. 16 year old aisha and 18 year old bilal, both muslims from southern israel s bedouin community, remain in captivity after being taken by hamas with their father and older brother on october seventh. our correspondent anna foster reports from rahat, in the negev desert aisha still hasn t come home yet. each day, as more hostage children are released, her name has been missing from the list. so too her brother, bilal. it s been 55 days of waiting. this is the last picture naeema saw of her sons from hamas s media channels, held prisoner. in this ....
exit polls predict it will take as much as 34%, about 6% more than the left wing coalition new popular front. trailing in third is the centrist alliance of president emmanuel macron, withjust over 20%. national rally s leader marine le pen says macron s camp has been practically wiped out . here s what she told her supporters on sunday. translation: the people of france have thus - demonstrated unequivocally in this vote their desire to turn the page after seven years of the exercise of contemptuous, corrosive power. we thank the voters warmly and welcomed the result is a first step towards demonstrating a sign of confidence in us, which is an honour and an obligation. an estimated 65.5% of eligible voters cast ballots in the cast ballots first round of france s parliamentary election, according to polling company ipsos. that s the highest turnout in a french parliamentary vote since 1997. now, some party leaders are urging citizens to vote tactically in next week s se ....
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