We start here in the uk, where the Chancellor Rachel reeves says the government will make sure the Sums Add Up before agreeing to fund a recommended 5. 5 Pay Increase to teachers and nhs staff. The above Inflation Rise has been recommended by independent Pay Review bodies. Heres our political correspondent tony bonsignore. Its a decision that will affect millions of teachers and nhs workers whether to accept the independent recommendation of Pay Review bodies and give them a Pay Rise of 5. 5 , of teachers and nhs workers whether to accept the independent recommendation of Pay Review bodies and give them a Pay Rise of 5. 5 , or offer a more modest Increase And Risk disappointing millions of labour voters, as well as potentially more industrial action. Today, in Herfirst Big Interview since the election, Rachel Reeves dropped a big hint that above Inflation Rises for Public Sector workers are on the way. We also know that there is a cost to not settling, a cost of further industrial acti
Stunned and humiliated. Their contract with australia has been simply binned. Ordered back home by President Macron, the french ambassador to canberra was as polite as he could be about the reasons for frances anger. I think this has been a huge mistake. A very, very bad handling of the partnership because it was not a contract. It was a partnership. This evening, the Foreign Minister, jean yves Le Drian, spoke again on national television. Translation there has been lying, duplicity, a major Breach Of Trust and contempt. This will not do. Things are not going well between us. It means there is a crisis. I am with the president of france and that makes me feel better. Just a few months ago, it was all smiles at the G7 Summit in cornwall between president s biden and macron, and all talk of cooperation and shared challenges. But behind the scenes, the french are convinced that the three english speaking nations were hatching the plan to cut them out. The fallout is potentially very grea
Dozens of universities have set up Pop Up Clinics and Walk In Centres for students to receive covid vaccines, as the new academic year begins. Students who are not yet vaccinated, are being urged to getjabs during freshers week. Megan paterson has the details. A new addition to the usual freshers week festivities at Oxford Brookes University Pop Up Clinics and grab a Jab Drop ins, all aimed at encouraging as many students as possible to get vaccinated, amid some concern about covid spread in young people. We are aware just before the summer there was quite a high increase in Covid Infection rates amongst the 18 24 year olds, so we re really keen to try and sort of capture them just as they re coming back to university, to make sure in the environment they live in maybe in shared houses that we minimise the spread and the transmission of covid as much as possible. Obviously we want people to really enjoy their University Terms and so it s to really make it possible for them to do that.
In france for not having a Covid 19 vaccine before a set deadline. And then mike is proposing to ban prisoners serving Life Sentences from having romantic relationships. This is to discourage groupies. We will hearfrom the this is to discourage groupies. We will hear from the group who broke the story in copenhagen copenhagen. China has hit out at a new Security And Defence pact between the us, Britain And Australia accusing the trio of playing geopolitical games. Last night us president Joe Biden, british prime Minister Borisjohnson and australiam prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a new partnership called aukus. Were told the aim is to strenghten security in the Indo Pacific , many see it as a way of countering chinas growing influence. Heres how borisjohnson sold it in parliament. It amounts to a new pillar of our strategy by demonstrating british let me take a left to the State Department where Defence Secretary our meeting their australian counterparts and We Can listen in.
Hello and welcome. Boris johnson has today set out his Autumn And Winter plan to deal with covid infections in england the Prime Minister is desperate to avoid any more lockdowns, the country can ill afford it but he Cant Rule one out. And so what he outlined today was plan a and Plan B should the numbers this winter overwhelm the national Health Service. To use the analogy of the deputy chief medical officer, Mrjohnson Thinsk it is much better to attach Guy Ropes to the tent now, than to try and fit them retrospectively once the storm is upon us. So to that end, there will be Booster Vaccinations for the over 50s, one dose of vaccine for the 12 15 year olds, and its highly likely they will mandate vaccines for all health workers. Heres our deputy political Editor Vicki young. Adapting to seasonal change means thinking and planning ahead, especially in a pandemic. Some things ministers cant control, but the government needs to be ready for the unexpected. Borisjohnson swept away most c