Well hear from teachers who say parents have made their lives a misery. Hello and welcome to the programme. Were live until 11am. Throughout the programme well bring you the latest Breaking News and developing stories and, as always, keen to hear from you. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning. Our top story today. Labour has promised to increase pay for nhs staff and scrap tuition fees for Student Nurses if it wins the General Election. The party says it will abolish the current cap for staff in england which limits pay increases to 1 . Labour said the policies would help Address Staffing Shortages in england that had become a threat to patients. Our political guru norman smith is in westminster for us now. Hi norman, good morning. So, how much will this pay rise be for nhs staff . Well, labour are saying they wa nt staff . Well, labour are saying they want people in the nhs to get a pay rise in line with the cost of living. So that means going up, i guess
Hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. She Wont Take Part in a televised Leaders Debate. If she wont, then he wont. Will the bbc do more to make a head to head happen . And are the green party being given a fair share of airtime on the bbcs special election programmes. There has been a bit of a phoney war feel to the Election Campaign so far. Before the parties began publishing their manifestos. Many questions had been fobbed off with this answer, given to Laura Kuenssberg byJeremy Corbyn on tuesday. Well, you will have to wait for the manifesto for the details. You were expecting that answer. Those manifestos will be officially unveiled next week, but on wednesday night we got a Sneak Preview of what labours might contain. Somehow, an earlier version had ended up in the hands of chris mason. I cant claim ive read it all, but here it is. Stamped right through the middle of the document, about 20,000 words in total, draft, confidential. In other words, they hadnt quite an
The show and it is just wonderful to have all of this support. I really thank everybody for it. That is the winner of masterchef, 2017. Now we can see what the Weather Forecast is holding for us. Im so looking forward to my salad, you have no idea. I will still be hungry afterwards. We have a mixed bag of weather, we have some low cloud and damp conditions across Northern Ireland, but the sunshine has been developing more widely. In the south west and across wales. The sunshine will move into england and wales. The rain is transferring north through Northern Ireland into scotla nd north through Northern Ireland into scotland where we have a few showers and the wet weather will move north through scotland. Some thundery showers possible in the highlands. Cool and damp to enter the afternoon, but improving in northern england. Across Northern Ireland it will brighten up briefly and left those temperatures ahead of the showers which arrive in the evening. That is knocking on the door of c
The show and it is just wonderful to have all of this support. I really thank everybody for it. That is the winner of masterchef, 2017. Now we can see what the Weather Forecast is holding for us. Im so looking forward to my salad, you have no idea. I will still be hungry afterwards. We have a mixed bag of weather, we have some low cloud and damp conditions across Northern Ireland, but the sunshine has been developing more widely. In the south west and across wales. The sunshine will move into england and wales. The rain is transferring north through Northern Ireland into scotla nd north through Northern Ireland into scotland where we have a few showers and the wet weather will move north through scotland. Some thundery showers possible in the highlands. Cool and damp to enter the afternoon, but improving in northern england. Across Northern Ireland it will brighten up briefly and left those temperatures ahead of the showers which arrive in the evening. That is knocking on the door of c
assess the claims of misinformation. thank you so much for coming on. so they re fretting about the idea that our social media platforms or media itself could be flooded with misinformation about, say, covid. are you concerned about that? i m concerned that we re having this conversation in thedown of america. right. exactly. it used to be that we all understood that we had a 1st amendment. it came 1st because everything else depends on it. and you re not supposed to create restrictions or chill speech. the news media used to be the people who understood best that you re supposed to allow for even an unpopular discussion, even crown v discussions. i remember that in america we used to talk about true or untrue. something was either a fact or it was not a fact. what s so orwellian about this discourse about misinformation and disinformation and i think even came up with