Now the union seems to have been reassured that everythings back on the table. The finer detail has to be worked out, but im very assured by the prime ministers intervention, and we certainly will as we have always said we will put our plans on the table, they can put their plans on the table, but im confident that we will come out with a fair pay settlement for our nursing staff. Neither side will say what numbers will be discussed or what might be offered for the next financial year. In the meantime, nhs leaders are relieved that escalated Strike Action has been called off. Its welcome news, first and foremost because it averts next weeks planned Strike Action which would have spelled major disruption for patient care. So, leaders across the nhs will be relieved this evening that talks will commence. The Scottish Government meanwhile has offered a 14 pay deal to Health Unions over two years. The rcn says it will recommend this to members. In wales, an offer around 7 this year is bein
ironically, putin s denial of ukraine s identity has strengthened what he set out to destroy. my guest is olesya khromeychuk. writer, historian and sister of a fallen ukrainian soldier. even now, do ukraine s allies understand what the stakes really are in this war? olesya khromeychuk, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for inviting me, stephen. it s a great pleasure to have you in this studio in london. and you live in london. you re the director of the ukrainian institute here in london. you re an historian of ukraine and eastern europe. and yet, i am sure that a lot of your mind is in ukraine. what kind of a distance do you keep from the daily reality of your homeland being at war? perhaps only physical distance, i suppose. the distance that, i suppose, would take 2a hours or so to cross, because at the moment we can t fly to ukraine any more, and it takes about 2k hours to get to my hometown now, which the journey that usually would take me 2.5 hours to fly to my home
mexico s former security chief is found guilty of taking bribes in return for helping drug dealers. and empty food shelves in the uk why are some supermarkets having to limit sales of fruit and veg? live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. we have a tale of two presidents for you this hour from the us and russia. we ll get to the american presidentjoe biden in a moment but first russian leader vladimir putin. he s announced he s suspending russian participation in the last major nuclear arms control agreement with the us. in his two hour state of the nation address, mr putin accused the west of starting the war in ukraine and seeking to destroy russia in a global confrontation. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. the world according to vladimir putin feels like a parallel universe. who started the war in ukraine? not russia, he says. translation: responsibility for fuelling the ukrainian - conflict, for i
carrying out more searches of the rubble after another earthquake on monday, just two weeks after two massive quakes devastated the region. buildings weakened by those first tremors finally collapsed. the 6.4 magnitude quake struck close to the border with syria. now on bbc news, click. this week, it s game on in helsinki. a cityjust the size of glasgow that houses some of the most innovative, influential and successful mobile games companies in the world. we re going wild in the scottish town that s turning your phone into a one stop tourism shop. it turns visiting - a city into a game. absolutely. look out, alasdair! there s a lion on the loose! and we re crossing the multiverse to see the bedroom artist behind the bafta nominated everything everywhere all at once. there s something very big and bright going on in north london. come on in and we ll show you. this is an exhibition called luyang netineti. chinese multimedia artist luyang takes us on a journey through their we
and paying much of it out to shareholders, should big oil be pumping it back into exploration, or even into the great energy transition? i will be discussing all of that with these two. president of energy policy research foundation, and senior director of energy campaigns for the sierra club. also, your clothes, food, tv, much of the energy that you use, all brought to you by a ship. so i will be taking the pulse of the industry with the big boss at the helm of the world s biggest shipping company. wherever you are watching, hello, and welcome to the show. 2022 was a tough year for the global economy. just as we began to see the green shoots of recovery from the covid pandemic, russian tanks rolled into ukraine, throwing europe into armed conflict for the first time in over two decades. it s a strategic hotspot, a country with close links to the east and the west, and essentially a buffer zone between russia and its nato adversaries to the west. and because of western sancti