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Welcome to bbc news. The Public Sector pay cap a measure thats been at the heart of austerity policies for seven years is to be scrapped. The cap currently limits pay increases to just 1 . But this year, prison officers will get a rise of 1. 7 and Police Officers will get an increase of 1 plus a further 1 bonus. Millions of other workers will have to wait till next year to see if they too get a bigger rise. Trade unions have already called the pay rises for police and prison officers derisory. W...

Our Second Special report on the plight of Rohingya Refugees fleeing violence in myanmar now in camps in bangladesh. I think she wants to be that side of the camera. Tributes to sir peter hall, one of the giants of british theatre, whos died at the age of 86. And the experts wonder whether apples new iphone design can replicate the huge success of the past. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news a tough night for celtic, as they faced paris Saint Germains formidable forward line on the Opening N...

And the clean up efforts after Hurricane Irma have just begun. In the caribbean, which was hit last week, some areas still need food and basic supplies. In the British Virgin islands, there has been criticism over the uk governments slow response but 1,000 british troops are now there helping with the relief effort. 0ur correspondent laura bicker has been to the Remote Island ofjost van dyke in the British Virgin islands and sent this report. The idyllic shores and secluded bays ofjost van dyke ...

The worst affected areas are in the caribbean where 17,000 people desperately need shelter, with some still short of food and drinking water. Its believed that 37 people were killed on the islands. Nick bryant reports from one of those territories, the turks and caicos. This church was supposed to protect people from irma, a sanctuary from the storm. Butjust hours before the hurricane hit, the plan changed. People went elsewhere, and just as well. Like many buildings here, it was destroyed. In t...

The worst affected areas are in the caribbean where 17,000 people desperately need shelter, with some still short of food and drinking water. Its believed that 37 people were killed on the islands. Nick bryant reports from one of those territories, the turks and caicos. This church was supposed to protect people from irma, a sanctuary from the storm. Butjust hours before the hurricane hit, the plan changed. People went elsewhere, and just as well. Like many buildings here, it was destroyed. In t...

It is that logic that perhaps explains why there are now only 42,000 staff in the National Offender Management Service in england and wales, while there were 19,000 back in 2010. But the logic of cutting prisons has perhaps reached a limit. The pressure of fewer staff in overcrowded jails has seen violence rise towards staff, other prisoners or in the form of self harm. Bad things are happening in ourjails, and its no surprise the president of the Prison Governors Association has written an open...

I think i just got an f from you actually. applause Margaret Atwood welcome. Thank you. Very nice to have you here. Lovely to be here. So interested in this new book, congratulations on it. May i say nobody does dystopian like you do dystopian. laughs is that a compliment . Oh my god its the biggest compliment in the world. I mean the world that youve created in this book will come back to the handmaids tale at some point here soon reminiscent to my mind of the dystopia in that book. But i love ...

Weather. Were talking about warm up in october. It happens every now and then but now we have period of maybe record High Temperatures, in the 80s, so if you like warm temperatures you will like this week. No big storms coming at us, good weather to head outside, enjoy some mid fall, weather, and still chilly this morning, waking up to some temperatures in the 40s, even some 30s. We have some fog. Live today we will see wrapped warm up in the 70es a live look outside, right the now all quiet in ...

Applause Margaret Atwood welcome. Thank you. Very nice to have you here. Lovely to be here. So interested in this new book, congratulations on it. May i say nobody does dystopian like you do dystopian. laughs is that a compliment . Oh my god its the biggest compliment in the world. I mean the world that youve created in this book will come back to the handmaids tale at some point here soon reminiscent to my mind of the dystopia in that book. But i love the plot of this story, i love the characte...

Applause Margaret Atwood welcome. Thank you. Very nice to have you here. Lovely to be here. So interested in this new book, congratulations on it. May i say nobody does dystopian like you do dystopian. laughs is that a compliment . Oh my god its the biggest compliment in the world. I mean the world that youve created in this book will come back to the handmaids tale at some point here soon reminiscent to my mind of the dystopia in that book. But i love the plot of this story, i love the characte...