Good afternoon, and welcome to the Bbc News at one. Several major Trade Unions have appealed directly to Sir Keir Starmer to reverse the decision to take away the Winter Fuel Payment for millions of pensioners. The plan to make it means tested was announced shortly after the election, with both the prime Minister And Chancellor insisting its necessary, and the money needs to be spent elsewhere. But tomorrow some of the governments own mps plan to abstain from a Commons Vote on the change, rather than backing it. Our Employment Correspondent Zoe Conway has the latest. Trade unions are celebrating that the Labour Party is back. For Trade Unions are celebrating that the Labour Party is back. The Labour Party is back. For the first time in the Labour Party is back. For the first time in 15 the Labour Party is back. For the first time in 15 years the Labour Party is back. For the first time in 15 years under the Labour Party is back. For the first time in 15 years under a first time in 15 y
The destruction of infrastructure has already started to go mostly those of the electric. Roads and went off trees so that or it will take a while for the administration to gold with this situation and to this day after the land for happens because theyre already dealing with all know why this crisis well neighboring bangladesh is attempting to get 2200000 people to safety the country is on its highest level of the land 1200000 range refugees and cultures bizarre have also been asked to stay inside until the site turned passes our correspondent tundra choudary is in the capital dhaka he says the pandemic is making a major task even more difficult. We know that 1400000 people have been evacuated and put into shelter theres accommodation for at least 5000000 people there as the medical team and rescue Operation Team got a navy have been put on a large standby in the coastal areas even the Prime Minister is monitoring the situation this would be one of the biggest since 2007. So theyre ta
Qualification event in tokyo after crossing the finish line hand in hand. Good evening. New figures out today reveal the extent of britains drug crisis in the starkest terms possible. Deaths caused by the mis use of drugs mainly heroin and cocaine hit a record high in england and wales last year. In scotland too, drug related deaths are at their highest. Almost 3,000 people died from illicit drugs in england and wales last year. Thats a rise of 17 on the previous year. Throughout the week weve been reporting on one of the key factors behind this crisis the supply of drugs from the cities to britains towns and even villages or what police call the county lines. All too often children are involved and today our special correspondent, ed thomas, has been showing the police what hes discovered. As heroin deaths reach record highs, for three months weve investigated the rise in county line drug dealing, exploited teenage drug runners, vulnerable, long term users. Just taking it to feel norm
A book about it so hopeless was glasgow 100 years ago to leading a revolution well i dont think it was ever going to be a bolshevik revolution but it was certainly our mail storm and i have to see in researching the book i came to the conclusion we tend to think of the Armistice Day that when the guns fell silent in november 1900 the world must of been very peaceful and it was far from not because in january 1900 there was a war going on as the bolshevik revolution was fighting for its very survival with allied armies attacking russia and russia attacking poland ireland had just seen that a target of a majority the doily even had been established in the board of independence was about to be count overhanging all lot of great spanish flu pandemic was coming and and finally is demob soldiers were. Going home the specter of mass unemployment in a community that was already written with with poverty was frightening people who did. What had gone before so it wasnt peaceful times in 1900 it
Blago guns being paraded in and tanks being pleaded in the center of the way as they had time mobilized by the government into the George Square tanks were brought up the following day 10000 soldiers were brought from all across scotland to prevent to basically the situation escalating there had been a major strike could be known going all week and crowds had been gobbling a name as how often happens that was the real reason why it was a molten a crowd and it can best be described as a police riot Police Attacked the crowd but when the code was 20000 writing 240000 beyond the and many of them would accept us meant they toned and it be fair to see best of the police and this was a demonstration about an ongoing industrial dispute and job script in glasgow right outside the City Chambers which developed into a quite literally a riot because the the riot act was read all the taped to the least. To be read there were mass baton charges by the police and the cloud and then charged by the cl