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It will look at how she was able to carry out her crimes whilst working as a neonatal nurse at the countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016. It will also examine how Hospital Managers responded to doctors who raised concerns. Heres our north of england correspondentjudith moritz. Lets go live to liverpool Town Hall where the inquiry is taking place we can speak to my colleague nick garnett. Good morning to you. Just take us through this inquiry and what exactly the parameters are, what exac...

Coming up, im we will have the draw for rugby leagues challenge cup. One of the champions have reached the last 16. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The idea seems to have been to dampen down growing speculation about the health of the princess of wales and to show her in a happy family snap on mothers day. Instead, today kate has had to admit she edited the picture and has apologised for any confusion. It follows five Picture Agencies withdrawing the image over concerns it had b...

unspun world withjohn simpson. hello. its good to see you. were here in the bbc�*s central newsroom for another edition of unspun world. in todays programme — how is it that russias economy is doing so well in spite of the ukraine war and western sanctions? a quite extraordinary transformation of the russian economy into a war economy, with massive defence spending, with the reorientation of its industrial base towards its war machine. irans client groups around the middle east get...

its just a matter of how fast," did you really believe that? of course i believed it then. i think its a fair assessment about where the anc find themselves — in the last local government elections, in 2021, they, for the first time in post—democratic south africa, lost their majority and fell below 50%. this obviously allied with the fact that our economys not growing, weve got 30 million people living in poverty, 12 million people unemployed, and loadshedding, rolling blackouts, ...

of the guard coming in south africa, the anc�*s decline is terminal. its just a matter of how fast," did you really believe that? of course i believed it then. i think its a fair assessment about where the anc find themselves — in the last local government elections, in 2021, they, for the first time in post—democratic south africa, lost their majority and fell below 50%. this obviously allied with the fact that our economys not growing, weve got 30 million people living in pover...

the anc has been damaged by economic stagnation, a protracted energy crisis, and massive inequality. my guest today is the leader of the biggest opposition party, the democratic alliance, john steenhuisen. could he become south africas first white leader since apartheid? john steenhuisen, welcome to hardtalk. great to be with you, stephen. well, its great to be here in cape town. lets start with a very simple question. when you said not so long ago, "there is a changing of the guard co...

a reservoir in connection with the disappearance of british girl madeleine mccann. its 8am in singapore, and 3am in the russian region belgorod, where russia says its hunting ukrainian saboteurs who crossed the border and injured eight people. the local governor said one village had been shelled and several people had suffered shrapnel wounds. ukraine has denied having anything to do with the attack but suggested russian paramilitaries were involved. our russia editor, steve rosenberg,...

we start tonight in washington, where talks to avoid a us debt default have been described as productive, but theres still no deal. presidentjoe biden and speaker of the house kevin mccarthy led negotiations on raising the debt ceiling to ensure the us can continue to pay its bills. biden and republican congressional leaders now have just ten days to avoid a default. president biden said: kevin mccarthy spoke outside the white house, and the bbc�*s nomia iqbal was watching. he said t...

where negogtiators working to avoid a us debt default are back on capitol hill for talks tonight. negotiations have been described as productive, but theres still no deal. earlier, presidentjoe biden and speaker of the house kevin mccarthy led talks on raising the debt ceiling to ensure the us can continue to pay its bills. biden and republican congressional leaders now have just ten days to avoid a default. president biden said: kevin mccarthy spoke outside the white house, and the bb...

my guest today is the leader of the biggest opposition party, the democratic alliance, john steenhuisen. could he become south africas first white leader since apartheid? john steenhuisen, welcome to hardtalk. great to be with you, stephen. well, its great to be here in cape town. lets start with a very simple question. when you said not so long ago, "there is a changing of the guard coming in south africa, the anc�*s decline is terminal. its just a matter of how fast," did you reall...