if the budget is one staple of the news calendar, so, too, the oscars. at this year s ceremony on sunday night, there was no such drama as last year s infamous slap by will smith. but the awards still received plenty of attention across bbc news, including on monday s news at one. now the sci fi epic everything everywhere all at once was the big winner at the oscars in los angeles with seven awards, including best director and best picture. again, the charge of not news was levelled byjohn stokes, who asked. many people will have been affected this week by industrial action, with hundreds of thousands of workers going on strike, including teachers, nurses, junior doctors, civil servants and rail workers. wednesday saw the most disruption. but if you wanted to hear about the effect this was having in your area by listening to bbc local radio or watching bbc regional news bulletins on tv, you might have struggled. the reason some of the staff on those services were also on a
westminsters s brains beyond government have been crunching through its, and they ve concluded what many a newscaster will know, it s the kind of the bleeding obvious, really. they present that times are really tough for people that wages and living standards and housing income are squeezed and will be for while. the tax burden for the highest it has been for a while and will be for a while as well. as we were discussing on the last edition of the podcast. a lot of the budget was quite nerdy and in the weeds. there was a discussion around childcare in england that we talked about. the arguments about pensions for very well. doctors and others to train and encourage them to work and not retire and spend time in the golf course. since then, the political discussion has moved on a bit with the announcement we were talking about with tiktok. what is hope for within government and some of the union resolution to some of the nhs disputes and strikes we ve seen in the last few month
welcome to the programme. the international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for russia s leader vladimir putin for war crimes. the court says there are grounds to believe that president putin is personally responsible for the deportation of hundreds of children from childrens homes and orphanages in ukraine for adoption in russia, since last year s invasion. it s the first time the court has ordered the arrest of a prominent, serving political leader. ukraine s president zelensky has hailed the decision as historic, but moscow dismissed the announcement as outrageous, saying it doesn t recognise the jurisdiction of the court. our diplomatic correspondent james landale reports from kyiv. vladimir vladimirovich putin, president of the russian federation and now alleged war criminal. accused along with a senior official of illegally removing children from ukraine, accused by this man s court. the judges have reviewed the information and evidence submitted by th
there was about six, eight police officersl at the bottom of my bed. it has been very difficult. very, very difficult. barrow is a peninsula in south cumbria, a long way away from most other places. it is isolated, but because of that, it s a really strong and tight community. it did used to have a good name for itself with the shipbuilding, and then everything s disappearing in barrow. there s the bad areas, and there s good areas. it s a beautiful town. i ve made amazing mates here. i ve made an amazing life here. you will walk down the street, - and you will see someone you know. everyone knew each other, or if you didn t know each other, you d have heard of them. so when a story like this breaks, everybody s notjust got an opinion on it, everybody knows someone involved in it as well. in the spring of 2020, a 19 year old barrow girl called ellie williams published a harrowing facebook post that would send shockwaves through her community. they put lit petrol rags and thre