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almost a year after russia invaded ukraine the bbc�*sjohn simpson talks to president zelensky about his countrys future. because of soaring energy costs. and coming up on sportsday on the the bbc news channel. as they prepare for this summers�* world cup, euro 2020 winners — england take on south korea this evening in their first game of the arnold clark cup. good evening. the family of the missing woman nicola bulley have called for people to focus on finding her and to stop spe...

majority of workers, they have the most votes in this. if they get behind us, then this could get through. if other small unions dont recommend this, for example unite, that might not matter. at this stage its not clear whether all the unions are going to recommend this offer to their membership. my sense is that the unison, gmb unions will probably get behind this. but its a big question whether the membership are going to think that is good enough. there is a lot of anger out there. ...

and japan meet for the first time in 12 years, seeking to set aside historic differences. the european central bank has hiked interest rates by half of 1%, despite the impact of rising rates on the banking sector. it comes as central banks and governments around the world are nervously watching whether the crisis surrounding credit suisse will develop into a global banking crisis. shares in credit suisse have stabilised after the swiss national bank offered it a funding lifeline. so ho...

paramedics— workers like nurses, midwives and paramedics do, whilst also being affordable for the taxpayer. the offer covers all nhs in england staff except doctors, who are on a different contract. also on the programme... the social media app tikto, kowned by a chinese company, is to be banned from uk government devices for security reasons. in eastern ukraine, a special report on the fighters in the trenches of bakhmut trying to resist the russian advance. gunfire. the russians ar...

work and to help people stay in the work. we saw things like money for a digital service to help people reflect on their careers and finances, with some money for careers in extra training places, and most substantially, i think, we have seen a big investment and support for people who are disabled are out of work for a long—term health condition want to go back again in a sustainable way. that investment has come alongside some changes in the benefit system, which are rightly contro...

over the black sea. britain becomes the latest country to ban the chinese— owned video sharing app tiktok from government mobile phones. the uk government has reached an agreement with health unions over a new pay dealfor nhs staff in england. the deal aims to bring to an end a winter of industrial action which has seen nurses, ambulance staff and physiotherapists all go on strike. the offer includes a rise of 5% for the next financial year starting in april and covers all nhs staff ...

im afraid, chris fawkes was not available this evening. northern ireland has had its warmest day of the year so far. temperatures at helens bay, close to belfast, getting above 16 degrees. but that warmth spawned some sharp showers this afternoon, some heavy downpours on thunderstorms, extending to parts of western scotland as well. for england and wales, we got a lot of cloud, bits and pieces of rain pushing south eastwards. but then stalling across the south—east corner, through th...

through his controversial pension reforms. we start with increasing warnings from western governments over the use of the chinese social—media platform, tiktok. today the british government banned it on all government and civil servants�* devices. take a listen. were also going to ban the use of macro when devices. we will do so with immediate effect. mr speaker, this is a precautionary move. we know that there is already use of tiktok across government, but it is also good cyber�...

tonight with the context, anand menon, director of the thinktank, the uk in a changing europe and the former spokesperson for the republican national committee doug heye welcome to the programme. around a million health workers in england have been offered a new pay deal today, which could bring to an end months of damaging strikes in the nhs. the unions at the negotation, represent a wide variety of health staff from nurses, paramedics, and midwives, to emergency call handlers and cle...

it certainly isnt all that we would have asked for. but it is an offer that we can put to our members. health workers say the effects of the strike action could have been avoided had the prime minister and his team responded earlier. this agreement rightly recognises the fantastic work that our nhs workers like nurses, midwives and paramedics do, whilst also being affordable for the taxpayer. we will have more details on the deal which covers all staff in nhs england apart from doctors...