in sport, he s done it luke littler s dream run continues, as the 16 year old becomes the youngest person to reach tonight s world darts final. tha nkfully thankfully not as windy today but there are now over 300 flood warnings across the uk following storm henk. at least the prospects are a little bit drier. full forecast on breakfast. good morning. it s wednesday, 3rd january. our main story. junior doctors in england are about to begin a six day strike the longest in nhs history. tens of thousands of routine operations and appointments are likely to be postponed as hospitals focus on emergency care. members of the doctors union, the bma, have asked for a 35% pay increase. the government says that is unrealistic. 0ur health correspondent sophie hutchinson reports. what do we want? fair pay! when do we want it? now! a new year, but still no end in sight to the junior doctors pay dispute, which started last spring. the six day walk out is their longest yet, and comes
to ferry people across the channel, it is about getting after the money of these people smugglers and it is about working hard both on the uk border and across europe. that is what driven this 36% reduction. at the same time, is that you re seeing an 80% increase. we are a positive outlier because of the actions that we have taken. so this is not about the weather, this is about the work the home office officials have been doing both domestically and with their counterparts across europe. opposition labour party says ministers are manipulating the figures. here s the shadow home secretary yvette cooper. rishi sunak s claim to have cured the asylum backlog isjust totally false. in fact, the figures are nearly 100,000 cases and they haven t even fully cleared the bit of the backlog they were targeting. our political correspondent nick eardley has been working with the bbc verify team and looking at the claims. the big claim from the government today is that it s got rid of the
Think about releasing me. I thought that was bordering on blackmail. Well hear from eniola alukos best friend former england player leanne sanderson, whos calling for the men at the top to resign. And the former boss of kids Company Tells us she has nothing to be sorry for over the collapse of her charity. You are not going to apologise to the children let down . Money that you wasted . The children let down . Money that you wasted 7 i the children let down . Money that you wasted . I do not think we wasted money. Why are you assuming we wasted money . This is charity money, donations. It is a minor detail. It is not a minor detail. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11 this morning. The latest breaking news and stories through the morning. Later we will hear from through the morning. Later we will hearfrom sir tom jones, through the morning. Later we will hear from sir tom jones, who says through the morning. Later we will hearfrom sir tom jones, who says he was sexually
On Bbc News At Five. A former royal marine, Ciaran Maxwell, has beenjailed for 18 years for supplying bombs to dissident irish republicans. Plans to recruit an extra 21,000 Mental Health workers in england over the next four years, have been announced by the health secretary. Downing street has insisted that Free Movement of people will end in march 2019, when the uk leaves the european union. And real madrid superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo, has appeared before a court in the city accused of tax fraud. Good evening from Tyne Cot Cemetery in belgium, where commemorations have been taking place to mark 100 years since the start of one of the bloodiest battles of world war one. Over three months, british and allied troops fought with german soldiers in what became known as the Battle Of Passchendaele. In the fields around this cemetery, around half a million soldiers on both sides of the war were killed, wounded or went missing. Prince charles, along with the duke and duchess of cambridge, j
Good morning. Welcome to bbc news, im victoria derbyshire. Here are are the headlines this Tuesday Morning the Prime Minister has spent the night in an intensive care unit being treated for coronovirus after his symptoms worsened yesterday evening. Borisjohnson is at St Thomas Hospital in london, where he was admitted on sunday. The Prime Minister is in intensive care, being looked after by his medical team, receiving the very, very best care from the team at st thomas, and our hopes and prayers are with him and with his family. The foreign secretary is standing in for the Prime Minister where necessary the queen is being kept informed about mrjohnsons health we have a Prime Minister who, as somebody said, is first amongst equals. The rest of those equals are still in post, and dominic raab is one of them, and he will lead them through this using the same policy positions and the same Decision Making process, until boris is able to step back up again and take charge, and that we ferven