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good morning. for most of the uk it is a day of sunny spells and showers. some of those will be quite heavy. it is a different story for east anglia and the south east, where it s going to be raining for most of the day with the threat of some localised flooding. they will have the full forecast for you a little later on. it s sunday, 6 november. good morning. our main story: the biggest ever strike by nurses looks set to go ahead, after a ballot of around 300,000 members of the royal college of nursing. the final results are still being counted, but the union says a large majority of nurses have voted to walk out in a dispute over pay. the department of health in england has urged unions to think hard before taking action which might affect patients. 0ur health editor hugh pym reports. there have been a series of balance among the rcn s 300,000 members at individual workplaces. pay rises lower than inflation over several years and workforce shortages reasons given by the roy ....
he has managed to track down the smuggler across europe to luxembourg. here s his story. excuse me, sir. andrew harding from bbc news. we ve come to luxembourg to confront a man we ve been chasing across europe. we know who you are, you re a smuggler. no. he s responsible for putting hundreds of people in small boats heading from france to england. and responsible for one boat in particular. this one. we came across it back in april on a beach in northern france. police, battling with a group of smugglers. chaos as people clambered onto the boat. we saw a girl here in a pink coat. she was one of five to die at the scene. her name was sara, seven years old, born in belgium, raised in sweden. a few days later, we found her father, ahmed, an iraqi man consumed by grief and also by guilt. but what of the smugglers? multiple sources tell us the man paid to arrange sara s journey is still active and working from a distant city. so we ve come now to antwerp, a city in northe ....
thejury decided the jury decided that hunter biden, who was a crack cocaine addict, had lied about his drug use when he bought a gun in 2018. and england begin training in germany, ahead of the start of their euros campaign. on bbc london: and coming up on bbc news emma raducanu s comeback goes to plan. she s into the next round at the nottingham open, after a straight sets win today. hello. rishi sunak has launched the conservative party s election manifesto, promising a raft of new measures that he says will enable working people to keep more of the money they earn. he was speaking at the silverstone race track, and made pledges on tax, housing and immigration, including another 2p cut in the pound in national insurance, plus the abolition of the main self employed rate. there ll be help for first time buyers, with the scrapping of stamp duty on homes up to £425,000, and a new help to buy scheme. there s also a commitment to halve migration and have regularflight ....
labour leader sir keir starmer will reaffirm his commitment to the uk s nuclear deterrent, describing labour as the party of national security. he says keeping britain safe should be the bedrock of any government. the liberal democrat deputy leader daisy cooper will outline plans to give rivers and coastlines protected status to prevent water companies getting away with environmental vandalism . and snp leaderjohn swinney has called for a respectful contest ahead of the scottish leaders first television debate of the campaign. let s speak to our chief political correspondent henry zeffman. what s correspondent henry zeffman. to unpack today. st with what s to unpack today. starting with the conservative party and what they describe as the way they want to go forward on the issue of sex and gender, which are as you society is talking about a lot these days. it absolutely is. and the way that can serve conservation has progressed the conservatives say is the reason t ....
Waiting list at the moment. ok, andrew, thank waiting list at the moment. ok, andrew, thank you waiting list at the moment. 0k, andrew, thank you very much. lucinda, thanks to you both for updating us from your regions. here are the candidates who have been selected so far to battle it out in that constituency that andrew was talking about of norwich north. the bbc will have a full list of candidates once nominations close. here are the candidates who have been selected so far in lewes. again, the bbc will have a full list of candidates once nominations close. more now on the general election campaign. labour leader sir keir starmer will reaffirm his commitment to the uk s nuclear deterrent, describing labour as the party of national security. he says keeping britain safe should be the bedrock of any government. labour s shadow defence secretaryjohn healey was also on the today programme a little earlier. healey was pressed on david lammy voting against trident in 2016 and his mo ....