they really feel the benefit? around 30 million workers in the uk will see their take—home pay rise from tomorrow. that's after cuts to how much national insurance is taken from their wages — those deductions are used to pay for certain state benefits, like pensions. that's after cuts to how much national insurance is taken from their wages — those deductions are used to finance certain state benefits, like pensions. it should mean the average worker would be £450 a year better off, but with tax levels frozen for another four years and rising prices, will people feel any better off? dr roger barker is

director of policy at the institute of directors. what changes will come into force tomorrow? national insurance, it is only and employers and the self—employed will showcase a cut tomorrow. they will get a second tax cut tomorrow after one injanuary. this has taken the ratchet national insurance pay my employees down from 12% last year to 8% effective tomorrow. how much you save in terms of your tax bill will depend on your income, but for the average employee earns about 35,000 average employee earns about 35,000 a year in the uk, taking the chewed macro tax cuts together, you are going to be about £900 a year better off, so it is a meaningful tax cuts, but it is occurring in the context of a big tax increase that has occurred over the last few years. we talked about what the balance of benefits is for employees. what is

the impression —— the position for employers? the the impression -- the position for employers?— employers? the situation there is unchanged- _ employers? the situation there is unchanged. the _ employers? the situation there is unchanged. the government - employers? the situation there is. unchanged. the government hasn't chosen to cut the employer national contribution —— national insurance contribution. that is still a significant tax that employers have to pay every time they employ someone. it is a deterrent to increasing employment in the economy. 0n the other hand, by cutting the employee national insurance contribution the government hopes that people will be lured back into the workforce. we still have labour shortages in the uk. there are about 900,000 job vacancies still present and the government is hoping that by reducing this tax on employees, people will think work now pays more, i will come back into the workforce and take the job. workforce and take the “ob. thank ou so workforce and take the “ob. thank

you so much. * the pandemic made us all familiar with flexible working, especially when it came to working from home. now people in the uk are going to have the right to ask for flexible working from day one of their employment rather than having to wait for 26 weeks. for more on this i'm joined by kate shoesmith from the recruitment and employment confederation. this looks like a good thing for employees. how do employers feel about this? many employers have been offering flexible work for quite some time, so you just need to think about the different models we have a work in, whether it is agency work, gig economy work. employers are quite used to it. the key thing here will have to be transparency. now employees can ask and they won for flexible working. we don't want that to be a surprise to any employer so it should be part and parcel of the recruitment process to make it for

the employee employer to ask for that information from the recruitment agency. they need to make it clear to the candidates in the hiring process. employers will have to be on the front foot here and transparent in what is available. and transparent in what is available-— and transparent in what is available. �* , ., ~' available. briefly, do you think we would have _ available. briefly, do you think we would have had _ available. briefly, do you think we would have had this _ available. briefly, do you think we would have had this change - available. briefly, do you think we would have had this change in - available. briefly, do you think we would have had this change in the | available. briefly, do you think we i would have had this change in the uk if it hadn't been for the pandemic? that is a great question. i have said we have already had loads of flexible working for a number of years now. i think the pandemic sped it up, but you're saying employers taking different decisions and say what they need to do to encourage people back to the office, so there needs to be that balance on both sides, flexible working that suits everybody but also making sure we have the right levels of productivity and comes from everybody working.- productivity and comes from everybody working. productivity and comes from eve bod workinu. a ., everybody working. across the world, are we seeing — everybody working. across the world, are we seeing more _ everybody working. across the world, are we seeing more flexible - everybody working. across the world, are we seeing more flexible working i are we seeing more flexible working coming into play? we are we seeing more flexible working coming into play?— coming into play? we have 'ust a ulobal coming into play? we have 'ust a global study i coming into play? we have 'ust a global study on i coming into play? we have 'ust a global study on this, i coming into play? we havejust a

global study on this, actually. . coming into play? we havejust a| global study on this, actually. we are saying employers increasingly looking for flexible working. it is set at different place in different places. in america we have sent a big financial institutions talking about how they are encouraging people back to work.— about how they are encouraging people back to work. thank you so much forjoining _ people back to work. thank you so much forjoining us. _ people back to work. thank you so much forjoining us. that - people back to work. thank you so much forjoining us. that is - people back to work. thank you so much forjoining us. that is it - people back to work. thank you so much forjoining us. that is it for l much forjoining us. that is it for me. stay tuned, the news is next. it's an issue that we've been talking about a lot over the last few months, the kind of things that children are looking at on their phones and how it might influence their behaviour. teachers are concerned about it as well and the national education union is now calling for more regulation from techology companies and the government. 0ur education editor, branwenjeffreys, reports. growing up, the whole world in their phone, teenagers navigating

their social lives online. but it's what they might encounter that parents fear. teachers told me they're worried, too, about the sexist attitudes, degrading language, which they believe is fed by online content. we asked them about their experiences. i've heard students in year 8, who are between the ages of 12 and i3, talking about the different plastic surgeries that they plan to have once they're old enough. i had one young man... i'll put it politely. he wanted to have sex with me. and sometimes it comes from girls as well. - it's notjust boys doing it. i think there's sort of this - self—replicating misogyny that girls show to other girls, i like, "oh, why haven't you put makeup on today?" or, "you've put too - much makeup on today." i think there's a great pressure to conform to a certain standard of, for example, outfit or body type or makeup. and the access is it's all around them and it's 24/7.

they have not got the ability to switch off. this teachers' union is already campaigning, saying sexist behaviour or hateful language is not ok in schools. young boys at the moment are accessing a lot of content that goes well beyond just influences but is very extreme. and big tech really do need to be social partners in dealing with some of this. we need some regulation from government as well. this isn't about smartphones, which teenagers can use to learn and to connect with each other socially. it's more about harmful content, which they can access online, which is changing attitudes towards girls and women, particularly. i've been bullied before. cyber bullying on facebook. i think there is quite a lot- of hateful words and comments. there's lots of racial slurs and things like that - that i've come across.

the government says its 0nline harm bill will help. tech companies will have to enforce minimum age limit orface large fines. branwen jeffreys, bbc news. let's remind you of a breaking story this hour, that the israeli military says it has fired senior officers after seven world central kitchen aid workers were killed in that strike in gaza on monday. they have released this statement at 11:30am today. they say that the investigation�*s findings indicate the incident should not have occurred. those who approved the strike were convinced they were targeting armed hamas operatives. the strike on the aid vehicles stems from a serious failure due to mistaken identification. mistakes and decision making. and an attack

contrary to the standard operating procedures. they have issued us with this map which appears to show what happened at different points. they say in the inquiry into the incident that some workers survive the initial air strikes but were killed when a third car was hit stop israel said earlier this week that the incident was a grave mistake and it vowed to take immediate action to make sure moore was done to protect aid workers. they have said that following the investigations, the chief of general staff decided that the following measures should be taken and they say that the brigade support commander, an officer with the rank of major, would also be dismissed. various people involved

in that incident being dismissed. we have been issued with this response from world central kitchen. they cite the idf has acknowledged its responsibility on the deadly attack on gas and has taking to six —— disciplinary action and are committed to reforms. these are important steps forward. they go on to say that it is also clear from their preliminary investigation that their preliminary investigation that the idf has employed deadly force without following its own chain of commands. the 39's on video fails to show any cause too fire on a convoy. it is worth saying we have not seen that video that they are referring to. the world central kitchen goes on to say without systemic change there will be more military failure more apologies and more grieving families. the root cause of the

unjustified rocket fire on our convoyis unjustified rocket fire on our convoy is the severe lack of food in gaza. israel needs to dramatically increase the amount of food and delivered by land if it is serious about delivering humanitarian aid. so, that is the response from world central kitchen. there is plenty more on the story on our website. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello. snow for some across scotland this morning, but the contrasting conditions this weekend will be fairly stark. what we've got at the moment is this area of cloud developing across the azores, bringing up air from the mid—atlantic. this is going to be storm kathleen, which will pass to the west of the uk as we go through saturday and into sunday, bringing the potential for some disruptive winds, but bringing some very mild air to our shores. so after seeing some snow, we could

see temperatures in scotland into the high teens, and across some eastern parts of england maybe as high as around 22 degrees through saturday afternoon. at the moment, though, it's still chilly across scotland. still a little bit of snow around for a short while over the hills, but turning back to rain for many. further cloud, outbreaks of rain here and indeed in northern ireland this afternoon, but for england and wales a better chance of some sunnier breaks, especially the further south and east you are. a few heavy showers, but in the sunshine between those showers, and the south—westerly wind, we could see highs of around 18 or 19 degrees, contrasting with six or seven in the north of scotland. here temperatures won't drop much through the night. further batches of rain this time rather than snow and moving from south to north, the heaviest of which will be in western areas. the odd rumble of thunder can't be ruled out too. note the temperatures — a very mild night for all as we go into the start of the weekend. but, of course, still a big easter travel weekend with us, so if you are on the move, be wary. there could be some travel disruption, certainly to the ferries and bridge restrictions, as well. northern and western areas greatest affected by the strongest of the winds. they could be topping 60,

maybe 70mph for some. not a huge amount of rain, although a very wet start in northern scotland. then we'll see showers, particularly across the west trying to push their way eastwards. not going to see much if any wet weather across some parts of eastern england and, even in the west, it should brighten up into the afternoon. the winds here, though, strongest, as i said — gusts of 60, maybe 70mph for one or two. but those winds coming in from the south, the south—west. 17 in the inverness area, maybe 22 degrees in parts of east anglia. that feel, of course, tempered by the strength of the wind, which remains strong through the night and into sunday. storm kathleen passes to the north—west of the uk by this stage and so it's here where we'll see the strongest of the winds on sunday. the hebrides seeing 60 to 70mph gusts. still a windy day across the board, but sunday will be a mixture of sunshine and showers. some of the showers heavy with hail and thunder. not as mild as saturday, but temperatures still above average for this stage in april. take care.

live from london. this is bbc news. in a report, the israeli defence forces admit the killing of seven aid workers was the result of grave mistakes. two officers will be sacked. new aid routes into gaza will be opened, after the us threatens a change in policy towards israel. emergency workers in taiwan are still trying to reach about 600 people trapped by wednesday's earthquake. and senior doctors in england accept a pay offer, ending a year—long dispute with the government.

hello, i m annita mcveigh. welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast—moving news, interviews and reaction. we begin with breaking news — a statement released by the israeli defense forces following an investigation into the air strike in gaza which killed seven aid workers. here are the key points. which killed seven aid workers. the idf says the strike should not have happened, and expressed its deep sorrow for the incident. it says those who approved the strike were convinced they were targeting hamas operatives. the strikes on the three vehicles were carried out in "serious violation of standard operation procedure" and that the brigade

chief of staff, an officer with the rank of colonel in reserve,