after years of a pay cap or pay freeze, the government gives pay rises to over a million nhs staff. over the next three years, wages will increase between 6.5% and 29%. it's nice for us to be recognised for all that hard work. but obviously, it doesn't detract away from the last few years, where we actually haven't had anything. now it's up to staff to agree to the deal. we'll be looking at the detail of what's on offer. also tonight... this summer's world cup — the foreign secretary compares russia's staging of it to hitler hosting the olympics. the academic at the centre of the row over harvesting personal facebook data tells the bbc he's been made a scapegoat. the new scanner that, for the first time, can track within the brain a person's movements as they happen. and coming up on bbc news: scotland scuppered by the rain. they failed to qualify for next year's cricket world cup — after they were beaten by the west indies and the weather. good evening and welcome

to the bbc news at six. more than a million nhs workers can expect pay rises, if they agree to a deal struck between most unions and ministers. it follows a pay cap imposed for the last five years and a pay freeze before that. the deal will see wages increase between 6.5% and 29% over the next three years — with the exception of doctors, dentists and senior leaders. the biggest rises will go to those on the lowest end of the scale — cleaners, porters and catering staff — who will see an immediate £2,000 added to their pay packets this year. the salary increases are expected to cost around £4 billion, but won't come out of the nhs budget. they will come from the treasury instead. 0ur political editor, laura kuenssberg, reports. porters. paramedics. nurses who care

for millions of patients. the staff who keep the nhs going finally to have a bigger pay rise. it is nice for us to be recognised for all that ha rd for us to be recognised for all that hard work. but obviously, it doesn't detract away from the last few years where we actually haven't had anything. most of us live on eight strict budget. the future will look better and brighter. i have two young children and having this pay rise will help with childcare and things like that, i will be able to do more things. for five years, there have been calls to do just that. aside from automatic rises, the limit on public sector pay increases of i% meant wages fell behind. and the election left the

tories in no doubt about the rotation. so... today's agreement on a new pay deal reflects public appreciation but just how appreciation butjust how much they have done and continue to do. rarely has a pay raise been so well—deserved for nhs staff who have never worked harder. when a nosebleed it with the prime minister for a pay rise on national television, she was told there was i'io television, she was told there was no magic monetary —— when a nurse pleaded with. so can he tell us how this pay rise will be paid for? has the prime minister's horticultural skills grown said monetary? rises will come from the treasury to start with, not existing health budgets, so with, not existing health budgets, so the big unions are on board. so the big unions are on boardm has not solved the problem is, it is a start and we would expect to be the start menu process that recognises the hard work of our nurses and people who work in our health service, that recognises the

value and that we value those people for what we do. staff still have to approve the deal and with inflation, it might not make the difference.” think the devil is in the detail and other members that might yesterday we re other members that might yesterday were going through the details and could not see how this was going to claw back years of pay cuts. perhaps for nhs staff in england, these rises cannot come fast enough. remember, limits on pay have been in place for years. part of the conservatives efforts to balance the nation's box. but public money will still be tight. this is an easing of the squeeze, not the end. scotland and wales are likely to follow the westminster move. and it adds volume to calls for rises in other parts of the public sector. money around here is still tight, but the cap no longerfits. the foreign secretary has compared russia's staging of the world cup this summer to hitler hosting the olympics in nazi germany. borisjohnson also says

that he is "deeply concerned" about how british fans may be treated at the world cup. 0ur diplomatic correspondent, james landale, reports. in salisbury, the investigation into the nerve agent attack on sergei skripal and his daughter continued as the diplomatic row between britain and russia threatens to damage sporting relations as well. this summer, england's football team will travel to russia for the world cup companies by thousands of british bands and the government is worried about their safety. we're watching it very, very closely. at the moment, we are not inclined actively to dissuade people from going because we want to hear from the russians what steps they are going to take to look after our fans. so far, he said, only 24,000 british bands had applied for tickets, far fewer than normal. the numbers are well down, but that does not mean we are not deeply concerned about how they may be treated. the

great day dawns with the arrival of the olympic flame at the end of its 2,000 mile journey from greece. one said vladimir putin would use the world cup in the same way hitler used the berlin olympics, to gloss over what the mp called a brutal and corrupt regime. the foreign secretary did not disagree.” corrupt regime. the foreign secretary did not disagree. i think the comparison with the 1936 is certainly right. and i think it is a prospect to think of putin glorying in the sporting event. in moscow, senior officials summoned foreign diplomats for an extraordinary briefing to suggest that britain itself had orchestrated the attack in salisbury. the british authorities are either unable to ensure protection from such a terrorist act on their territory or they themselves directly or indirectly are not accusing anyone,

have directed this attack against a russian citizen. my name is emma nottingham and i am from the british embassy. you cannot see her, but the british diplomat gave as good as she got. sergei skripal and his daughter, yulia, or poisoned with a military grade novichok nerve agent ofa military grade novichok nerve agent of a type developed by russia in what we see as an attempted assassination attempt. the uk concluded it was highly likely that russia was responsible. it is now clear the nerve agent used in salisbury is poisoning britain's relations with russia as well. with no letup in the war of words. an academic who created an app which harvested data from 50 million facebook users says he has been made "a scapegoat". dr aleksandr kogan has told the bbc he didn't know his work for the data company cambridge analytica in 2014 violated facebook‘s policies. cambridge analytica is accused of gathering data from millions of people without their knowledge.

here's our business editor, simonjack. the pressure on mark zuckerberg is growing to give his version of how the personal data of 50 million facebook users ended up with a consultancy that worked on the successful election campaign of donald trump and was secretly filmed boasting of their influence. the cambridge academic who came up with the original app says he is stunned by the controversy. never in our wildest dreams did we think anything we did would be used in the donald trump campaign. this is 2014. well before anybody would think mr trump would be a serious candidate. so at the time, i didn't know who their clients were going to be and i did not know the specific case. i

did not know the specific case. i did know it was going to be used for political purposes but beyond that, yes, it was well above my pay grade. i should have asked! although he did sign an undertaking that is migratory was from research only and would never be used for commercial purposes. the implication and aligning the story is democracy has somehow been undermined and that drew a political response today. the allegations are clearly very concerning and it is absolutely right that they should be investigated, it is right that the information commissioner is doing exactly that, because people need to have confidence in how their personal data is being used. so how much are we, as consumers, to blame for surrendering the facts of our lives? the conservation we should be having is, what happens to our data, how much are we comfortable to share, who with, and what we think about how that is done? so this feels to me like a real light bulb moment where people are understanding that it is notjust clicking like on facebook, you are

giving data away. so far, this scandal has cost facebook, whose london headquarters there, $50 billion in market value and untold reputational damage. the chief executive mark zuckerberg has been silent and he will speak tonight in couege silent and he will speak tonight in college for new, but how much responsibility could he and should he take for the misuse of his own customers data? cambridge analytica have always denied they used the harvested data in the trump campaign and deny any wrongdoing. mark zuckerberg will need a better statement than that. we can talk to our economics editor, kamal ahmed, in brussels. but first, let's go to our media editor, amol rajan, who's in san francisco, where facebook has its headquarters. mark zuckerberg, founder of facebook, he's going to break his silence about the scandal, what is he likely to say? it is about time too because the silence from zuckerberg and chief operating officer sheryl sandberg has been

deafening. we do not know for certain he will speak today and there is still doubt about that, we don't know when and how he will speak. he has put long posts on his facebook page in the past, it could be that or video post. if as we expect he does speak today, he will have three key messages. the first, it will be his account of what happened. there are people at the company who feel they are getting the blame for the misdeeds of individuals and companies who may have misled them. interesting to hear what zuckerberg has to say about that. he is also going to acknowledge public concern around the world about data, companies growing very powerful by holding large amounts of data and he will talk about that directly and try and reassure facebook‘s huge global unity of 2 billion users that he ta kes unity of 2 billion users that he takes his responsibilities towards them very seriously. but he has multiple audiences, the staff here who look to him as a deity who want reassurance. the lawmakers and regulators in washington and europe who have their claws out and want a

piece of facebook. and the members of the public around the world who are increasingly concerned. i suspect it would be easier for him to persuade staff than it is for him to persuade staff than it is for him to persuade staff than it is for him to persuade the public that he takes their concerns over data seriously. and, kamal in brussels, the other issue that has dogged the big social media companies is the amount of tax they pay — or do not pay. and the eu tightening the rules on that today. absolutely. i think digital companies like facebook, like google, have had two controversies. one on data and the other on tax. today, the european commission said it wanted to completely terror attacks rules it came up with a really stock figure. traditional businesses operating across europe pay and effective tax rate of 23%, companies like google and facebook, their active tax rate is 9.5%. it has been a controversy for many years, the european commission's proposals today say they want to start taxing the activity based on

advertising revenues, the number of users these companies have across europe. the companies themselves say they paid the majority of their tax in america, where they invented the products we all use so eagerly. will it happen? aim to beat the commissioner who put forward the proposals and he said he wanted agreement across the eu 28 by the end of the year. will the uk be involved? the end of the year. will the uk be involved ? the treasury end of the year. will the uk be involved? the treasury has said it wants, its preferred option is a revenue tax. this could be as significant a moment on tax as the organ is on data for facebook themselves. from brussels and san francisco, thank you. with six people stabbed to death this past week in london, a senior police officer has told bbc news the big rise in knife crime isn't causing the outrage it should. he fears it's because many victims are from the black community that not enough is being done. our special correspondent, lucy manning, has been speaking to the family of one victim. seven days, six murders, all by knives.

police in east london investigate another last night. knives now being used too often, killing too many. just a few miles away, this bedroom was full of life, but that life is gone. they are parents who lost their son last month. now it's empty. nothing is here. he died for nothing. when i come into this room, hasan's smell comes in my nose. everywhere, it has that smell. hasan's mother, amina, can now only stroke his picture. everyone is lost too much, hasan. a lot of people loved him. he was handsome. he was very honest. and he was 19 years old. he had a plan for the future. hasan was a student, studying criminology, when he was stabbed. it's two minutes that

changed hasan's life, my life, my family's life. police! stay where you are! police! 5am., west london, police burst through the doors. officers are stepping up trying to stop knives being used, but admit they haven't been able to stop knife crime rising. knuckle—dusters and drugs are removed from the house and a sword is recovered. there has been a significant increase of knife crime and that's what we are tackling and have been tackling over the last year or so. so it's gone up, and i think we should all be concerned about that. 26 people murdered by knives in london so far this year, including six teenagers, prompting this frank admission. i do fear sometimes that because the majority of those that are injured or killed are coming from certain communities — and very often, the black communities in london — it doesn't get the sense

of collective outrage that it ought to do and really get everyone to a place where we all are doing everything we can to prevent this from happening. the bbc‘s obtained the latest provisional nhs figures for england, showing more than 4,000 stabbing victims treated in the ten months until the end of january this year. that's 520 more people and a 14% increase on the same period the year before. london hospitals like barts, imperial and king's college treated the most. 213 were treated in birmingham, 181 in manchester and 133 in liverpool. what would you like to see the police and the government doing to stop so much knife crime? they're not doing good enough. this is a serious problem, honestly. there's a lot of people that are dying that's 17 years old, 18 years old, 20 years old. they're dying for nothing. after the stabbings,

the flowers, but they don't last, and everyone — but the families — move on. i don't want anyone else hurt any more. i don't want... any mothers and fathers crying any more. lucy manning, bbc news. our top story this evening... after years of having their pay capped, millions of nhs staff in england are set for a pay rise of at least 6.5%. and still to come, could you live without plastic, as the concern grows of the trip to the environment, a family ties to break the habit. coming up on sportsday on bbc news, manchester city women resume their hunt for the one major trophy they've never won. the opening leg of their champions league quarterfinal is tonight, against linkoping. scientists in nottingham have invented a new type of brain scanner

which for the first time allows patients to move while being scanned. it shows exactly which part of the brain are responsible for movements as they take place. the researchers believe it has the potential to revolutionise the field of brain imaging of children and patients with movement disorders. fergus walsh reports. conventional brain scanners are big, bulky... ok, if you could keep still. ...and to get a good image, patients mustn't move in them. this device, which looks like a prop from a budget sci—fi movie or phantom of the opera, is in fact the latest thing in brain scanning. because you can do this whilst wearing it — play bat and ball, or even drink a cup of tea. the scanner records the magnetic field produced by brain activity, and can show precisely where in the brain these movements

are being controlled. so, nobody‘s ever been able to do this before... the area of the brain shown in blue is where wrist and arm movements are controlled whilst playing bat and ball. i think in terms of mapping brain activity, brain function, this represents a step change. neuroscientists will be able to envisage a whole new world of experiments where we try and work out what the brain's doing, but whilst a person is behaving naturally, is moving around. this is the conventional image scanner... recording magnetic fields from the brain is usually done with huge scanners called meg. you have to keep perfectly still. the wearable meg will be especially helpful in scanning children. so, children with epilepsy, this technology is going to be tremendously beneficial. and the reason is that doctors can now scan these children as they're moving around, and that's never been done before.

and it will make it easier to scan people with movement disorders like parkinson's. it was here at nottingham university in the early 70s that mri was first developed. now, this wearable meg system has the potential to open a whole new field of brain scanning. the research, in the journal nature, should lead to new discoveries about the brain, and there is so much still to learn. fergus walsh, bbc news, nottingham. the tv presenter ant mcpartlin has been charged with drink—driving and will appear at wimbledon magistrates' court next month. he was arrested after an accident involving three vehicles in london on sunday. leila nathoojoins me in now. what more can you tell us? as you say, it comes after eight collision on sunday. ant mcpartlin was driving

his mini and there was a collision with two other cars. he was arrested after failing with two other cars. he was arrested afterfailing a roadside breathalyser, he has been interviewed by police and charged with drink—driving. if he is found guilty, he could face six months in prison, a driving ban and a fine. we know he is taking time out from his tv commitments. his long—time co—presenter and friend dec, say the two remaining episodes of saturday night takeaway will go ahead without him. what the future holds will clearly depend on what happened in court. ant mcpartlin is due to appear at wimbledon magistrates after easter. tributes have been paid to the red arrows engineer who died in a crash on anglesey on tuesday. corporaljonathan bayliss's colleagues described him as a "generous, kind and caring man who could always be relied upon". the pilot of the aircraft, flight lieutenant david stark was injured in the accident. the archbishop of canterbury says three weeks of revelations of child abuse by clergy have made him ashamed of the church of england.

justin welby has been giving evidence at the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse. here's our religion editor martin bashir. nestled along the south coast, chichester is one of the church of england's most picturesque diocese. it's also been the setting for a multitude of child abusers, and there have been dozens of convictions, including canon gordon rideout, father robert coles, the reverend jonathan graves, bishop peter ball. nursing a heavy cold, the archbishop of canterbury arrived to give evidence after almost three weeks focused on the church of england, where the inquiry heard that cover—ups were commonplace, evidence was burned, and priests routinely abused their power. i swear by almighty god... answering questions for almost three hours, counsel to the inquiry fiona scolding asked

the archbishop what he'd learned from the process. he appeared to choke back tears. i've learned to be ashamed again of the church. philjohnson was abused by a priest in the diocese of chichester. what's also been shown up through his evidence, and the evidence throughout the inquiry, isjust how little power that he actually has. and, you know, he can use his authority and influence to try and affect change, but can't actually direct it. this is not howjustin welby would have chosen to mark the fifth anniversary of his installation. but he assured the inquiry that safeguarding remained a priority. martin bashir, bbc news. we keep on hearing about the rising concern about plastic — today a major study has warned

that the quantity of plastic in the world's seas will treble in a decade unless we use or throw away less of it. in the first of a three—part series, we've set one family from bristol a challenge — to see if they can live without single—use plastic for ten days. jon kay has been to visit them. so, what's for tea in the evans household tonight? plastic, and plastic, and plastic. and more plastic. liz, andy and their girls want to live with less of this. but how? plastic, plastic, plastic... plastic, plastic. they're going to try living without single—use plastic for ten days. we're up for it but... i can't see how you can do it, as a modern family. the bottles of lemonade that we like. tomorrow is bin day. we're doing well at recycling. but where does it go from us?

they were inspired by watching blue planet 2. it will take years, and years, and years. it will probably still be that same bottle when you're mummy and daddy's age. shower gel, for chloe. shower gel for ella. shampoo for the puppy. going plastic free... moisturisers... is going to mean some big changes. we're just plastic weirdos! i don't think you are weird. i think this is pretty typical of most households. yeah, but when you start to think about it, that's when you realise how reliant on it we are. we make our own toothpaste. how do you do that? to get some tips, they've come to meet the williams family, who have been living without plastic for two years. we are so used to being told we need a spray for this, a bottle for that... they use bars of shampoo, home—made deodorant. they have a little wooden stick in the middle. even special earbuds. just keeps anything fresh.

and waxed paper instead of clingfilm. i work on a fairly tight budget. liz wants reassurances won't break the bank when they try doing it. we think it's probably a bit cheaper, don't we? we haven't done a complete comparison, but our gut feeling is that it's cheaper. so windscreen wash now is water, a little bit of detergent, vinegar, and it works a treat. but will the evanses grind their coffee instead of buying pods, and use a strainer, rather than tea bags containing plastic? i think it's brilliant. absolutely brilliant. you're quite blown away by this? yes, lam. well, there's the fruit and veg. tomorrow, we'll follow their ten day challenge. i've got a stinking cold. and it's not easy. i've just been up to the chemist. everything is packaged in blinkin' plastic! jon kay, bbc news, bristol. time for a look at the weather. here's tomasz schafernaker. we are going to be frost free

tonight, which will make a nice change to what we have been experiencing for such a long time now. we will feel a big difference tomorrow morning. most will be frost free. there will inevitably be one two spots that will be freezing, the towns and cities will be mild. the area is coming from southern climes, weather systems in the atlantic. that means we will see whether chopping and changing over the next few days, pretty much business as usualfor few days, pretty much business as usual for this time of the year. there was a plume of milder air which will be in place across the uk tonight and tomorrow. this is what we have in the forecast tomorrow. some clear spells around, not necessarily here in scotland. quite damp here. despite the clear skies, temperatures are not going to get low at all. if you look at 5am on thursday, they will be hovering around six or 7 degrees. that is in

the morning. when you step out of the morning. when you step out of the front door, on your way to work, it will feel pleasant. if the sun is out, a beautiful star to a lovely spring day. through the course of the afternoon, the weather will admittedly go downhill in western parts. the cloud will increase. south—westerly wind. with that comes milder air. despite the rain, 10 degrees in belfast in the afternoon. the western isles of scotland get rain. the best of the weather will be across england and wales. eastern and southern areas getting up to 12 or even 13 degrees. on friday, the weather changes a little bit. the wind is swinging more from a north—westerly direction. a little bit cooler. even wintry showers across the hills of scotland. temperatures will range from eight in the north, to about 12 in the south. that's it. now on bbc one we can join the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good evening. this is bbc news. our latest headlines: more than 1 million nhs workers in england will get a pay rise of at least 6.5% over

the next three years. russia has responded angrily after borisjohnson drew parallels between president putin and adolf hitler. the russian foreign ministry said it was unacceptable and that borisjohnson was poisoned with hatred and anger. the tv presenter ant mcpartlin has been charged with drink—driving after he was involved in a car accident in london over the weekend. the red arrows engineer who died when his hawk t1 aircraft crashed at raf valley on tuesday has been officially named as corporaljonathan bayliss. the row over facebook and the misuse of data continues, as theresa may says allegations against the british firm