today's offer is final. there will be no more talks on pay. we will not negotiate again on this year's settlements and no amount of strikes will change our decision. will the offers be enough to end the walk—outs? also on the programme... the hollywood actor kevin spacey tells a court in london that he is a "big flirt" as he denies the sexual assault allegations against him, calling them "madness". the everton and former england midfielder dele alli reveals he was sexually molested as a child. i was sexually molested as a child. i was auoin into sexually molested as a child. i was going into training, _ sexually molested as a child. i was going into training, smiling, - going into training, smiling, showing that i was happy. but inside, i was definitely losing the battle. �* ,_,, , ., , inside, i was definitely losing the battle. ,,, ,

and coming up in the sport on bbc news... domestic women's football could become £1 billion industry in ten years. that's according to a major review into the sport. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. more than a million public sector workers are being offered pay rises of up to 7% as the government tries to bring an end to strikes over pay and conditions. the government has accepted the recommendations of independent pay review bodies. police officers and prison officers in england and wales get 7%. teachers in england have been offered 6.5% junior doctors in england a 6% rise

with a lump sum ofjust over 1000 pounds. consultants, dentsist and gps also given 6% finally armed forces in the uk given 5% with a £1000 lump sum. the prime minister rishi sunak said it was the final offer and said the pay rises would not be funded by extra borrowing or new taxes. departments would have to find savings instead. teaching unions urged their members to accept it and end strike action. here's our political editor chris mason. what do we want? fair pay! when do we want it? now! teachers protesting, education disrupted, classrooms empty. for months, pupils and parents in england have been caught up in an angry row between teaching unions and the government. but could a 6.5% pay rise, alongside this promise from the prime minister, bring an end to it? there will be more money going into the schools budget to help schools pay for these new pay awards.

so they will not have to make cuts, and that was something that was rightly important to the unions and we have worked with them to ensure that the funding is there for schools. given the scale of disruption caused by industrial action this year, and notjust in schools, there is one question for trades unions tonight. will this mean the end of the strikes? well, i think in education, we will see a 6.5% pay award, properly funded pay of art, certainly our teaching unions will be recommended to their members that they accept the government's proposals, and if that is the case, then i think that we will see the end of the strikes in education. another part of the public sector, members will be weighing up the government's offer, crucially, they will be looking for those pay awards to be properly funded. what we can see is peter being robbed to pay paul. junior doctors in england started their longest walk out yet today over pay. here are a few dozen of them protesting in liverpool. they are on strike until tuesday. the union says the offer for them isn't good enough. so what do labour make of all of this? notably, kier starmer did not overtly criticise the government's announcement.

i know that news about the pay review body recommendations will be on the minds of many public sector workers today. those recommendations will, of course, be subject to negotiation. i don't think it's helpful for me to weigh in on that. at the heart of the government's decisions today are difficult choices, trade—offs... budgets are not infinite, when some ask for higher pay, that what always create pressures elsewhere. will you acknowledge explicitly that a consequence of your decision will mean cuts in the budgets of some key public services? this is a significant pay award. it's one of the most significant we've had in decades, and it is costing billions of pounds more than the government had budgeted for it. and that has consequences. if we are going to prioritise paying public sector workers more, that money has to come from somewhere else. inflation, public sector pay, budgets. what will happen next?

let me talk you through some dilemmas and decisions at the heart of this. the government has decided it does not want to pay for these pay rises either by borrowing or cranking up our taxes. so, how are they going to do it? well, they are scrambling around among existing budgets to try to find an extra £2 billion. they reckon about half of that can come by cranking up the cost of visas and the nhs surcharge for migrants. but what about the other £1 billion? they have not been a huge number of examples forthcoming about cuts or alternative ways of moving money around in terms of sorting that out. one idea is to freeze the recruitment of civil servants in the ministry of defence. also to limit the number of traineeships in the civil service. tonight, there is a big question. will this stop the strikes? the prime minister has implored union members to do the

right thing, as he puts it, to no one to say yes. but it'll be down to those union members. some seem relatively positive, others less so. the unite union are saying tonight they reckon there could be another wave of industrial unrest. so, we might not be at the end of this. chris mason, thank you. junior doctors have started thank you. their latest five day strike today. they've been offered a 6% pay rise — but that's a long way off the 35% unions are calling for. rishi sunak has said there will be no more negotiation on pay and has urged unions to call off the strikes. so what will they do? 0ur health editor hugh pym reports. an empty operating theatre, surgical robots unused, the result of cancellations caused by the strike. around half of our theatres are empty today. this is one of our robotic theatres, usually in use by our urogynaecological team or colorectal teams. the strain of repeated cancellations of appointments and operations

during nurses�* and doctors' strikes is all too clear. i feel frustrated and i feel anxious, and ifeel anxious on behalf of our patients and their families around the delays to care. and that's a cumulative effect of the strikes over many months now. claps don't pay the bills! in scotland, a deal�*s agreed with the junior doctors' union, but in england, there's been another strike. the union said a 6% pay award wouldn't be nearly enough to cover past inflation. this dispute has to continue until this government recognises that we're not worth less than we were in 2008. are you prepared to continue for months, maybe into next year? yes. the bma later confirmed strike action would continue, but ministers said there would be no more talks. this settlement, a fair and final settlement

allows us to reflect this huge contribution that doctors make, but to give them a pay rise of over £3,000 and then get back to focusing on cutting the waiting times. strikes by health workers in england have been causing disruption since the end of last year, but before that, a backlog had been building up, leaving some patients enduring long waits for treatment. this is my... janice used to be a paralympic swimmer and has won medals. she has a health condition, meaning she's deaf—blind. she also has arthritis and needs a knee replacement. but she's already been waiting for a year. i take a lot of heavy pain relief. i take pain relief four times a day. that includes morphine. last night, it woke me up, the pain wakes me up in the night. i then have to sort of get up, you know, the next day and really get on with life. janice says losing her mobility

would be a serious problem, but she doesn't have a date for the operation. she uses her drum set to keep his spirits up, but the waiting is getting harder. hugh pym, bbc news. there have been warnings of soaring public debt in the uk as the cost of borrowing surges and the population ages. it gives you an idea of the balancing act facing the government. 0ur economics editor faisal islam is here to explain thanks, sophie. the backdrop to this set of decisions was revealed this morning by the office for budget responsibility, the government's official forecasters for tax and spending policy. and the projections were pretty grim. here is the current situation — the national debt now is the same size as all the output in the economy in one year, or 100% of gdp — the result of pandemic and energy crisis. these are levels not seen

since the second world war. today the 0br has projected forward the impact of policy, changes in the population such as fewer workers and more retirees. it wasn't looking great to start with — add in the impact of rising interest rates and future energy shocks and long term we are on course for a record national debt up to three or even 400% of gdp though over a long period of 50 years. what is driving this? rising interest rates don't just affect mortgages but govenrment borrowing costs too, all governments. but, says the 0br, the uk has been especially hit. why? because our debts are now especially short term, and also significantly linked to the inflation rate. that's a bad combination, sending government interest spending spiralling. and that's where much spending is now going, as well as the costs of inflation — so the triple lock for pensions, uprating benefits, and this new set of pay awards for next year. the better news is the 0br chief says these 6—7% pay awards

are unlikely to increase inflation. the pressures that it puts on inflation would be offset were the government to find savings elsewhere in departmental budgets, because that means departments are spending less on other things and that's not pushing up demand on goods and services elsewhere in the economy. but the picture we have is of a public purse increasingly drained by interest, pay, and pensions, with less room for investing in the future. and the long shadow of pandemic spending and debts being felt whoever wins the next election. the hollywood actor kevin spacey has told a court in london that he's a "big flirt" and was "somewhat intimate" with one of the men he's accused of sexually assaulting, but he denied behaving aggressively. mr spacey has pleaded not guilty to 12 charges relating to four men, between 2001 and 2013. lucy manning reports from southwark crown court. some of the jury admitted they'd watched his award—winning films. now they saw kevin spacey close up, in the witness box,

at times emotional, fighting for his innocence. the judge told the actor he didn't need to project, and mr spacey spoke confidently, mentioning judi dench, eltonjohn, john gielgud and jack lemon. but this was not about the american beauty star's career, but about allegations of multiple sexual offences. he was asked about a driver who claims he was sexually assaulted. "we had a fun time together," the actor told the court. mr spacey, who described himself as a flirt, said it did not happen in a violent, aggressive, painful way. "it was gentle and, to my mind, romantic. it was not what has been described." asked what he thought about the man making the allegations, he replied, "i was crushed. i never thought the man i knew, years later, would stab me in the back." asked by his barrister if he had grabbed the driver in the crotch

so hard he almost came off the road, he said, "that never happened. i was not on a suicide mission on any of those years." as artistic director of the old vic, it's claimed he sexually assaulted a worker at another theatre event. but he told the jury, "it's madness, it never happened." 0n the most serious charge of an unwanted sexual act against a man, mr spacey told the court, "in the witness box, he accused me of drugging him and waking up to this terrible attack. none of that was true. we had a consensual and, i believe, nice and lovely evening. i would never behave in the way he claimed." asked about a barman who said the actor had assaulted him, he said, "with a few issues, i have no issue with what he testified. we had some drinks, and i made a pass. i'm only happy that he testified that the moment he told me he wasn't interested, i stopped." the house of cards actor became

emotional when he talked about another allegation he'd faced in a us civil court that was dismissed last year, and how his work had dried up. and he was tearful as he recounted his decision to come out as gay. the hollywood star, who's been described as a sexual bully, will be cross—examined tomorrow. lucy manning, bbc news. two teenagers convicted of murdering a 16—year—old boy in a case of mistaken identity have been sentenced to more than 16 years in prison. ronan kanda, who had just finished his gcses, was walking to a friend's house in wolverhampton when he was attacked from behind by the two teenagers wielding a sword and a large machete. you may find some images in phil mackie's report upsetting. ronan kanda was just 16 when he lost his life in what police described as an unbelievably callous attack. he had no idea his killers, who thought he was someone else, were about to attack him with a machete and a ninja sword.

the cctv footage is shocking. they were monsters. they are evil. their actions are evil. they didn't think twice before what they did to my son. ronan was a fanatical liverpool fan. he had just aced his gcses and wanted to be a lawyer. it's destroyed his family. ronan was just a fun loving, happy, good kid, who wasjust living a normal life. yet he's become the victim of knife crime. this house was full of laughter. and the silence kills me. the kandas believe the weapons that killed him should be banned and rules governing the sale of knives tightened up. veadhasa ordered them with someone else's id. this was him picking the sword up from the post office. again, no one checked his age. he was able to buy and sell weapons like this, even though he was 16. this case is another instance of the national scourge of knife crime. as a result of which, young lives are brutally cut short, because of the ease

with which lethal weapons can be obtained and used on our streets. james brindley was murdered with a knife six years ago. his dad, mark, set up a foundation in his name which works to prevent youth violence. it's glamorisation of murder weapons, isn't it? together, we looked at the website which sold the weapons used in ronan kanda's murder. mark ordered similar weapons to see how easy they were to buy. it isn't illegal to sell them to adults. yesterday, we went to see the package after it arrived. how are you feeling now, just opening this? i'm feeling really emotional. yeah. this, if it looks anything like on the internet, is designed to cause serious injury or death. the foundation has set up a number of knife surrender bins, and so we took the ninja swords to get rid of them.

today, reporting restrictions were lifted, allowing us to name prabjeet veadhesa and sukhman shergill, even though they are still 17. the judge said it would send a message about the seriousness of knife crime. we love you, ronan. 0n the wings of these doves, fly free. it was the anniversary of ronan�*s death at the end of last month. a large crowd gathered to commemorate him and reiterate the campaign against these types of weapons. and we want to carry on his fight to save another ronan from going through what my son went through on this road, through no fault of his own. phil mackie, bbc news, wolverhampton. a fierce heatwave is gripping parts of europe, with temperatures reaching more than a0 degrees celsius. this is the south of france.

tourists heading to the mediteranean and the beach in places like antibes are being warned to take extra care. this was taken in northern spain, where locals are having to do what they can to keep themselves and their animals cool. in germany, fields are already parched as the heatwave takes hold. in greece, there've been dozens of forest fires in the last few days in this part of the peloponnese, with temperatures expected to hit 45 degrees celsius. and they'll do anything to keep cool in italy, where10 cities including rome and florence have been issued with red alert warnings for severe heat. 0ur correspondent, sofia bettiza, is in rome now. sophie, it has been extremely hot here today. as you can see, there are lots of tourists here in italy and some of them have collapsed in the last few days because of heat stroke. that includes a british tourist who passed out in front of the colosseum. this heatwave could

cause temperatures to reach 48.8 degrees celsius, and that would break the record for the highest temperature ever recorded in europe. of course, because of climate of course, because of climate change, heatwaves like this are becoming more extreme and more frequent. and they can be quite dangerous. they are one of the deadliest natural hazards. last summer, more than 60,000 people in europe were killed because of the heat. so there are fears that this heatwave could cause more deaths this year. that's why italian authorities are urging people to stay indoors, to drink lots of water, to avoid coffee and alcohol and to check on their elderly neighbours if they live alone. they are urging people to take this very seriously, because these extreme temperatures could continue for the

next ten days. temperatures could continue for the next ten days— our top story this evening... the government offers a pay rise of up to 7% for around a million public sector workers in england and wales, including junior doctors starting another five—day strike today. coming up, midfielder dele alli is praised for speaking about issues in his childhood. and coming up in sport... here in wimbledon, on women's semi finals day, the fairy tale is over for elina svitolina, but it continues for marketa vondrousova, who becomes the first unseeded women's finalised here since 1963. a month ago, 82 people are known to have drowned when a migrant boat capsized off the coast of greece. but it's feared around 500 more may have lost their lives. now more doubts have been cast

on the greek coastguard's account of what happened that night. the greek authorities have denied claims they were to blame. but a bbc investigation has spoken to two survivors who say greek officials caused the boat to capsize when they tried to tow it. and then told them to keep quiet and blame others for the tragedy. nick beake reports. new footage of the fatal journey — the packed migrant boat leaning precariously. bbc verify has confirmed this video is genuine. here's why. look at the much bigger vessel in the background. we've identified it as the faithful warrior, which we know came to provide food and water. its shape matches, and its tracking data also places it in the area at the time. we believe this video was filmed by the greek coastguard, which continues to claim at this point that the migrant boat was not in danger. in central athens, we meet two survivors who ask us to hide their identity.

because they say and show how the greek coastguard caused their boat to capsize. they attached a rope from the left. everyone moved to the right side of our boat to balance it. the greek vessel moved off quickly, causing our boat to flip. they kept dragging it for quite a distance. the men allege that when survivors tried to speak out, they were quickly silenced. "you have survived death, stop talking about the incident and don't ask more questions about it. "stop talking about this. stop making accusations. "you are safe now. that's the most important thing." we returned to the port of kalamata, where the coastguard interviewed survivors and where the authorities are under pressure to explain more about what happened. the greek coastguard initially denied they had tried to tie a rope to the migrant boat, but later admitted they had done, although insisted that didn't cause

the vessel to capsize. their official version remains that until that point, the boat had been on a steady course towards italy. but our bbc investigation last month showed that for at least seven hours before it went down, the boat had hardly been moving at all. and now, using court documents, witness statements and the evidence of a new whistleblower, we can see a pattern of behaviour by the greek coastguard. after farzin khavand watched our investigation last month, he contacted us. he explained that he worked as a translator in a previous migrant boat case. he alleged the coastguard tried to frame two innocent men and threatened other survivors. they were told, if, unless you specify such and such, that these were the individuals who were people smugglers, you'll be treated unpleasantly, you will be put in prison and be returned to taliban.

as for this summer's disaster, nine egyptian men have been charged with manslaughter and people smuggling. the greek coastguard have not replied to these latest allegations. but there are now even more questions over what they have been doing on land and at sea. nick beake, bbc news. the england footballer dele has revealed that he was sexually abused as a child. the everton midfielder, once seen as one of football's brightest young talents, says he was "molested" at the age of six, started smoking at seven and was dealing drugs by the time he was eight years old. natalie pirks reports. for years, it seemed that dele had the world, as well as a football, at his feet. what a great goal! scoring for england at the 2018 world cup was the pinnacle. in from dele alli! but since then, it appeared as if he had been going off the rails.

now we know the answer to the question everyone in football had been asking — just what happened to dele? i was waking up every day, and i was winning the fight. you know, going into training smiling, showing that i was happy. but inside, i was definitely losing the battle. that battle was against sleeping tablets, drugs he'd been taking to mask the pain of a tumultuous childhood. he told former england footballer gary neville that at the age of six, he was molested by a friend of his alcoholic mother's. his father was absent, living in africa. by eight, he was dealing drugs. finally, when 12, he was adopted by what he describes as an amazing family. he no longer has contact with his birth parents. after a public falling out with his then coach at spurs, jose mourinho, he contemplated ending his career. i rememberjust looking in the mirror and it sounds dramatic, but i was literally staring at the mirror and i was asking if i could retire now, at 24, from doing the thing

i love. for me, that was heartbreaking. he says he believes the time is right to tell his story in a bid to help others, but admits his hand was forced after the tabloids discovered he was in rehab in america this summer. support from the world of football has flooded in, including the fa's president, prince william. for a sport often criticised for its approach to mental health, it was football, dele says, that saved his life. natalie pirks, bbc news. chinese intelligence is targeting the uk prolifically and aggressively, that is what the parliamentary intelligence and security committee has said in a damning report. our correspondent joe inwood is with me now. yes. damning report. our correspondent joe inwood is with me now. yes, this hue joe inwood is with me now. yes, this huge report — joe inwood is with me now. yes, this huge report produced _ joe inwood is with me now. yes, this huge report produced over _ joe inwood is with me now. yes, this huge report produced over four- joe inwood is with me now. yes, thisj huge report produced over four years huge report produced overfour years paints a stark picture of china, a country that has has the potential to be a technology and economic superpower. it finds a whole state

approach, meaning all the tools of the government and the economy and its citizens have been used to target the uk in a long—term way. it says the uk government has no strategy for combating it. they don't have a joined up approach and it is all short term. it also says that what the government is doing is looking for the covert rather than open infiltration. and it points to three area — academia. it says british universities are happy to take chinese money and are giving up secrets as a consequence. tech and industry, we are selling too many businesses, and chinese investment in nuclear is giving them a lever over the british state in the future. the government have welcomed the report and taken on some of the findings, but they say it is out of date and that the intelligence it gathered was over a couple of years old and that they had just passed a national security act in the last couple of days. but in the end, this comes down to the trade—off between security and prosperity, and this report says we are getting the balance wrong.— to wimbledon now, and it's

women's semi—finals day. andy swiss has been following it all for us. carrying the hopes of her country, elina svitolina roared onto centre court by ukrainian fans watching on the hill, and back home in kyiv, where she has become a national hero. but the semifinals are no place for sentiment, as marketa vondrousova showed. the czech player's had an equally unexpected run here. in fact, her husband stayed home to look after their cat. but after she blazed through the first set, svitolina was a picture of frustration. she briefly threatened to come back, winning three games in a row. still hoping. but soon, the dream was over. the first unseeded woman into the final for 60 years, but it's her opponent that has captivated these championships. she's such a fighter and also such she's such a fighter and also such a great person, so yeah, a great person, so yeah, i think it was a very tough match i think it was a very tough match

and i'm just very happy. and i'm just very happy. so who would she face, 0ns jabeur or aryna sabalenka? it looked tight on paper, it looked tight on paper, and that's exactly how it proved. and that's exactly how it proved. sabalenka edged the first set sabalenka edged the first set tie—break before jabeur tie—break before jabeur brilliantly hit back. brilliantly hit back. how's that for entertainment? how's that for entertainment? into a decider. into a decider. by now, though, 0ns jabeur by now, though, 0ns jabeur had the momentum and had the momentum and she was unstoppable. she was unstoppable. the tunisian into her the tunisian into her second wimbledon final in a row in some style. second wimbledon final the runner—up 12 months ago, the runner—up 12 months ago, could this finally be her year? could this finally be her year? yes, what a win that was for 0ns jabeur. she will start as the favourites against marketa vondrousova. britain also has a

finalist here. neal