professorjulian downward from the francis crick institute.hey turned down the latest government offer aimed at resolving their long—running pay dispute. more than half of members voting in a royal college of nursing ballot rejected the proposal of a 5% pay rise and one—off bonus. let's speak to our correspondent, simonjones, who's at st thomas' there is a split, though, isn't there of opinion amongst nurses on this? talk us through it, simon. yes, a complicated picture because we have the royal college of nursing rejecting that 5% pay increase, but then we had another union, unison, which represents some nurses but largely paramedics and ambulance staff who voted to accept that 5% pay increase. so you may have a situation going forward when staff are from the royal college of nursing her due to stage another work—out at the end of this month, their shifts may be filled by staff from the unison union, who may step in. they have accepted the pay offer. it is all very difficult for nhs bosses to calculate the effect of this, but they say what th

the reserachers at the francis crick institute say the researchers at the francis crick institute say the body spot these viruses, which could lead to improved treatment and prevention of cancer. the bbc�*s science correspondent, james gallgher has been explaining what researchers have found. it's absolutely fascinating and it starts from an idea that i don't think many of us are particularly comfortable with, the idea that we're actually something like 8% virus in the first place rather than being entirely human. and that's because over millions of years, a type of virus called a retrovirus has infected our ancestors. we are going back a long time here. and it leaves behind the trace of its own genetic instructions, those structures for building that virus inside our own genetic code, inside our dna, and that's still there today. now, our bodies have used some of that for their own purposes, but a lot of the time itjust completely suppresses those viral instructions. now, the thing that happens inside cancer, and that's what this study at the francis crick institute has shown, is tha

now, the thing that happens inside cancer, and that's what this study at the francis crick instituteat happens when our cells go out of control and descend into chaos. and what happens in that moment is that some of those ancient millions—of—years—old viruses start to be woken up and start to be produced in our cells again. so what this study showed is that at that point, the immune system can start recognising, thinks, hey, wait a minute, these cells are infected, and tries to destroy them. and that's part of how the body is attacking cancers inside our body — by recognising these ancient viruses. you'd just prefer it if your immune system would attack the cancerous tumour anyway, wouldn't you? it's so bizarre. so you have to wait for there to be a virus on it for it to attack in order for it to attack the tumour, right? well, what the immune system is, is attacking the tumours anyway, but this seems to be an extra process that's going on. so in this study, which looked at lung cancer patients, they spotted the patients that had better outcomes — the ones that were more likely to su

reseachers at the francis crick institute say the discovery could help them develop vaccines, which couldention of cancer. germany's last remaining nuclear power plants will be switched off later. berlin pledged to quit nuclear power definitively after the 2011 fukushima disaster injapan. anti—nuclear campaigners have welcomed the move, describing it as a "triumph." but energy prices remain high in the country. i put it to our correspondent in berlin, jenny hill, that this has been a controversial topic in germany for a number of years. when those three remaining nuclear plants are disconnected — it'll all happen just before midnight tonight — that will end 60 years of nuclear energy production in this country. and for the people around me here, that is a cause for celebration. some of them have campaigned for decades for this moment. they argue that nuclear energy production is unsafe, they worry about accidents, they worry about the storage of radioactive waste, and they say the money invested in this sector would be better spent on more sustainable forms of energy in the future. but th

the reserachers at the francis crick institute say the discovery could help them develop vaccines thatese viruses, which could lead to improved treatment and prevention of cancer. a 21—year—old member of the us air national guard has appeared in court in boston accused of leaking highly—sensitive military intelligence. jack teixeira has been charged with two counts related to the unauthorised removal, retention and transmission of classified documents and materials. he faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. the trove of leaked papers has revealed sensitive us assessments of the war in ukraine and secrets about america's allies. jack teixeira's family were in court to support him, as our correspondent, barbara plett usher, reports from boston. the suspect, jack teixeira, appeared in the courthouse behind me and we heard more details about how the investigators tracked him down — that was through the discord messaging platform on which the documents were posted. so, they checked out his billing records and they interviewed some of his social media friends and it was clarified that