huw.newsnight and it is my colleague kirsty presenting tonight, that is on bbc two. and they arejust preparing tonight, that is on bbc two. and they are just preparing to go on air now, here on bbc one as you know our colleagues in the nations and regions standing by with the news where you. but from all of us on the ten team. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are lord digbyjones, the former uk trade minister, and kate maltby, columnist on the i newspaper. but first let's have a look at tomorrow's front pages. the front page of the financial times is about "anti—strike legislation" — they report that rishi sunak is coming under pressure from tory mps to accelerate it. meanwhile, the is focussing on strep a and warns that the government may have to buy extra antibiotics to protect children from infections. the metro's front page is dedicated to the tory peer michelle mone — the daily mirror is highlighting the grief of stella li

huw merriman says he described today as an open and constructive conversation and mick lynch said he there are still many difficult issues, many hurdles to clear, but we are told talks will continue over the weekend. aha, we are told talks will continue over the weekend-— the weekend. a bit of light at the end of that _ the weekend. a bit of light at the end of that railway _ the weekend. a bit of light at the end of that railway tunnel. - the weekend. a bit of light at the end of that railway tunnel. thankj end of that railway tunnel. thank you, marc ashdown. 0n the final day of his visit to america, prince william has been meeting president biden. and later tonight he'll present the earthshot prize, for environmental innovation. it comes after a trailer was released for a documentary on prince harry and meghan, which is expected to give their take on why they've stepped away from royal duties. 0ur royal correspondent daniela relph reports from boston. where is your topcoat? against a city skyline, a prince and a president. they've met three times before but this is the first time i

huw edwards: the bbc is interrupting its normal programmes to bring you an important announcement.m palace has announced the death of her majesty queen elizabeth ii. in a statement, the palace said the queen died peacefully at balmoral this afternoon. a stable centre during a reign of immense change, the only monarch most have known. people wanted to pay their respects. the day after his mother's death, the new king, charles iii, returned to london from balmoral with camilla, the queen consort. before going into buckingham palace, he met the crowds gathered outside. cheering. then a first walk through the gates as king and queen consort. from here, he made his first address to the nation as sovereign. and to my darling mama, as you begin your last greatjourney tojoin my dear late papa, i want simply to say this. thank you. thank you for your love and devotion to our family and to the family of nations you have served so diligently all these years. may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. the days ahead were filled with ritual and ceremony, some of it dating back centuries. the

the bbc�*s huw edwards has more details.lance trust has agreed something different so the level of provision will depend on where you live. now, when you call 999 ambulance staff in england put the calls into a category. category one is for life—threatening injuries or illnesses, like cardiac arrest. you then have category to which is for emergency calls such as strokes. category 3 is classed as urgent and includes the later stages of labour. category four is less urgent calls and for example could be an attack of vomiting. we asked each ambulance trust affected by strike action which of these calls union members would respond to. now, not all of them replied in some .net give specific details but we have a few examples from those who did. so, let's take east midlands ambulance service. they told us that their striking members would respond to all life—threatening category one calls. in some circumstances they would respond to the most serious category to calls including strokes or gynaecological emergencies, road collisions

stories and we get a chance to go through it with some brilliantjournalists and presenters in the bbc, huwbbc news legend, and we get to go through them as well and pick some of the best ones. it's really interesting. i wonder if you've notice any themes. we were just hearing about the cost of living just there, you must notice as the years go by different themes, different issues coming up? yes, one of the things i have noticed a lot, over the last year or two are stories about children's anxiety levels and i think a lot of that stems from covid and lockdowns and the children being worried about what is going on during that time. we had a story on newsround about a young girl who suffers from anxiety and in order to combat that she has a chickens now in her garden. she spends afternoons after coming home from schooljust relaxing with a chickens and that has really calmed her down. that has been a quite strong theme and i think in general children are suffering with anxiety more than ever before, so i think that has come through. but really, i think it is just children wanting to shine a l

the rmt union leader is meeting rail minister huw merriman today.k to the union and see what they come up with. i have a feeling it might be modest, that is the polite word. poultry might be another word. we will see how that goesin another word. we will see how that goes in the next two days. starting at half past eight women who attended a. it is definitely moving, it is different to the past six month but we have to see whether it is meaningful orjust window is meaningful or just window dressing, is meaningful orjust window dressing, as they say. a by—election in chester has seen labour hold the city of chester seat with an increased share of the vote. it�*s a blow to rishi sunak in his first by—election test as prime minister. the contest was triggered by the resignation of christian matheson. samantha dixon, a local councillor in the city, increased labour�*s majority to nearly 11,000 and secured labour�*s best ever result in the seat. i think it�*s very decisive, i think it shows that voters in chester really are fed up with the government. i

sport and for a full round—up, from the bbc sport centre, here's huw.in the world cup final, argentina leading france by 2—0 still. the first goal came from the man who provided the focus for so many out of the game, lionel messi had the chance after a foul on angel di maria, to open the scoring from the penalty spot. and he very much to do so. and in this penalty he scores a sixth goal of these finals, he is up there on his own, leading the golden boot standings. a record 26 world cup appearance for him. he was then involved in one of the best goals in world cup final history, sumptuous move on the break, leading to alexis mcallister laying it on for angel di maria to make a 2—0 in the 36th minute. these are some of the live pictures on the bbc coverage from qatar. four minutes before the break didier deschamps, the french coach, made two rather surprised substitutions. he has tried to change things. but his side, bearing in mind they are the defending champions, hoping to win back—to—back trophies for the first time since brazil 16 years ago, i've not

chief economist huw pill has already said they want to be running in the background with interest rates the active tool so the focus is on the rate decision. francine: thanks so much, lizzy burden on the bank of england. there are five decisions today including ecb, which is just as important especially when it comes to rolling down qt. we have the philippines, switzerland, taiwan, norway and the ecb. i don't know whether we have charts. also have a look at what that means for euro-dollar, and the underlying concerns on inflation. the ecb decision guide is what they will do with qt to slow the recent pace of rate increases, but also today we are expecting an outline to shrink its 5 trillion euros of bonds to curb the inflation that is five times their target. we were speaking tom: two maria tadeo about this and she was saying the risk premium has come off of btp's. there has been concerns that the new prime minister in italy may not follow the rules set by brussels. those concerns have come off a bit. btp's are 3.88 on the 10-year, 2.74 on the two-year, so a move higher at the front end

sport and for a full round—up, from the bbc sport centre, here's huw ferries.r way and it'll provide the opposition for the winner of the second, which is of course between england and senegal. 0livier giroud could have given them the lead midway through the first half. but poland, playing their first world cup knockout game since 1986, had three good chances in a minute — piotr zielinski and jakub kaminski both foiled, before kylian mbappe played in giroud, who finished neatly to become france's all—time leading goal—scorer with his 52nd international goal. that was just a minute before half—time. this is 15 minutes into the second half. it is live on bbc one and indeed via the bbc website. antoine griezmann launches another attack for france attempting to secure the lead because poland have certainly been plucky opponents to the extent they have had those chances we showed you. they seem to have been saving all their energy for this one after a pretty lacklustre group stage from poland, they have been very much in this one but france with their pedigree leadi

last night rmt leaders met with the rail minister, huw merriman and industry representatives and it nowurther negotiations are likely. representatives and it now appears i think most people recognise that in a situation where the industry's passenger numbers and revenue are still significantly below where we were in 2019, that there is a customer and a colleague benefit for those reforms to take place. travellers today suggested talks should be a priority. people have a right to strike. that's fine. but everyone needs to get around the table and talkl to each other to stop _ inconveniencing everyone else. i understand why they're doing it, but i think the timing, along with all the other strikes, is unnecessary. they are trying to change all their rights and working practices, not just the financial implications. so i do understand why they've been pushed to strike. the rmt has called on the industry to act quickly and bring forward new proposals that it can put to its members. but any solution is likely to require compromises on both sides. joining me now from paddington station is our

use that to help provide feedback long the journey up to the state of california so they understand huwed more time or need the funds on going manner. we have brave analysts in condition tracts crew among the tome that will try to do this the next year. but it it is absolutely not ape perfect situation. >> okay. thank you. any other questions from commissioners. i thought a tremendous opportunity. you know huge allocation of resource. unfortunately it it is not always a problem with funding strolls from the statement isn't this an excellent opportunity for enhanced out reach like beyond what we ever done before in terms of letting people know about the potential resource. how much more there might be available it people and utilize thanksgiving. you know utilizing the challenge as an opportunity to just expand. >> creativity and innovation. >> yes. >> and also getting people into the centers or whatever and really helping them to gain access am am where access difficult they have and actually -- work. seemed like you would plan on putting money those things and that is good. it seems lik

in terms huwe address that we have flexibility within the street tree sf program to allocate resources if wore not spending on staff we pivot that funding to contractors. over time we want to be reduce the relines on contractors and have a stronger in house staff. but in the meantime we're able to shift the resources to contractors. the impact to doing the tree prune and maintenance work is in the as great as could be if we did not have the flex automobile. i see we know it is hard it hire in the difficulties and adding of new i think everyone agrees we need more taking care of trees and more confree work. work plans and staff up the teams seen them before we can fund and fund things the ability to hire the qualified people no moert matter how much path ways. i think it puts at risk the promising whether you are doing it or not and more than you can deliver on. i think you don't want to get ahead on that. so. >> i feel that responsibility. the money is allocated and if i pay for it and expect that. and so we want to sell the approximate suspicions. and i hope with hr positions expandin

as the other bodies requested terror preparing in order to track whether we are make progress and huwe are making it. >> 2 more areas the stroll lining housing approvals. you heard a bit about that. the interagency coordination to start go from the beginning to end of the projects it ensure consistency. to save time. to simplify the process we are also addressing the nondiscretionary approval for a number of housing types and situations. and its -- we have emphasized time and gwen this we are complying and proposing and committed to comply with the state program if you are know there are a number of state program in legislation coming to us and we are make a commitment to address those and also figure out how we can simplify our ceqa process if relationship to projects. the last one this support twhoon focus on what happens if we don't make enough progress? if we go through 4 years and we don't have enough building permits? and where we landed on was first claire fight zoning and again address all state requirements that -- were proposing that -- 4 years from the enactment of the plan

comfwhien and it does foal like a heightened moment approximate that's huwe respond to this is important. as part of our -- budget instructions and thinking through the process and a plan this makes sense we did look back 5 dwroers look how much spent and it was interesting look to see what is deliverable. and i have to say that just based on the numbers does not seem like the pandemic made a difference. there are factor there is. if you ask a project manager they will tell you it made it challenging to deliver work. it has been challenging to deliver work and now given the environment it is more challenging. it is just behooves us to look at when we budget and make sure we do right by rate payors and budget the right amount. >> thank you very much. i have 2 other comments and questions. one is you brought up draught as how it is like factor impacting our budget and rates and comments. i asked before and mentioned to general manager herrera, i do want to look not for power but also not just water but for power. and decoupling the rates i really continuing is going to be helpful to us to

i have just heard huw merriman talking about a generous officer, it is not generous, it is way below network rail knows what he has got to do but i don't think they have been allowed to do that because of some ideological stance by the government at the moment. we ideological stance by the government at the moment.— at the moment. we 'ust heard from andrew haines, i at the moment. we 'ust heard from andrew haines, he i at the moment. we just heard from andrew haines, he says _ at the moment. we just heard from andrew haines, he says that - at the moment. we just heard from andrew haines, he says that all- at the moment. we just heard from | andrew haines, he says that all talk of the government getting involved or not is a red herring, he says, it's up to you, and he says you are just not up for the idea of reform. he says you just don't want to settle this dispute, you are against the principle of reform in the railways. the principle of reform in the railwa s. . , the principle of reform in the railwa s. ., , ., , , railways. that is utter nonsense. he is makin: railways. that is u