leadership that is going to be moving forward however we have to recognize our name is the national union of students therefore we vest the represent the national voice of students and for me personally it's about winning for the student in the arguments out there so i would do whatever necessary to be able to get the argument and get education to be of the option for everyone but isn't the problem the students as a repeatedly colluded with governments that are brought in tuition fees and when you say you represent the all the national union students isn't the reneging on promises to students remember the turnout leaves recent figures maybe the last three years available to it in your selections the turnout was seventeen point eight three percent i mean you can see getting more of the. i mean where democratic organization and we're led by a members we have policy for free education and that is something that we are there to however we need to win for our students and and do whatever possible foot for us to be able to to get that win like i said before the recent general election result and the number

called for a ‘national debate' over tuition fees, but the nus said students wanted to see ‘actions, not words' from the government. amatey doku, the deputy president of the national unionthe deputy president of the national union of students, the liberal democrats famously accused of a u—turn on this issue. do you have regrets now about what you did in government? all the political parties some ways made a mess of their position on tuition fees. if we look at the fundamentals about the new system and what it has delivered to date, we can see its record in helping defunding of new places in university has been good, and more students from disadvantaged records have gone on to attend university. that is good. one of the changes in today's report that i am concerned about the money to keep an eye on is that since the original big increase in fees, the system has been tilted to be less favourable towards disadvantaged students. partly because of the loans. the interest rates. well, yes, and what was initially going to be a maintenance grant, money actually given to the poorest students to help support the university has been changed recently into a maintenance loan. that c

we want that right now and as the national union of students we should have a seat on that represent ckons he will have around £60,000 worth of debt but still things to receive fees are a good idea. —— still things tuition fees area idea. —— still things tuition fees are a good idea. charlie gard's parents return to the high court today with new evidence which they hope will save his life. the 11—month—old little boy is terminally—ill, having been born with a rare genetic condition which means he can't move or breathe without a ventilator. i'm joined by our health correspondent fergus walsh. sorry, i was looking over there and you are here! so, first of all, what is happening this afternoon? 0n is happening this afternoon? on friday, great ormond street asked the original high courtjudge, robert francis, to have a look at some new evidence that was sent in a letter on friday morning, so it is all happening very quickly, from the vatican's children's all happening very quickly, from the vatican's child ren's hospital, signed by seven doctors and researchers, saying there was unpublishe

student at manchester uni. in birmingham we have a former cambridge graduate, vice president of the national stu d e nts vice president of the national students unionurs be? i should imagine about 50 5000. how do you deal with the £28,000 debt? mentally i put it to one side. in terms of my salary, that coming out, that is where it is quite a lot of money where i could be saving for a house. do you mind me asking what you pay back each month? roughly about £58. not for hire, but with travel and rent in london, it is quite a lot taken to my salary. that is what you spent on education? i definitely think it is worth it. in terms, i'm glad i did not come in at the higher fees, i don't know whether my decision would have been affected. luke, when you start repaying this, when you reach the current fresh older 21,000, that may change as the years go by. how will you approach it? i'm not going to worry about it. it is more like tax. comes out from your employer 's contributions to your salary. i don't think it will affect me day today. you will always have that debt. not like new debt you have to worry about paying for stuff comes out of your wages every

it made me think back to the trip he took to south africa, at the invitation of the south african national students unioni am wondering, the complexities of his relationship to the cia is very intriguing. did you come across interesting aspects of that? what will surprise people, because he was sucked into the bay of pigs, he became quite an advocate of covert operations. people who nsa launched the anti-world festivals -- counter festivals, met with him and were praised for their work. presidents, he was being reassured that all past presidents had cooperated with the cia and he adored the kennedy family. said, would you like to have your picture taken with robert kennedy? supportive of these writes a lotur about these. it is not directly in a -- in a footnote. one of his rationales was, he saw foreign policy was shifting, it was not just diplomat to diplomat. rotterinvolving much constituencies whether they were students or journalist or lawyers. in the fall of 1967, a number of us who were entering graduate programs here at uc berkeley were at five-year fellowships from the ford foundation. -- find be

it made me think took tothe trip he south africa, which was at the invitation of the south african national students union, i think. -- thendering complexities of his relationship to the cia and so forth is intriguing. i am wondering if you came across interesting aspects of that in researching this? karen: what will surprise people, because he was so furious about his brother being sucked into the bay of pigs, he actually became quite an advocate of covert operations. from the eisenhower regime. many of the nsa people who launched the anti-world festivals -- counter festivals -- met with him and were praised for their work. one of the nsa presidents, ed garvey, he was being reassured that all past presidents had cooperated with the cia, and he adored the kennedy family. when bob kiley said, would you like to have your picture taken with robert kennedy? he said he felt like he had died and gone to heaven. he was very supportive of these kinds -- arthur schlesinger writes a lot about these. it is in a footnote. one of his rationales was, he saw foreign policy was shifting, that it was not just diplomat to

national health service and all birth or ease the nursing and midwifery and allied health unions to be cancelled the n.h.s. already all to be damaged by huge austerity cuts i've seen a number of student nurse applications drop over twelve thousand five hundred places from last year this already on top of the forty thousand vacant nurse post in england. protest is a quarter of this new fracking site in lancashire have been receiving a frosty reception from local police and what demonstrators say is all forward to putting the interests of big business over their right to protest our approach right from the word go has been that we want to have the very low key policing operation we want to engage with negotiate we want to facilitate. wherever possible we want to allow people out right to protest the scenes they say maybe the battle of all grief where police allegedly assaulted miners striking against margaret thatcher's government attempts to shut down britain's coal industries the possibility of a nuclear winter may have been averted this week as today strikes of a pensions atomic weapons establishment fight nor do mass that imperfect old have been suspended due to the government poli