The most striking pattern is that during the last parliament, a e performance started to drift away from target. It is now well off, down at 85 . The number is even lower. About 77 . If you look just at traditional, majora es. So called type ones. And dont think include things like walk in centres. 0ur hospitals are overfull. We are miles from where we need to be to hit our targets. It means my patients are waiting in the waiting room, maybe sometimes standing because there arent even enough chairs. Patients are waiting in corridors, patients may have to wait in the back of ambulances. And then when patients even get into a cubicle, sometimes there are two patients per cubicle, just with a temporary partition between them for a bit of privacy. It is sometimesjust a number, just a statistic. But it is having real effects to patients. Some individual hospital trusts have seen astonishing collapses in performance. Take the blackpool and Royal Cornwall trust. They were respectively at 61 and 77 last year. Both poor performances. This year, they dropped to 40 and 58 . The nhs is 70 years old this year, and we know by now the pressures on it will keep growing. Medicine is advancing so it can treat more stuff and our society is ageing. But the nhs budget has been growing at a historically slow rate since the onset of austerity under the coalition. It keeps becoming ever more efficient but it can no longer meet the demands being placed on it. The underlying problem is best illustrated by this chart. The number of people turning up to a es just keeps rising, and this isnt about people who should not be there skipping the queue at the gp. You can see that if you look at the past 12 months. The number of people turning up at major a es has risen by 1 but the number of people sick enough, turning up to a e who need admitting to hospital, is up by 5. 6 . The underlying pressure is that we are an ageing society with rising sickness levels. And this year, a bad case of flu. We are seeing the same as we saw last year with no change and it could just get worse and worse next year and the year after and that is the real worrying thing. Because we are at breaking point. Who knows where we will be if nothing changes by next year . There are no easy fixes here. The elastic wont spring back as winter thaws. Either we pay more in tax or well pay more in the form of worse health care. We asked the government and nhs england to join us tonight but nobody was available. In a statement, the department of health said it treated more than 55,000 people within the four hour target every day. Nhs england said it was dealing with rising flu and record numbers of admissions but that the service had managed to maintain a e performance at the same level as last january. Im joined by dr taj hassan, president of the Royal College of emergency medicine. We saw there figure is rising up. Very nice of you to come in. How accurately do the figures reflect what happens to you on an average shift . Described for us, if you can, your last shift. It was a busy one. It involved a significant number of patients in my department who we re coming in through the front door, but there was also a significant number of patients, unfortunately, that i and my staff were caring for a should have been on wards in the hospital. We are effectively managing a ward for a patient that should be within the hospital as well as the ones coming through the door, so that u nfortu nately creates what is called a crowded emergency department, or exit blocked, because we cant get them out of our department, and that causes delays in assessment, in antibiotics being given, and delays in pain relief. It compromises the dignity of the patients that we care for, which i think is one of the big things that nurses and doctors in our department is care about. When you say it compromises the dignity of patients, does it all so ultimately compromise their safety, or do you still feel confident that you are delivering the same levels of medicine . We work in a Health Service where i think we have amongst the best Health Care Workers in the world, people who were really, really hard, and they will go the extra mile, but unfortunately, the independent scientific evidence, both from the uk and internationally, shows that the more crowded your emergency department, the greater the risk of harm to patients, and that has been proven. This is not going to get better now, because of the demographics and the way that society is ageing, this is a problem that were going to live with or after solving a totally different way. I dont think it should be something that we should live with, because unfortunately, over the last five years, we have had a number of significant cuts in areas that have influenced that crowded emergency department. We have cut £6 billion out of social care funding, and that results in patients who are fit from hospital beds that need to be sent home, they and their families want them to be at home, and they cant get out of hospital. We have cut the number of acute hospital beds by approximately 15,000, which results in and exacerbates the exit blocked. Most importantly, we have had to compromise in terms of the number of staff that were able to employ, for a variety of reasons. And that is critical. Privately, are you having more hearing conversations by staff who are saying, actually, why would i carry on if i am five years away from retirement, or even ten years, and take the risk of ever doing something that could be damaging if i work in these conditions . Is that happening . Over the last few years, there has been a recognition that in my specialty, if you rank specialties for a potential for burn out than people leaving prematurely, emergency medicine sits at the top, and that is in the international ranking. We have been campaigning hard for the last year, and actually, last october, with the help of colleagues from nhs england and nhs improvement, especially people like jim mackie and si stephens, we were able to go to the secretary of state and agree is a formula and a framework by which we can deliver better staffing and grow our workforce and reduce attrition. The wider context is the environment that these people are working in, and that can only be influenced by investing. At the moment, in this country, we are not investing in social care and acute beds adequately. And were not investing in our staff. Thank you for coming in. Does anyone really think there should be a second referendum on our decision to leave the eu . The latest advocate of a return to the ballot box came from unexpected quarters this morning. Nigel farage told channel 5s the wright stuff that he was warming to the idea and believed a second vote would result in another much bigger win in favour of brexit. Have a listen. My mind is actually changing on this. Go on. What is for certain is that the cleggs, the blairs, the adonises will never, ever give up. They will go on whingeing and whining and moaning all the way through this process, so maybe, just maybe, im reaching the point of thinking that we should have a second referendum, because. On what . 0n eu membership. The whole thing . yes, of course, of course. Unless you want to have a multiple choice referendum, which would confuse people. No, no, no, i, i, i. I think if we had a second referendum on eu membership, wed kill it off for a generation. The percentage that would vote to leave next time would be very much bigger than it was last time round. I, i. It mayjust finish the whole thing off. Well be discussing this in moment with our guests here. But first, our political editor, nick watt, is here. Nick, the story doesnt end there . Thats right, a slight rowing back by nigel farage this evening in the daily telegraph. He has gone from what he said there, saying maybe we should have a second referendum, to saying, i fear that maybe there would be a second referendum if Parliament Vote down the deal. Today he spoke at because brexit supporters were strongly critical of him, and remain supporters said thank you very much. This was sparked off last week when tony blair said the british people should have the right to have a say, either in an election or a referendum on that final deal. Earlier today, i spoke to tony blairs former director of communications, alistair campbell, and is as what he had to say. And i think, actually, nigel farage, i think were the reason that farage and johnson and these guys are getting a little bit desperate and just trying to take the ball into the corner flag and just get the final whistle blown. Because i think they understand that as people do see the detail, do realise the cost and the chaos, then not only should they have the right to think again but i think they will want to think again and i think they will give you a very different answer. And everyone thinks that the polls would now go their way, which is fascinating. How do the polls sit . Interestingly, there is a snap poll in the daily mirror after those nigel farage remarks, showing there is minority support per second referendum, 15 51, but a majority support for remain, 55 45. It is a snap poll, better to look at the monthly tracker on that question, which asks, is it right or wrong to have left the eu . And that shows even stevens, though since august, it was wrong has been ahead. There was a blip of nine points for the league side. Today, we spoke to Deborah Martinson of britain thinks. So, weve been tracking this at britain thinks over the last 18 months and the really fascinating thing is that peoples fundamental views havent changed at all in that time. So really nothing has changed, other than people are more worried. But i think the one thing you have to factor in when you think about this is the youth vote. Of course, what we know is that many more young people voted in the last election, people who didnt vote in the referendum. If they still vote, then that could change things. Joining me now is diane james, the former leader of ukip, lucy thomas, who was Deputy Director of the remain campaign, and jeroen dijsselbloem, former dutch finance minister and outgoing president of the eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers. Nice to have all of you. Diane, what was he thinking . I am not sure what was he smoking . It took you by surprise . It did, this is the sort of thing nigel has got form with, he does have outrageous statements and in context, i will give my personal response, i can understand his frustration with the fact that the remainers have not given up trying to overturn this decision and when you hear that tony blair launches a £10 million fund and there are other organisations endorsed by the likes of sir nick clegg and such, they still want to overturn a democratic vote, it is quite unbelievable. It will be interesting to see where this goes. Would you be up for the fight . Of course i would. And i brought this document with me, this future of europe, this was released to the meps in october last year and this actually fleshes out the future of the european union. It is a frightening document in terms of control. When that is in the Public Domain it will be interesting to see how people react. Lucy, would you relish a Second Chance . For me it was a democratic decision, people have had their say and i want to ask nigel farage, why cant you accept that you have one . What do you not accept . I have no nigel farage for about ten years and he alone is the fight, he loves campaigning. You think this is about publicity . He wants to remain relevant. The point of diane was that nick clegg and tony blair do not feel this was undemocratic terms because of false promises, is at a reason to go back to the polls . There are some former remainers who would like a second referendum but going back to what nick said about the polls, Public Opinion has not shifted, there isnt any massive clamour for a second referendum and i dont think there is any big push for that. You can think about once the terms are known, where people to be suddenly up in arms and say we dont like these terms, do you want a second go . There are some former remainers who would like a second referendum but going back to what nick said about the polls, Public Opinion has not shifted, there isnt any massive clamour for a second referendum and i dont think there is any big push for that. You can think about once the terms are known, where people to be suddenly up in arms and say we dont like these terms, do you want a second go . But the polls are not there. You were at the vanguard of that, Deputy Director, would you fight this in a different way . Did you look back with your head in your hands at the way the remain campaign went about that . I think it was a very Hard Campaign to fight. Given that people, when we first started, it was 50 50, when we spoke to focus groups there was no real concept of what the positives of remaining wearer. Of what the positives of remaining were. Within six months, there was a huge amount of work to do to land those positives, what do we get from being in the eu . It is a very hard discussion, not least because in a referendum when there are choices and it is a very conjugated complicated question, people can put all sorts of Different Things into the pot. And are voting to take back control or whatever it is they choose to put into the pot. Jeroen djesselbloem, what is europe thinking about brexit right now . Today, after this cry from the second referendum . I have not heard anybody in brussels arguing for a second referendum. I think people in brussels are waiting for what does the uk government want to have in the end deal . What does it look like . We want clarity to move forward on that. It is up to the uk government to decide what that looks like . To have a negotiating position, indeed. Very helpful. No one in brussels is questioning the mandate that the uk government has coming out of the first referendum, that is quite clear, there is going to be brexit. We are trying to sort out these complicated questions, what does it look like, the future relationship . My argument, we focus on trying to solve these issues and minimise the losses because is going to be losses on all sides. Let us focus on that rather than reopen the debate and going back to zero. There is a delicious irony that the only person questioning the mandate is the former leader of ukip, nigel farage does it suggest, as lucy said, that he just wants to be back in the centre of attention . Or does he think that it is not convincing enough people that this is going in the right direction . He has got two objectives, he wants to expose the degree of resistance from the remainers, that still is with them in terms of their absolutely determined to overturn that decision. I am not at all and i see it as a democratic decision, there isnt this. But tony blair and nick clegg are leading this remain issue of overturning that democratic decision. And the labour party is being very interesting in terms of denying its position that everything at once currently would mean staying in the eu. That is absolutely not right, to quote nigel farage, he said before the referendum that if it were to be narrow and 52 remain, 48 to leave, that would be unfinished business, and what he said he would carry on fighting for. For those people who were former remainers and want a second go, nigel farage himself said 52 42 was too narrow. What has changed . We have tony blair, nick clegg, nigel farage, sitting in a particular corner saying, wait a minute, we still believe, given our previous position, that it is unfinished business. I am agreeing with you. The point was we think we have left europe in a certain place but europe has moved on. Europes more interested and in more integration post britain . That has been the talk . You have to realise and the people in the uk have to understand that brexit is no longer on the front pages in europe and has not been for some months. It is on the front pages in the uk every day, the first three pages. If you open up the papers on the continent you will find very little. Nobody in europe is trying to convince britain to stay . You will find individuals. But there is no drive to reopen this debate. That is not entirely true, the german Automotive Industry in the last few days highlighted the dangers that brexit is going to have. Because of the degree of the volume of cars exported. You are agreeing with the german manufacturing is . i am simply highlighting that there is an industry that is. Added was in built, to say it is not covered by the European Press is untrue. Do you think the concept of no deal is a very clever way of bringing europe right to the table . Where theresa may needs to start negotiations . My sense is that some strategic politicians in the uk thought that if they said, if they threatened us with no deal, that would be helpful for their position. It has completely backfired because in europe people are preparing fo the possible outcome of no deal and the British Government is in panic. How can it be that they are preparing no deal . It is going to be a bad situation, it is a bad decision, the car industry is right. It is a political fact for us. And we need to concentrate on minimising the damage and getting a good outcome. Isnt the truth that the europe we will leave in two years will be a very different shape and feel to the europe were part of right now . Yes and that is why nigel farage was talking about the referendum, into what . What would the terms be . It is not right to say we would go into what we had before. I would agree entirely, the decision has been made, europe is moving on and brexit will happen. Thank you all very much indeed. Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here . That, according to the washington post, is what donald trump today uttered during a meeting aimed at finding a cross party deal on immigration. This revelation comes hot on the heels of Michael Wolffs book on the trump white house. A bit like any tweet by the president , fire and fury has caused a stir the ramifications of which may not truly be understood for some time to come. What we do know is that a bad tempered tiff between the president and his former white house advisor steve bannon over the contents of wolffs book has changed the dynamics of the us Political Climate with his departure this week from Breitbart News. Michael wolff is with us for his very first british tv interview, joining us from new york. Did you feel when you were writing this book, but in this book together, did you feel as if you are trying to bring down the president . Quite the opposite. I went into this project, into the white house, with an entirely open mind. I really would have been willing to write a book about the unexpected success of donald trump. That, of course, is not what i found, quite the opposite. I find a white house filled with the people closest to him who turned out to be the people most worried about him. When you talk about going into the white house, the details are fascinating from any of us. Give us some sense of your access. Donald trump he denies he spoke to you or that you had any access, did you walk into the same place every time . Did you say hello to the same people . Yes, exactly. Donald trumps says that i had no access and no permission because i was there for the better part of seven months. You have to ask the question, how do they get there . You have to ask the question, how did i get there . And the answer is, donald trump. I said to donald trump and he says he doesnt know me but we have known each other for 20 years. At any rate, i said that i would like to come and be an observer at the white house and he thought i was asking for a job. I said i wanted to write a book. And his face fell with absolute lack of interest in the idea of the book. But he said ok, knock yourself out. And with that, using that, but basically became the Carte Blanche for me to enter the white house, to stay there, to sit down with almost every member of the senior staff again and again. And with donald trump himself, how many times would you say that you conversed with him personally since becoming president . I have said from the beginning on this that i have spent about three hours with donald trump through the campaign, the transition and in the white house. Since he became president , how long would that have been . From the inauguration onwards, we had one on the record session and then i would see him in the west wing and then i would see him in the west wing and we would chat. We did not presumably see steve bannon quitting Breitbart News as a direct consequence of this book, did you . I did not anticipate that, it seems to have been the outcome. My question is, you think that balance remains a key figure on my question is, you think that bannon remains a key figure on the ideological right . Will trump be weakened or strengthened without bannon . Will he lose his base . Where he goes soft or does it make the next year of elections easier for him . I dont think we know the answer to this. It might well mean that trump goes to the traditional republican side, does not run the sort of wing nut party in congressional races and it gives the republicans an advantage. That is one scenario. Another is that steve bannon decides to take down donald trump. Could he do that . Without breitba rt news . I dont know. Steve bannon, his title was chief strategist in the white house and he is nothing if not the ultimate strategist. I would anticipate that at this point he is thinking through his options. But i felt that when he spoke to me for this book, he was making, on his way to making a calculated break with the president , who honestly, he seemed to regard as an idiot. I want to pick up on some of the criticism of the book, letting conflicting narratives get told, unclear whether he had been told these things first hand, whether you had conversations, some say it is directly out of Donald Trumps own playbook. Why not make it more rigorous . Yes, let me talk a little about this book. The book has become something more than a book, it has become a political event. That means it is going to be the subject of an enormous amount of controversy, it means that a lot of people said things to me and now they find themselves like deers in the headlights. Myjob on this book and i really had just one goal, it was too, as i sat there every day on a couch in the west wing, to bring the reader right there. So that the reader could experience what i experience. You dont regret the fact that it is so unfiltered . No. Myjob is to bring an absolutely unfiltered account. It has been enormous controversy about that but what i would say is that there is room for a lot of interpretations of this white house, not only room but there will be so it is notjust. There are daily reporters doing a good job of covering the white house. But my account, and it is an account that has obviously resonated with people, apparently everywhere, it is a contextual story of what has happened. 0ver these number of months. Let me ask you. At this point you have written the book after he became president. Manyjournalists are questioning how they covered the campaign, is there any guilt that you or your colleagues were much too caught up in a very sensational, sexy story to cover . If you were going back right now, you would be covering trump in a very different way . Well, i dont know. I am not sure that i have any colleagues, which is part of the interesting thing that allowed me to write a totally independent version of this white house. But i think, from the beginning, there has been a problem. Nobody has known how to cover donald trump. When this administration began, many in the media said we cannot normalise this person. Effectively, the Media Coverage has formalised it. Effectively, the Media Coverage has normalised it. So the explosions every day have become so normal that we can no longer member what happened the day before. I would maintain that i actually may have found a way to write about this presidency and this president. Great to have you. Thank you. Time for viewsnight now. The concert pianist james rhodes publishes a memoir this week, fire on all sides, in which he recounts his experience of suffering from mental illness. This is his take on the pursuit of happiness. Were not meant to be happy all of the time. No one knows for sure how many civilians were killed in the battle to liberate the city of mosul from the so called Islamic State. The city was the groups last urban stronghold in iraq before it was retaken lastjuly by the countrys army with the help of Us Led Coalition forces. Amnesty international has reported that the civilian death toll could be up to 10,000 more than ten times the official estimate. Nafiseh kohnavard from the Bbcs Persian Service has returned to mosul, where the citys former old town lies in ruins and life for ordinary iraqis has anything but returned to normal. This street used to be the beating heart of the old part of mosul, iraqs second most populated city. Even for a country which has seen many battles over the years, the destruction here is unprecedented. Mosul fighting to drive so called Islamic State out of its main stronghold in iraq has left large parts of this city in ruins. Only three years ago, you could hear the noise of shops, restaurants and busy traffic navigating through the streets. They have now been replaced by a deafening silence and a strong stench of death in the air. Bodies of Islamic State fighters are lying around unburied. And for survivors like ahmad, the struggle hasnt ended. Translation this is the city that i grew up in, and we were proud of it. Its a shame. Look now, nothing is left of it, especially in the west side. Its completely devastated, and there are no services here as well. He has lost eight members of his family here but still hasnt been able to find and bury their bodies. This is the first time he returns to whats left of the home hejust bought five years ago. Translation is came to my familys neighbourhood and asked them to leave and replaced them with their own families. The first one who died was my brother in law, while he was trying to bring water from the river. He died from mortar shelling. Then my sister in law, who just got a little sick. At that time, is were moving people from house to house, so they didnt want to have someone ill with them, so they killed her and threw her body into the river. For the Security Forces now in charge of the city, the biggest challenge is to build up trust with mosuls residents. People who survived the airstrikes are marked as possible is sympathisers. For some, its impossible to return to their homes without an authorisation signed by the new rulers. Translation this is a dilemma. These people should go through security checks to make sure that they were not with is. There are not very well known is members who we can only find through the people here, as local people know their faces, so we need first to identify them before we are able to let these people go back to their houses. The task to rebuild mosul and clear the city of its rubble will take years. Driving is fighters out of the narrow alleys of the old city took many months. These same streets and buildings with plenty of remaining death traps are proving to be the most difficult to clear. In some parts of mosul, the smell of death is pungent, even after months since the battle for the city ended. The bodies of many residents are still trapped under the rubble, and there are people still looking to find out what happened to their lost loved ones. We witnessed the operation to recover the bodies of this mans three nephews. The eldest was only 12 years old. Translation these are my sisters children. They were in another neighbourhood, but is brought them here by force. Two days before we were bombed, i managed to talk to them. My nephew was telling me, uncle, ijust pray that our area be liberated so that i can come to you, and so we can play playstation. Despite all these difficulties, efforts to rebuild mosul have started, and the new authorities are trying to clear all visible destruction. But the deeper underlying scars and wounds will take much longer to heal. Nafiseh kohnavard there. Thats it for tonight. Before we go, you may have heard that singer lana del rey is being threatened with legal action by radiohead for the full rights to her song, get free, which they say sounds like their 1992 anthem, creep. But radioheads people are now making more friendly noises, while del reys fans took to social media to remind us that creep was itself a rip off of the hollies from 1974, for which radiohead were themselves successfully sued. Were looking forward to fresh copyright claims from the 1950s tomorrow. Until then, you decide who takes home the pot of gold. Good night. Lana del rey take the dead out of the sea. And the darkness from the arts. This is my commitment. My modern manifesto. Radiohead i wanna perfect body. I wanna perfect soul. The hollies peace came upon me. And it leaves me weak. Radiohead shes running out. Shes run, run, run, ruuuuuun. The hollies all i need is the air that i breathe. Yes to love you. All i need is the air that i breathe. Lam going i am going to be the first to admit the weather has not been exciting this week. Look at the satellite. Lot of cloud. Breaks in Western Areas in the cloud. A bit of sunshine. For most, disappointing and grey. Cloud touching the top of the tallest buildings in london. More of the same to come. Things are not changing at the moment because we have low pressure in greenland and High Pressure in finland miles away from the uk. Light wind. Nothing to move the weather. Through the night we see mist and fog. The worst of that towards somerset. Northern ireland is looking a bit bad as well. Clear spells in scotla nd bad as well. Clear spells in scotland allowing a frost. 8 in the north. Friday, you can see how extensive the cloud is. Sunny breaks coming through in england, wales, Northern Ireland, and western scotland. A swathe of central and Eastern England stuck with cloud. The occasional drizzle. Some bright spells. 0n the whole, a cloudy day. Friday evening and overnight, changes in the west. A weather front approaching. Spreading rain into Northern Ireland before getting into the south west of wales, south west england, by the end of the night. Ahead of that, the same story. Drizzle. Clear skies in northern scotland. Frost free. That is how we start the weekend. If you are in the Western Areas, the weather front will be slow moving. It could remain for most of the day, not going far east. Further east, cloud. Probably a few more breaks in east anglia in south east england. Now, for sunday, another atlantic front moving into the north west. More rain with that. Ahead of that, bright spells. As the band of rain goes east through sunday night and monday, it will clear. And then the weather gets exciting again. Cold air coming down from the north west. With that, a change in the weather on the way for early next week. Turning colder. Windy. Very windy for a time early on in the week. Snow around. Across the north, in the hills, but especially, northern hills. And that is your latest weather. This is newsday, on bbc. Im rico hizon, in singapore. The headlines more violent protests in pakistan after the rape and murder of a 6 Year Old Girl her body was found in a rubbish dump. Hundreds of rescue workers continue the desperate search for those missing in the california mudslides. Im kasia madera, in london. Also in the programme we speak to Steven Spielberg about his nixon era film, and why the director sees echoes of the current leader, donald trump. Anybody that offends,