Also on the programme. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says trumps actions amount to bribery, escalating the stakes in the impeachment battle. Politics can be a ruff job. Luckily for staffers on capitol hill yesterday, some Furry Friends were on hand to help. Hello and welcome im Christian Fraser in london and Michelle Fleury is in new york. Health care is a major talking point in any election. And especially so here in the uk. The nhs is our most cherished institution. Funded by public money, free at the point of use but today it is a service under enormous pressure. New figures out today will make grim reading for government. In october one in six patients in england waited longer than the four hour target. In england waited longer nearly 4. 5 million are waiting for a routine operation. In the uk healthcare is a devolved issue scotland, wales and Northern Ireland are also missing their targets. All the parties are proposing in this campaign to increase the nhs budget. Were joined now by
A lack of confidence in its negotiation partners will this mean fresh elections will bring you the latest. Welcome to the show talks to form a new Coalition Government for germany have broken down after one of the parties involved withdrew from the negotiations the business friendly f. D. P. Party says it had lost confidence in chancellor merkels consist conservative alliance and the greens and had decided to withdraw from the table a News Conference is expected to begin any time now in the meantime lets listen to what f. T. P. Party leader Christian Lin had to say. To date no new movement no further movement was attained we took steps backward instead of making progress because agreed on compromises were once again thrown into doubt a few it became clear that the four parties involved could neither share a common vision for modernizing our country nor establish a foundation of trust. And. A common idea and mutual trust have to be the basis for a stable government. We do not know what
A new government is this the beginning of the end for transfer uncle americal bring you the latest. Also coming up on the program zimbabwes deepening political crisis president Robert Mugabe defines pressure from his end of p. F. Party to step down his opponents are now threatening protests and impeachment. And International Concern grows over the hundreds of thousands of group him who have fled violence in myanmar germanys foreign minister visits a refugee camp in bangladesh ahead of a major crisis meeting. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us exploratory talks on forming a new Coalition Government for germany have collapsed the business friendly f. T. P. Bailed out of negotiations saying it failed to find common good. Around on key issues with chancellor im going to michaels conservative alliance and the greens michael and out she would talk with the german president later today its not exactly clear what theyll discuss one option is to call pressure elections or talk about
Political crisis president Robert Mugabe defies pressure from his party to step down his opponents are now threatening protests and impeachment. And Foreign Ministers from asia and europe meet in myanmar theyre expected to pressure of myanmar leader aung san suu cheat on the file its against hinge of most. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us exploratory talks on forming a new Coalition Government here in germany have collapsed the business friendly f. T. P. Bailed out of negotiations saying it failed to find Common Ground on key issues with chancellor going to ackles conservative alliance and the greens maclin out she would talk with the german president later today its not clear exactly what they will discuss one option is to call fresh elections to talk about that in just a moment but first heres how the night of negotiations played out. It was for a climax of a Coalition Talks the head of the free democrat sleeze for building to make an announcement he said his party was