Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The number of patients on Hospital Wards has been at unsafe levels in nine out of ten nhs trusts in england this winter, according to figures obtained by the bbc. Some hospitals were operating at close to full capacity, putting increased pressure on the number of beds available. All week we are taking an in depth look at the state of the nhs in a series of special reports. Heres our Health Correspondent, jane dreaper. Its been a very difficult winter at Yeovil Hospital in somerset. Like many other hospitals in england, theyve had to battle Behind The Scenes here to find enough free beds in recent weeks. You can get periods, particularly over the winter period, when you are managing bed by bed, minute by minute, and teams are having to spend a lot of time and Energy Running around finding a bed for the next patient that needs it. And moving patients between beds isnt ideal, we dont like doing it unless we really have to, but sometimes you have to prioritise
Prices have been rocketing in china. Is that suddenly we should be concerned about . Rico hizon will make sense of that for you in a moment. But we start in seoul, where the trial of the century is getting started. The head of the biggest company, samsung, is on trialfor bribery. Samsung might be a household name, globally, but his bossis household name, globally, but his boss is not. So what we know about him . He is the boss of the company, jay y lee, but is known by south korean media as the crown prince of samsung. That is because he is the only son of the chairman, lee kun hee, who was convicted of bribery and tax evasion himself, but was pardoned. So jay y lee has been in charge since his father had a heart attack in 2014. He has been the de facto boss. So the lee family are phenomenally wealthy. You can see the figure behind me. Forbes magazine ranking them asias richest Family Last Yearfor Magazine ranking them asias richest family last year for the second year ina family last
In sport, theyre calling it one of the greatest european ties ever. Barcelona make history by coming from 4 0 down against Paris St Germain to win with the last kick of the game. And two years after historic Clandon Park House was gutted by fire, we report on the start of the huge restoration task. And carol has the weather. Good morning. For many this morning its a fairly cloudy start, also a damp one with showers or some rain but by mid morning, for most well have some lovely springlike weather with a fair bit of sunshine except across the Channel Islands and the south west, where it will be cloudy and damp, and it will be quite a windy day for some of us. More in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. The chancellor Phillip Hammond is facing accusations of breaking an Election Pledge by increasing National Insurance contributions for many Self Employed workers in yesterdays budget. Hes facing growing pressure to reconsider his plan from some backbench conservative mps. The
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Im sarah montague. The European Union in greater trouble than ever before. Its notjust because of brexit, even founding members countries like italy are unhappy about the direction its headed. The Italian Economy has always struggled within the straightjacket of the euro. And its wanted its fellow members to help share the burden of the half a million migrants who have turned up on its shores over the past three years. My guest here at the Italian Embassy in london is italys europe minister, sandro gozi. He is a passionate european. How does he think the eu should change if it to survive and win over the next generation of europeans . Sandro gozi, welcome to hardtalk. You have said that the beginning of European Disintegration has started with brexit. Is the eu disintegrating . If it remains the status quo, certainly. It must get out of the status quo. It must show there is a political reaction to the series of crises that has hit the union. Among these, the major one is certainly the