People in the uk waited more than four hours in the last year. Also, the foreign secretary will pledge to stand by european allies in the fight against islamist terrorism after britain leaves the eu. Hms Queen Elizabeth will be commissioned into Service Later today. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement, hamas, has called for a new intifada, or popular uprising, following President Trumps recognition of jerusalem as israels capital. The us decision has been widely criticised around the world, including by some of americas closest allies such as britain, france and saudi arabia. The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow to debate the move. Lets show you the latest pictures we have from bethlehem, where there have been demonstrations against the decision by President Trump and tear gas is being used to try and disperse those demonstrations. Joining us now is fawaz gerges, professor of International Re
Is it worth being a city of culture . Ill be chatting to businesses all morning about how things have changed for them this year. Good morning. In sport, liverpool net seven goals, making england the first country to have five teams through to the Champions League knockout stages in the same season. And carol has the weather. Good morning. Storm caroline will make its presence felt in the north of scotla nd make its presence felt in the north of scotland today. 90 Miles Per Hour gusts. Blizzards as well. A mild and a wet start to the day away from that. It will be noticeably windy. I will have more details in 15 minutes. Thank you, carol. Good morning. First, our main story the number of patients experiencing long waits in accident and Emergency Departments in the uk has more than doubled in the last four years. Research by the bbc found that more than three Million People waited longer than the four hour target in the last year. Doctors say it shows the nhs can no longer cope. The dep
Tell the story of the weather. This has been the story this morning in the Northern Isles but for scotland tomorrow i suspect we will have seems like this with blizzard like conditions and frequent snow showers tonight but how far south will they go . Stay watching and i will tell you in half an hour. Thank you. Well be talking to tvs nick hewer about why 80 of the worlds orphans arent actually orphans and what hes doing to help them. We might talk about that other apprentice presenter, dondald trump, as well. Hello. The leader of hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group, has called for an uprising or intifada in response to President Trumps decision to recognise jerusalem as the capital of israel. Palestinians in the west bank and gaza strip are holding a day of strikes and protests and israels military has used water cannon against protesters in bethlehem. Traditional allies of the United States, including saudi arabia and france, have condemned President Trumps decision but israel has
Think the problem he faces is who can bring him down allow him to withdraw other same time saving face its quite a big predicament i mean could she face is. It less than a month to go until general elections in italy tensions seem to be boiling over hundreds of anti fascist activists have come out to protest in the central city of maturity. Just hundreds of supporters of the far right party clashed with police that we could go much about to suffered a racially motivated shooting that left six people injured the shooter was targeting african migrants and said he wanted to avenge the death of an italian woman allegedly killed by a nigerian a silencing. I and the incident is fuel concerns about the possible rise of neo fascist forces in italy national as well as foreign media of weight. In on the story and the shooters lawyer told journalists his client was quoted as a hero in prison place a racial and religious violence has soared in recent years and i think that the shocking numbers tha
And while Media Attention focused on the v. I. P. s that action at the Opening Ceremony it was revealed that not everyone was too happy about the unified korean team u. S. Spies president mike pence made headlines by not standing up as the korean team marched jury in this ceremony reports say he was one of the few who remained seated and did not applaud penn slater explains that explain that he came to south korea to cheer u. S. Athletes but still the recent friendly relations between the two countries are widely seen as a breakthrough after the countrys held their first talks in two years Hong Kong City universitys joseph chunk of Political Science professor believes the president ial invitation is a major step forward. This is a small prick freule. Moon of seoul korea understands that his people would like to see the beat escalation of tension in the Korean Peninsula the conditions normally will be cessation of Nuclear Power as an. Miss out on the part of north korea and north korea