of living continues to soar. and it s the final day of the commonwealth games with gold for scotland in the diving. we ll be live in birmingham. good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. bbc research has found that only one in ten nhs dentists in the uk are taking on new adult patients. the most extensive survey in years has revealed that some areas are dental deserts . out of nearly 6,900 nhs dental practices contacted 90% said they were no longer accepting any new adult patients. only a quarter of those dental practices said they operated a waiting list to become an nhs patient and for most of those, the wait was at least a year or more. and in 12% of local authority areas in the uk, we couldn t find a single practice that would accept a child. 0ur correspondentjenny kumah has the story. my partner was in so much pain, she asked me to take her tooth out with a pair of pliers. this is the second tooth i pulled out myself because i was in so much pain. i am living on porr
strategy, undersecretary state blanket and under the national security adviser but also under president biden has been fairly straight and forth right now. i think this is some free ranging by speaker pelosi. doesn t have a reputational impact in the united states? of course it does. but beneath the surface, as we all know, the administration is desperately trying to stop talk speaker pelosi out of it. as a friend and partner of the united states but now heading a think tank, i would also urge speaker pelosi simply to postpone the visit, send some other congressional representatives at this stage. they are so many tender boxes at the world of the moment. why unnecessarily add an additional tinderbox when we ve got so much else we are wrestling with?- else we are wrestling with? kevin, thank yom the us secretary of state, antony blinken, says the us has offered a substantial deal to russia, aimed at freeing american detainees brittney griner and paul whelan. mr blinken sa
no, that was up to seven. i think that was seven. it might be my souvlaki talking, but yes. so it s a big debate with all of the parties who are fielding candidates in the election being represented. and as a result of that, what you have is of course, the sort of battle royale going on between labour and the tories, but you have an opportunity to hear from a much broader rainbow of political opinion. yeah, it means on the one hand it s less focused than when it was starmer versus sunak on tuesday, and it sjust two people going head to head on a range of issues. it becomes a bit more sprawling, but equally it feels more like britain because you re hearing about wales and hearing about scotland. sure. and it s a reflection also of the fact that there are lots of different kinds of political races in lots of different kinds of constituencies. there are races that are between the snp and the tories in some parts of more rural scotland they tend to be. there are of course that ar
Intervention in the election to tilted towards trump made him out of the notches. That enraged trump. The interesting and controversial thing is the involvement ofjeff sessions. He excused himself from the russia investigation because he was a key figure in the Trump Campaign and his involvement in the Firing Of Comey has raised a lot of questions and criticism from congress. He got flack for saying he had met the Russian Ambassador but had not mentioned it. Exactly. Lastly, trump dug his dug himself into a bigger codger mercy with a veiled threat to james comey that he might not leak because they might be tapes. That has set up a whole round of speculation about what kind of Taping System he has, good the comparisons with nixon get any more stark . You have Top Democrats in Congress Calling on him to release whatever tapes he may have. I think that this is getting very troubling andi that this is getting very troubling and i think, his credibility is under question. He has appeared to
This week a sacking in washington, a timely Election Leak in the uk, and Donald Trumps visits to the middle east and the vatican. Debating all of that are stephanie baker, from the International News Agency Bloomberg news, janet daley, Political Columnist with britains sunday telegraph newspaper, Jonathan Sacredoti from i 24 news, an israeli International News channel and Mustapha Karkouti from the dubai based newspaper, gulf news. Donald trump sacked plenty of would be Business Moguls on the Reality Tv Series the apprentice, barking youre fired to theirface. James comey received his dismissal as director of the fbi in a note. Getting rid of Tv Contestants doesnt have many consequences; sacking the head of the countrys key Crime Fighting agency when hes investigating those around you, well thats proving harder to forget. What was he thinking . He did not handle this well. He is not good at firing people. The messaging was incredibly messy. He tried it out and then various trump surroga