invasion of ukraine. and the lengths people will go to to get around schemes that are supposed to reduce coming up on bbc news the fallout from the grand national is the death of three horses across the three day meeting, protest and arrest part of the best spark debate. good evening. the nhs in england said it had to cancel almost 200,000 operations and appointments last week during the four day strike by junior doctors, heaping four day strike byjunior doctors, heaping yet more pressure on the health service. over the past five months, almost half a million appointments have had to be rescheduled, and the nhs national medical director says with each strike, it becomes harder. and he wants the impact on patients and staff will continue to worsen. he warns. our health editor hugh pym reports. trying to get back to normal. are you comfortable as you are, lying on the bed? they are assessing patients who have come through this hospital s emergency department. fully staf
prepare for lunar new year. and britain s andy murray is out of the australian open. he lost to spain s roberto bautista agut in four sets in what could be his last time at the tournament. hello and welcome. ukraine says it will keep pushing to be supplied with modern tanks after a meeting of allied nations in germany ended without an agreement to provide them. protests have taken place in berlin to demand the approval of german made tanks to be sent to kyiv. aruna iyengar has this report. this is what kyiv wants, but can t yet have. german made leopard 2 tanks as part of hopes for hundreds of western battle tanks to help defend their country and take back their land. ukraine says modern tanks are key to holding back russia s expansion plans. translation: the partners are firm in their attitude. i they will support ukraine as much as necessary for our victory. yes, we will still have to fight for the supply of modern tanks, but every day we make it more obvious there is no al
sandra: america reports with the justice department last hour submitting proposed redactions to the affidavit used as the basis of the search of former president trump s florida home. now it s up to a federal judge to determine how much of that document the public will actually get to see. hello, welcome, everyone. i m sandra smith in new york. happy friday eve. john: as we like to call it around here, that s what thursday is. good to see you, sandra. the federal judge who approved the warrant to search mar-a-lago is set to weigh the pros and cons of releasing portions of the affidavit. the judge acknowledged heavy redactions to make the document in essence meaningless. justice department maintaining it could be dangerous to release any part of the affidavit saying it could compromise the investigations. republicans, along with several news organizations are pressing for more information about what prompted the unprecedented search of a former president s home. sandra
the liberal democrats said people wanted a government focused on the country rather than saving its own skin. give us a sense of how bad this could be for the prime minister? we hear a lot about these allegations of so called sleaze, financial, moral, orwhatever. to be honest, on the richter scale of these things, this feels like a relatively minor tremor, perhaps if you roof tiles dislodged, if you like. at the heart of this are questions around administration and procedure. should rishi sunak have declared explicitly in front of that committee has wife s shareholding? could he have declared it elsewhere more quickly? incidentally, the register of ministers interest has not been published for nearly a year. it used to come out around every six months. i think that is a symptom of the chaos in politics recently. and i should mention that the labour leader sir keir starmer had a brief run in with the commissioner last summer over
the is due. but if there are any other questions, i am sure he will address them. well known for his work as vaccines administered during the covid pandemic, nadhim zahawi made big money in business before going into politics. now it is alleged he tried to avoid capital gains tax by using an offshore firm to hold shares in yougov, a polling firm he co founded. mr zahawi has denied any involvement with the offshore firm, and a spokesman say his taxes are properly declared and paid in the uk. but labour says he has to go. these are very serious allegations, and it these are very serious allegations, and it is these are very serious allegations, and it is untenable for him to continue and it is untenable for him to continue in hisjob if he has misled the public continue in hisjob if he has misled the public and millions of tax which is important money that goes on to our is important money that goes onto our public is important money that goes on to our public services. last our p