will risk patient safety. it s three and a half hours since the action began. let s go around the country and join our reporters on the picket lines. first, to our correspondent sanchia berg, who s outside the university college london hospital. we hospital. can see those pictures behind you, we can see those pictures behind you, junior doctors on the picket line, tell us what they are saying to you. line, tell us what they are saying to ou. ~ . , ., line, tell us what they are saying to ou. . , , to you. what they are saying is they are resolute- to you. what they are saying is they are resolute. they to you. what they are saying is they are resolute. they want to you. what they are saying is they are resolute. they want the - are resolute. they want the government to come, sit down and negotiate with them. they are saying they are prepared to strike, to continue to strike and saying they want a restitution of what effectively they say a pay cut over the last ten years
welcome to belfast and the lyric theatre where tonight, the play agreement will mark a moment 25 years ago that changed every aspect of life here in northern ireland forever the signing of the good friday or belfast agreement. it brought peace to northern ireland, but it has been an imperfect peace. the agreement guaranteed power sharing in government between nationalist and unionist communities. but for more than a third of its lifetime, there hasn t been a sitting government at stormont. these halls at the lyric have captured huge moments of symbolism both big and small. ten years ago, martin mcguinness, northern ireland s former deputy first minister, a former ira commander, shook hands with queen elizabeth here, a moment that would have once been unimaginable. and it is moments like that that people will be looking out for this evening when president biden arrives. here in northern ireland, words matter, and people will be looking to president biden s speech to see ho
departments, and to make inroads into the backlog of care that built up into the backlog of care that built up and was building up before covid and built up a lot more during covid. that balancing act, meeting demand and making inroads into the backlog, is a tough thing to do it the best of times, it is impossible to do when you are losing around half your medical staff. so there is no question that the targets we have set for ourselves, the aims we have got to reduce those waiting lists are going to be dented by this and thatis are going to be dented by this and that is a real pity. because we had been making progress, we had got to the stage at the end of march where we massively reduced almost to zero the number of people waiting more than 18 months for example for a procedure. so it is kind of heartbreaking if you have been a leader in the health service, anyone in the health service, and you have got those waiting this down, you have got, achieve the balancing act and lo
hello, welcome to bbc news. let s start with that story causing major shock waves today, the boss of one of the largest business groups, the cbi, has been fired after an investigation into complaints about his conduct at work. to ny danker will leave the group with immediate effect. tony danker will leave the group with immediate effect. he apologised in the wake of the allegations over his behaviour towards a female employee. our business correspondent emma simpson has more. this story has absolutely rocked the cbi. tony stepped aside last month as an investigation got under way, but the report into what happened hasn t actually been published. it was done by an independent legal firm. so we don t know the full details. at the cbi said today that it related to specific complaints about workplace misconduct. it determined that tony s conduct fell short of that expected of the director general. so, he s been sacked with immediate effect. but he s clearly not happy about it bec
in, because of inflation, in the cost of living, in the real wages doctors get. as a result of this, thatis doctors get. as a result of this, that is why you are seeing 47,000 members, roughly two thirds of junior doctors are members of the british medical association, 47,000 doctors expected to go on strike in england this week. how then could patients be affected by this four day strike? let s have a look. nhs trusts expect there to be between 250000 and 350,000 appointments and operations cancelled. the biggest impact is likely to be in these pre booked appointments and that is because in emergency care, what hospitals generally try to do is to move over more experienced consultant doctors to cover for the junior doctors who are striking. as a result, the kind of senior doctors that would normally be responsible for cancer scans, that would normally be responsible for cancerscans, hip that would normally be responsible for cancer scans, hip operations, outpatient appointments, other