Brexit is the real end of the british empire. Good morning. Its thursday 14th of november. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im annita mcveigh. Accident and Emergency Departments in england have recorded their worst performance since current records began in 2004. Other targets covering cancer and routine hospital treatment are also being missed. Lets take a look at some of those targets and the latest statistics published this morning. The government target is a maximum four hour wait for those in a e. But todays figures show only 83. 6 of patients, thats one in six patients, were treated or assessed in a e within four hours in october. Thats a sharp drop on september and down from 89. 1 in october last year. The number of patients waiting for routine operations in england was 4. 42 million in september the highest ever. The nhs target is to have all patients start routine treatment within 18 weeks. But todays figures show more than 672,000 people were waiting more than 18 weeks the highe
Slightly to the downside. The rallyderpinning we are seeing today. Adding to the losses that we saw for the gold price on friday. That is indicative of where we are. Take a look at what is going on here. There is a big rally for bonds and australia. As we getis is japanese funds shying away. Paper. Ssie that is where we are right now. Lets find out where we are with the first word news. Su thank you very much. Lets start with Michael Bloomberg. He is joining the crowded race for the white house, entering the Democratic Campaign with a mix of moderate policies and experience in business and government. The 77yearold launched his bid by saying that President Trump is an existential threat to the u. S. And to its values. He added that america cannot afford any more of what he termed was the president s reckless and unethical actions. Michael bloomberg is the founder and majority owner of our parent company. Minister Boris Johnson has launched a conservative Party Election manifesto, pledg
That he would have. We have had nine years of Chaotic Coalition already. Two white house aides who listened in on the trump ukraine call that sparked impeachment inquiry have been testifying to congress. First, we are going to turn to washington, dc. The impeachment inquiry into donald trump continues. This is the live feed coming in as to more people give testimony. And also the former europe adviser, tim morrison, theyll be taking questions from the democrats and republicans as well. Earlier, a white house official testified that president Donald Trumps phone call with his ukrainian counterpart injuly was so inappropriate, he reported it without hesitation. Were into the third day of public hearings the focus of the inquiry is on whether donald trump withheld military aid to pressure ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden. So, centre of attention today is Alexander Vindman hes a decorated military veteran who now works as a ukraine specialist on the Us National Security
Businesses created in this country since 2010, one. 4 million. Napoleon said that we were a nation of shopkeepers, and i think thats an insult we can take, isnt it . He was right, by the way there have been more businesses created since 2010 then france and germany combined. Im proud to say. That is the balance and symmetry at the heart of oui balance and symmetry at the heart of our one nation conservatism, between fantastic Public Services, building the platform for growth and the strong, Dynamic Market economy. What i say, when people get up at the crack of dawn to get their business ready, when people take out a mortgage for a new venture and when people have the guts to put a new product on the market, we do not sneer. We cheer for product on the market, we do not sneer. We cheerfor them. And, to make sure that the businesses of this country can continue to innovate, we are announcing today that the government, if we are elected, will not only invest more to support electric vehic
The Prime Minister is much in the position of someone standing on one side of a canyon, shouting to people on the other side of the canyon that if they do not do as he wishes, he will throw himself into the abyss. That is not a credible negotiating strategy. It comes as conservative mp philip lee defects to the lib dems, leaving the government with no working majority. And this is the scene in the commons right now as that debate continues. We will bring you all the debate in the reaction. A very good evening. Welcome back to westminster. We are about an hour into the emergency debate in the house of commons, aimed at preventing a new deal brexit. The motion was presented to the house by conservative mp sir Oliver Letwin who said that in light of parliament being suspended later this month, it has become urgent to discuss whether mps accept the possibility of a no deal brexit. If the idea is approved, legislation designed to block a no deal brexit will be introduced tomorrrow. It comes