about half the health trusts in england are affected by today s industrial action, but the rcn, has guaranteed a minimum level of cover, for intensive care and trauma units. a quarter of the trusts involved have also been given extra exemptions, for services like transplant and cardiac care, which means strikers can be called in, for emergencies. this latest 28 hour action ends at midnight, with the government saying it s pay offer, is fair and reasonable. here s our health correspondent, sophie hutchinson. they say cut back, we say fight back. nurses on the picket line once again. no nhs cuts. determined to have their voices heard, in this dispute over pay and conditions. i ve been a nurse now for 15 years, and it s just got worse and worse. the staffing is cut, our pay is cut, but patient care is always excellent, but we just strive and we give and we get nothing back. we re on strike because i have seen, over my entire career of more than a decade in the nhs, a progressive
don t. the prime minister has a big decision to make. the british citizens trapped under fire in the sudanese capital khartoum as food and water run out. buildings have been obliterated and pounded continuously. hundreds of people line the streets of kent for the funeral of the entertainer paul o grady. and coming up on bbc news: two own goals in the quarterfinal first leg. can manchester united turn their fortunes around against sevilla in the second leg of the europa league? good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the biggest and most powerful space rocket ever launched has blown up on its maiden flight. spacex s starship exploded just minutes after lift off from texas. there was no one on board. elon musk, the man behind it, declared the test flight a success. he is trying to develop a reusable space vehicle that will eventually be able to carry up to 100 people on interplanetary flights as well as allowing travel to anywhere in the world in one hour or less. rebe
the president meeting with ukrainian counterpart in what is being described as a defiant display of western solidarity. white house correspondent peter doocy is traveling with the president and reports tonight from warsaw, poland. good evening, peter. bret, if president biden stuck to his schedule he would still be in washington, d.c. right now. but, instead, he is here in warsaw after a daring dip into a war zone. and he is looking ahead to a big speech tomorrow where we do expect him to call out vladimir putin by name. putin s war of conquest is failing. but it s ongoing. so the president is committing 500 million more dollars in equipment for the fight against putin. thought he could outlast us. i don t think he is thinking that right now. the u.s. gave russia a heads up, president biden would be visiting ukraine but to keep the trip clandestine the president was driven in a white toyota suv instead of the customary black suburban and traveled with a much smaller
Just one country badly affected by a changing climate as World Leaders gather in new york for the u. N. Climate summit. This is the business im joined on in berlin while we begin with the collapse of the worlds oldest travel Company Thomas Cook had stopped operating after failing to secure a last minute bailout thats left more than half a 1000000 holidaymakers around the world stranded well have more on that in a minute but heres a look back at that era thats now come to an end it all began 178 years ago as a father and son outfit offering modest trips between english cities but it grew into a multi 1000000000. 00 travel firm with global reach and 22000000. 00 customers at the turn of the century the group expanded rapidly buying up Tour Operators hotels and Airlines Across europe among the firms subsidiaries are Tour Operator necromancer which offers trips to customers in germany switzerland austria and others to that coax planes the groups the Airline Business comprise comprises of
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It was a total game changer. Learn more about the condition at factsonhand. Com tonight, several developing tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. The cdc and what theyre now urging involving thanksgiving. Urging americans not to travel. It comes as nearly 200,000 new cases and nearly 2,000 deaths reported in just the last 24 hours. The cdcs alarming new prediction about the death toll by mid december. Authorities in New York City and across the country taking new action. In california, issuing a new curfew tonight. Ohios governor Warning Hospitalizations are reaching critical levels. Dr. Anthony fauci at the white house podium for the first time in months and what he said late today. Reporters asking where is the president on this virus. What were now learning about a third vaccine tonight showing promise. Late today president elect Joe Biden Warning American lives
are at stake with the president refusing to work with him on any transition, on any plan for vaccine