and the legendary british rock guitaristjeff beck has died at the age of 78. and coming up on the bbc news channel. australia refuse to play cricket in aghanistan in a stand against the treatment of women by the taliban.. as they withdraw from march s one day series. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. if you called an ambulance in england back in october for someone who was having a heart attack or a stroke, the average waiting time was an hour. the latest figures from nhs england showjust how much the situation has worsened since then. if you made the same call last month, the wait was half an hour longer a full 92 minutes on average before an ambulance would get to you. the target is 18 minutes. for weeks, we ve been reporting on the unrelenting pressures facing the nhs this winter. senior doctors have told us the health service is operating on a knife edge. now our health editor hugh pym has been allowed into the royal bolton hospital, and into a&e, which i
thiessen live coming up. john: fox news alert, president biden landing in the middle east as inflation hits a new 40-year high with no end in sight. i m john roberts in washington. sandra, double duty today. sandra: great to be with you, john. brand-new numbers from the government showing red hot inflation has not cooled. consumer price index surging to 9.1% in june. marking the biggest one-year increase since 1981. the president issuing a statement in response to all of it saying today s data does not reflect the full impact of nearly 30 days of decreases in gas prices and other commodities like wheat have fallen sharply since that report. john: americans are not feeling any relief, as the labor department shows, paying more for gas and cleaning products compared to last year. we begin with fox team coverage. lydia hu live in new york city with more on the inflation impact on food prices and jacqui heinrich from jerusalem where she is travelling with the president. j
we will prepare all the options, ready for the incoming prime minister on the 5th of september to hit the ground running. liz truss and rishi sunak answer questions at a tory leadership hustings in northern ireland as they vie for votes to become the next party leader and prime minister. more than 4,000 people given contaminated blood in the 70s and 80s will receive compensation of £100,000 each but campaigners say many grieving families have been ignored. horrific and shocking police describe how 87 year old thomas 0 halloran rode 75 feet on his mobility scooter in west london after being stabbed in what officers say was an unprovoked attack. voters in a republican primary in the us state of wyoming oust trump critic, congresswoman liz cheney, in favour of a candidate backed by the former president. good afternoon. an increase in food and drink prices has pushed inflation to double digits as the cost of living crisis intensifies. the office for national statistics says
but first another alert kicks off america reports on this august afternoon. lawmakers on both sides demanding answers into the raid at mar-a-lago carried out one week ago today. welcome as we kick off two hours of america reports. i m bill hemmer, a big welcome to my colleague. nice to see you, always a new yorker. i m aishah in for sandra smith. fbi documents revealing the agency seized 11 sets of classified records, including some marked as top secret. mike: now the former president demanding the fbi return some documents allegedly covered by attorney/client privilege. the trump team also asked for an independent review of the records but the doj knocked down that request. all of this as republicans call for the release of the affidavit that would justify the search in the first place. team fox coverage this hour. chris swecker. but but mark meredith live i washington, there is also some growing fears now about violence towards government officials, includ
chief. anyone? from food to fuel, prices all around us are on the rise. add the slow growth and experts are forecasting increasing odds of a serious economic downturn. americans cannot hide from what is happening. but apparently our president would like to do just that. oh, the mostly liberal media are finally getting curious about whether we will have to survive a tough recession. biden didn t like a reporter s question on that. president biden: not the majority aren t saying that. come on, don t make things up, okay. now you sound like a republican politician. i m joking. that was a joke. all kidding aside, no, i don t think it is. i was talking to larry summers this morning and nothing inevitable about a recession. harris: that s hilarious because larry summers has had it on and he said the opposite. the president can try to sell what he is saying there. critics aren t going to buy it. what is unique about this, like i tell to your viewers, different from the depre