out today. lots of flood warnings in force, 57 for england, 2a wales and a couple in scotland. poor conditions out and about this afternoon. this brought heavy rain but if i zoom out into the atlantic we are looking at the next weather system developing just to the east of the united states. that s bringing heavy rain back into our shores for friday night so we are not done with the flooding story just yet even though through the afternoon actually for england and wales brighter weather will be moving on. we are looking at a zone of very strong winds through this afternoon affecting northern ireland, through the west of england and wales and with gusts of 50 60 miles an hourfor the most part that s strong enough to bring down tree branches and perhaps one or two trees, the winds could cause disruption this afternoon. it s miles. temperature is 13 degrees in london, that s 6 degrees above average forjanuary. overnight average for january. overnight united average forjanuary. o
and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck who s died at the age of 78. there s more evidence today of the crisis in the nhs in england, ambulance response times in december were the worse on record. were the worst on record. for category two emergency calls, including strokes, they were more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. the highest priority calls with an immediate threat to life took almost 11 minutes on average, the target is seven. and patients are waiting even longer in accident and emergency, 35% waited more than four hours that s another record. our health correspondent jim reed reports. long queues for ambulances, the most 999 calls ever, record waits in a&e, new figures today show in blunt terms the pressure the nhs is under. martin started feeling chest pains in his home in east sussex in november. his family rang three times for an ambulance. we kept thinking, the ambulance will pull up any minute, it is going to ar
they just don t like to shout about it. i m stanley tucci, i m italian on both sides, and i m traveling across italy to discover how the food in each of these countries 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. it resurrect a dead person? piedmont a place that s always innovating. you have to be crazy, yes. here, you have to expect the unexpected. and commit things a little differently. to unearth it real treasures. [speaking non-english] italy has a reputation for coffee. but it s taken to another level in turin it s great grateful squares are linger over something portent and warming. if you squint, you can even imagine yourself in paris. and that s no accident. turon s the capital of piedmont. a region in the extreme northwest of italy, directly on the border with france. having such a larger than life neighbor has left its mark, french ideas, customs and food are everywhere. [speaking non-english] but if there s a drink that sums it up, it s this.
we ve lost everything, all of our belongings are gone, the only thing we ve managed to say that as our lives. the water s might has taken notjust homes, businesses too. in this video a new hotel, one of the largest in the area, was washed away within minutes. the owner told bbc he watched helplessly as it came down. it s becoming clear to the people trapped in these remote communities that the worst is far from over and yet all many could do was sit and hope, hope that the coming storm will be a little more forgiving. it is a vulnerability many had never imagined. pumza fihlani, bbc news, sukkur. pakistan s minister for climate change, senator sherry rehman, says it is the worst flooding pakistan has witnessed in living memory. as we speak, we have 30 districts completely inundated, so this is reaching proportions much bigger than what we saw in the super flood in 2010. frankly, it s the biggest flood we ve seen in living memory, and it has stretched all resources into the