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
basement the ultimate sign of failure. bald men with no jobs and no money who live with their parents don t approach strange women. jesse: unless you are the child of washington royalty where mooching off mom and dad is a wave life. you get to fly to the most exotic country in the world play diplomat and count the money. we told you about hunter s escapades being bribed with chinese diamonds to funding a sex trafficking ring. we just found out hunter has some competition his name paul pelosi jr. as far as we can tell, he has never had a real job. the kind where you have to punch a clock. so what is paulie jr. do all day? well, last week, nancy snuck little paulie on her plane to asia. his name wasn t listed as part of the official delegation. they didn t want you to know paul went to asia with his mom. but if you look closely at the photos, there he is. paulie p. jr. about as unqualified as hunter with all the big dogs there in asia. he was also caught by foreign recover
twitter. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. we begin this hour in sri lanka where protesters have stormed the president s official residence in colombo as the country s economic crisis deepens. the whereabouts of the president are unknown. police fired tear gas in an effort to disperse huge crowds gathered to demand the resignation of president rajapaksa. numerous groups have travelled from to the capital to join the demonstration, which went ahead after the authorities attempt to impose a curfew was abandoned. thousands of troops and police officers have been deployed. it s the latest protest to be sparked by the country s worst economic crisis in decades. sri lanka is suffering rampant inflation and is struggling to import food, fuel and medicine. a short time ago i spoke to our south asia editor anbarasan ethirajan. i began by asking him about his assessment today s events. there have been some dramatic developments over the past few hours
costs putin s putin price hike. as republicans point their fingers to the administration s policies, specifically. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich traveling with the president in los angeles. good evening, jacqui. the president left the ground of this summit to go to the port of los angeles to highlight his work, his progress, unsnarling supply chain with shipping containers. the problem it hasn t made a dent in inflation. another devastating inflation report stealing the spotlight from president biden hosting summit of the americas. consumer prices rose 8.6% in may from a year ago. the highest increase since december 1981. excluding volatile food and energy costs. corn rose 6%. biden wants america to know he is not to blame. today s inflation report confirm what americas already know putin price hike is hitting america hard. month after month the white house has said inflation would slow down later this year. but six months into 2022 it s still going in the
on a day when the way critical issues are handled right now may well determine the outcome of the elections from primaries through november s midterm. not just for candidates, but for our economy, our safety. consider these new pieces of the puzzle. there s a brand new poll that shows 83% of americans describe the state of the economy as poor or not so good. prices for everything from clothes to food on the rise. the average cost of gas hitting another record high today. this hour we ll hear from americans about the pain at at the pump. plus this weekend saw another devastating round of mass shootings that left at least 12 people dead, 38 injured. among the communities experiencing these latest tragedies, philadelphia, chattanooga, saginaw, mesa, arizona. that s according to the gun violence archives. this weekend is pushing some americans to the brink. here s one philadelphia woman after the shooting there killed 3 and injured 11. i m furious. not just for my neighbor, but