we ll be speaking to a nuclear expert. ongoing rail strikes affect train services in england, scotland and wales with more disruption expected in the coming days. the prime minister of finland sanna marin has agreed to a drug test after a celebrity party video leaked on social media. welcome to abc news. the uk is facing a public health emergency, because people are having to choose between heating and eating this winter, due to soaring energy prices. that s according to the nhs confederation, which represents employers in the health service. ministers say millions of the most vulnerable households are being given £1,200 to help with higher energy bills. but it comes at a time when nhs services are already under intense strain. for category two reponse times for emergency calls in england which includes strokes and heart attacks there s been a sharp increaase this year to nearly one hour on average last month. the target, as you can see here, is 18 minutes. the nhs confedera
warnings of a public health emergency in the uk this winterfor the nhs, amid fears services could be even more stretched after a bad summer. and a show of solidarity for salman rushdie: authors gather in new york to demonstrate their support, a week after he was attacked. we start in the us, where a former british member of the islamic state terror group, has been sentenced to life in prison, by a court in virginia. el shafee elsheikh, who s 3a, was among a group of british is members who carried out a brutal reign of terror in syria. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal reports from virginia. and then they would ask me to. el shafee elsheikh claimed he was a simple is fighter who wanted to help. but it wasn t true. he was part of the islamic state group which terrorised large swathes of iraq and syria between 2014 and 2017. beatings, electrocutions and mock executions were carried out by the jihadists on western hostages, who called their torturers the beatles due t
and now another major democrat is [inaudible]. it s the sitcom that predicts how we re going to live in the future. to mark george jetson s birthday today, [inaudible]. but first president biden tested positive for covid again today in what his doctors are calling a rebound case. it is the second day of isolation for joe biden. hey folks, joe biden here. tested positive this morning. i will be working from home the next couple of days. i m feeling fine, feeling good. [inaudible]. and as biden is sidelined from covid, his administration is under fire for its handling of china s aggressive rhetoric towards house speaker pelosi as she visits asia. today pelosi s office released her planned itinerary which includes stops in singapore, malaysia, south korea, and japan. taiwan, not on the list. even though pelosi never confirmed the stop in taiwan, details were leaked according to senator cotton by the white house. chinese state media ramping up the threats, calling for sev
south texas tonight as state authorities empowered by the governor said migrants flocking illegally into the country back to the body by the busload in what critics say is itself a little. plus, new viral video capturing just about the homelessness problem is in san francisco, showing schoolchildren get enough off a bus going to a field trip. forced to walk by a large group of homeless people living in unsanitary filth. we begin tonight with biden. white house correspondent is that your tonight ip driven, kevin. good evening, shannon. if a vote of confidence is, say, the best christmas present you ve ever received, then the opposite of that would be a vote of no confidence. sort of a lump of coal. if that is the case for president biden, while the stocking is absolutely chock-full of cool, but a strong majority of democrats looking for somebody, anybody else to lead the party s charge in 2024. it was a headline most foul, the kind that no politician wants to see, let alon
the 22nd commonwealth games are finally underway. the opening ceremony took place on thursday evening in birmingham. now on bbc news split at birth: twins divided. february of 2018, there was a 2020 episode about louise wise agency separating identical twins back in the mid 60s, and my older sister who s adopted, called me and said, can you imagine if either of us was a twin? and i said, well, that s ridiculous. and i remember getting a shiver all over my body thinking, wow, what if this was real? in the 1960s, an adoption agency in new york, the louise wise services, began a policy to deliberately split up identical and fraternal twins, and place the infants in different families. the adoptive parents were never told that their children had siblings. any louise wise adoptee from the 605 has every right to think perhaps they have a twin. the separated twins were placed in a controversial study to explore what makes us who we are, and how much is defined by nature versu