as the organisation gives it official candidate status. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. it s six in the morning in singapore, and 2:30 in the morning in afghanistan where taliban officials say the main search for survivors from wednesday s devastating earthquake in the south east of the country has ended. more than a thousand people are thought to have been killed in the remote part of the country. doctors say many children may be among the victims. relief efforts have been hampered by the destruction of already poor road and communication networks in paktika province , the worst hit area. entire villages have been destroyed with survivors saying they are finding it difficult to bury their dead. our afghanistan correspondent secunder kermani is there and has just sent this report. homes reduced to rubble, lives reduced to memories. these were my son s shoes, says agha jan. his three young children were killed in t
during the past four decades over the entire arctic circle. here in the uk, accident and emergency departments in england had one of their worst months injuly according to nhs figures. record numbers of patients waited more than 12 hours to be admitted. sponsor times for ambulances dealing with emergency cases were also much longer than the target time. our health editor hugh pym has this report. james is in training for the great north run. he s had his heart valve operation but only after going private. he felt he had to do that after repeated delays in the nhs system, including last minute postponements. get yourself prepped, you re starving yourself, you wake up the next morning, they shave your chest, get you all gowned up, get you on the bed, and then the nurse turns up and says, sorry, it s not happening today. then your emotions just go. and the first time that happened was really tough, the second time, not quite as tough because you have kind of done it, and the t
And a place that many of us wanna reach. But what if i told you that a latino was behind one of the most prolific tv empires in the world . Well, its a fact. In the 1950s, cuban actor and producer desi arnaz and his wife lucille ball were not only the stars of i love lucy, but they also produced it, along with many other shows. And they even helped create the multicam sitcom genre. So even though were still in the struggle, hollywood isnt New Territory for us latinos. Nuhuh, cause weve been here. You hear me . So today, an la icon is taking me to his Old Stomping Grounds in east la to get this conversation about hollywouldnt going. And i bet at some point, im gonna get some tacos al pastor. cause you know me, i dont play, i need to eat. [upbeat horndriven music] [trills] when you think of la, i bet your version of it has to do with rodeo drive, beverly hills, and celebrities. But the reality is that los angeles is a city of latinos. You can see that latin influence everywhere, right do
Today. Britains governing Conservative Party has made dramatic gains in local elections, a month before a general election takes place. As well as winning hundreds of Council Seats, their candidates were elected as mayors in the north east and midlands, traditional strongholds of the opposition labour party. Brexit and the unpopularity of the labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn appear to be the main reasons for their success. The conservatives picked up more than 500 extra seats across the country. They gained many from the left of Centre Labour party, which lost more than 300. The Scottish National party, which is currently in government in scotland, also lost seats to the conservatives. But it was the uk independence party, which campaigned for the country to leave the european union, that fared the worst, losing almost all of its councillors in seats it contested. Reacting to her partys huge gains, the Conservative Party leader and british Prime Minister stressed her need for a big mandate a