petition, chris. i don t think anybody saw this coming. for 13 years not one person in britney spears family has filed a petition to terminate. it turns out her father is the one to file a petition to end this over a decade long conservatorship. so the next hearing is in just a couple of weeks. so the judge looks like she is going to hear this. if she sets this for a hearing. and the conservatorship is going to be terminated. but why is had her father doing it now? britney said at two hearings over the summer she wanted to charge her father with conservatorship abuse. now britney spears lawyer saying he sees a sense of victory, this is because of the mounting pressure from himself and the free britney movement to step aside and that he still wants jaime spears to sit for a sworn deposition. i don t think that this is going to be ending, chris, anytime soon. and we still haven t heard from britney spears tonight.
and more people in hospital because if covid surges, as it will inevitably do as winter comes along, that could lead to more unsustainable pressures on the nhs and people s operations, routine operations, being cancelled. so frankly, it s a bit of a disaster. given that worrying picture you paint of what might be ahead, what can be done at this stage to try to minimise the damage? the first thing i would say is if you have got a flu vaccine booked already, please don t contact your practice because the receptionists and office staff are all fully tied up trying to contact everybody. please wait to be seen. but if you have a vaccine appointment coming up in the next couple of weeks and you haven t heard, just before you re due to go in do check with your practice beforehand. hopefully you will have been contacted by then, but if your appointment is cancelled please don t keep ringing the practice to ask them when you can come in. we will let you know, but we ve been told by seqirus that
but if you have a vaccine appointment coming up in the next of weeks and you haven t heard, do check with your practice beforehand, hopefully you will have been contacted by them. but if your appointment is cancel, please don t keep bringing the practice to ask when they will come in. we will let you know but we ve been told by seqirus that we cannot start the practice to ask when they will come in. booking the appointments until about a week before to get patients in. the women s tennis star naomi 0saka says she is going to take an indefinite break from the sport after being knocked out of the us open. her defeat at the hands of leylah fernandez, an unseeded teenager, brought an end to her attempt to retain the title. speaking after the match, ms 0saka said, i feel like i m kind of at this point
thank you very much forjoining us on bbc news today. it will not be lost on people that tomorrow is 16 years since hurricane katrina hit new orleans, flooding 80% of the city. and hate 80% of the city more than 1800 people killed. compare this hurricane strength to katrina. i must say i do remember they vividly describe the fact that it was so long ago. new orleans is a city of roughly 300 to 330,000 people. what many haven t heard is katrina was the most successful peace time evacuation in american history, despite the fact there was such a loss of life. new 0rleans s new 0rlea ns s vulnerability lies because.
pursuit of liberty and freedom, just like the president said. we have to make sure that we are doing everything possible to put the troops and resources in place to protect them better, to extend that perimeter, put air cover in place, have the intelligence capability to detect these attacks in advance and do everything possible, that this is imperfect stuff. we re asking these folks to do different things under very difficult circumstances. that doesn t mean that we stop the mission but we cannot and we must not ever leave hundreds of americans behind who have raised their hand and said that they want to be evacuated. and i m getting stories, you know, even today, just a couple hours ago, i talked to somebody on the phone. they had four americans that haven t heard from the state department in days who are waiting for evacuation. they don t know what s going to happen. i m hearing a lot of those stories. i do not see a path to getting that done between now and tuesday. that s why we h