action in what will be the biggest ever nhs walk out in england. we are still hopefully on track and getting waiting lists below a year at the end of march. the more strikes we have, the more challenging that becomes. at the moment, ourstaff challenging that becomes. at the moment, our staff are working incredibly hard to get the waiting lists down. let us know how the strikes are affecting you and do you support them? you can get in touch with your thoughts on this story and the rest of the days news by contacting me on twitter @annitabbc or using the hashtag #bbc your questions we re bringing you special coverage of breaking news this hour a powerful earthquake which has struck northern syria and south eastern turkey, killing more than 640 people. the tremor had a magnitude of seven point eight, and struckjust before dawn. the epicentre was in the turkish province of gaziantep but buildings collapsed hundreds of miles away, and there are also reports of many casualtie
Good afternoon. King charles has been meeting the Prime Minister, liz truss, at Buckingham Palace in the last hour, as final preparations continue for Queen Elizabeths State Funeral tomorrow. Hes also hosting a reception for hundreds of World Leaders and royals this evening. Officials are now advising people thinking ofjoining the queue not to set off, with the line expected to close later this afternoon. Last night, the queens eight grandchildren, led by Princes William and harry, stood vigil around her coffin. Its the First Time Ever that the grandchildren of a monarch have taken part in the ceremony. And the us president , joe biden, arrived yesterday, as World Leaders continue to arrive in london for tomorrows funeral. James lendel reports. The funeral may be tomorrow but World Leaders are gathering already. The us President Joe Biden and his wife touched down late last night. One of more than 500 foreign dignitaries assembling to pay their respects to a woman in the world knew as
For the Miscarriage Ofjustice of Sub Postmasters and she broke down in tears under questioning. The horizon it software wrongly said money was missing from branch accounts and more than 900 Sub Postmasters were convicted. Ms vennells was Chief Executive from 2012 to 2019 and today started giving evidence to the inquiry. Among the questions to answer what did she know about the ability of others to remotely access the accounts . For years the post office denied this was possible. The inquiry s seen a transcript of a call with a Senior Lawyer in 2013 which suggests that Paula Vennells had been briefed about a covert operations team. Also, did she mislead mps in 2015 when she appeared in front of a committee on the issue. And should she have done more to get to the bottom of it . Our Business Correspondent theo leggett has been listening to her evidence so far. His report contains Flash Photography from the start. Any word before you go in ms vennells. At the heart of a bitter scandal. An
sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre we ll start with the cricket world cup, where south africa have cruised to a 190 run win over new zealand in pune. to put them on the brink of clinching a semi final spot, new zealand won the toss and must soon have regretted putting south africa into bat. opener quinton de kock tore into the black caps bowlers, racing to a century. he shared a partnership of 200 with rassie van der dussen who also quickly reached three figures as south africa piled up 357 for four. new zealand were never in the hunt and slumped to 167 all out, four wickets for spinner keshav maharaj. it means they drop to fourth after a third straight defeat, with crucial matches against pakistan and sri lanka to come. england s david willey has announed he ll retire from international cricket following the world cup. the bowler is the only player in the squad for the tournament not to be offered a central contract. with the team s director of cricket
Workers and nurses on strike at the same time that we have not seen before in this dispute, which has got nhs bosses worried about the impact on patients. i should say we were expecting to see strike action today across much of wales, that got cancelled or suspended in most cases at the tail end of last week, on friday, when there was a new pay offer from the welsh government worth around 7.5%. what the royal college of nursing have said is if there was a similar offer in england, they would have also suspended the strike action here, but that has not happened and looks unlikely to happen. rishi sunak said in an interview at the tail end of last week that he would love to give nurses a massive pay rise, who wouldn t? but his argument is that the nhs has other spending priorities. as things stand, this dispute is very much deadlocked in england, and it is likely we will see further industrial action perhaps running through the winter and perhaps into next spring. our wales correspondent