Named in the side. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Record numbers of patients waited for more than four hours in accident and Emergency Departments in england in december thats according to officialfigures. Only 86 met the nhs target of being seen in four hours or less. And figures leaked to the bbc suggest it was even worse in january, just 82 , the worst performing month for a e departments in the past 13 years. The bma says the Prime Minister can no longer bury her head in the sand about the increasing pressure on the nhs. The government says the vast majority of patients are seen and treated quickly. This report from our Health Editor hugh pym. Scenes like this on bbc news this week have highlighted the immense strains being felt right across the nhs. Here at royal blackburn hospital, rated as good by inspectors, some patients waited up to 13 hours in a e. Some had to sit on the floor. The latest official figures confirmed it was the worst for waits since modern re
ad lib or. he feels the room, the emotion in the room, i think there will be emotional moments tonight when he talks about tyre nichols parents who are sitting in the box, that is an emotional moment. joe biden will feel the room in that moment, the emotions in that moment. i think what he calls a paul pelosi, i ve heard he will also call up mitch mcconnell for being the longest serving member in the senate. so there are moments of vintage who he is, but he knows at the live at the moment. this might be the most boring push to take this but i will do it anyway go for it. i am fascinated by the lobbying process to get into the speech. you got over a dozen different agencies, everyone has their priorities, people are lobbying hard, the second informational funnel, people of all programs to want a shout out in the speech in all the constituencies and stakeholders down into. how those decisions get made
pro-russian lobbying process at the same time. the company fusion gps failed to register as a foreign agent for its work done under a law which allows the president to punish under human rights. before i sent you a letter about this, were you aware of the complaint against fusion acting as an agent of russian interests? that s on a question i can answer in this forum. you can t answer that? no, i can t. i ll go on to else. last week, the fbi filed a declaration and court to the freedom of court information act. the fbi said that a grand jury issued subpoenas for
cnn s oren liebermann is in jerusalem. reporter: there is no more fighting and arguing about the iran nuclear deal. now the question is the aftermath of that deal. that is what prime minister netanyahu will focus on specifically the u.s. military aid package to israel in the wake of the deal. it is about $3 billion a year now. it is a ten-year deal. it runs until 2018. netanyahu and president obama know it will not be signed today, but netanyahu will begin to push for an increase in the aid. he may ask for $4 billion or $5 billion. the decision will not be made today, but this is the beginning of the lobbying process. as this happens, the other big item on the agenda for the leaders is the israeli/palestinian conflict. another alleged attack in the west bank this morning. the one getting a lot of attention was in the southern
clinton and newt gingrich circa 1995. by the end of that year, those two men would find themselves on opposing ends of the longest government shutdown of u.s. history. it would not be long before newt gingrich was leading a failed impeachment crusade to try to remove president clinton from office. but in june 1995, those two guys held a town hall event together. it remains the only town hall event held jointly by a sitting president and the speaker of the house. at one point they agreed on the spot to work together on something. i ve never heard this proposed before. maybe if we had a ribbon commission of people that had respect and integrity that would look at the lobbying process. i thought you were talking about health care reform. no, you want to do it on lobby reform? in a heartbeat. i accept. mr. president because otherwise, we cannot