The Royal College of surgeons warns that the number of patients waiting more than six months for routine operations and treatment in england has nearly tripled in four years. Good morning. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The Crown Prosecution Service have announced that Craig Mackinlay, who is running for south thanet in the election for the conservatives, has been charged over his alleged overspending in the 2015 general Election Campaign. Mr mackinlay defeated the then ukip leader, nigel farage, in the ballot. Daniel sandford is with me now. First ball, talk us through what he has been charged with. It all goes back to the Titanic Battle In the 2015 General Election between nigel farage and a Conservative Party. He was trying to get a seat in parliament for the first time. The Conservative Party were trying to keep them out. Craig mackinlay was the candidate for the conservatives who managed to win that in south thanet. As all candidates have to do, he then filed his Election Expenses
Jazz, visitors head back to the 19205 jazz, visitors head back to the 1920s when music and style defines the era. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is Bbc World News. Its newsday. Good morning. It is 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 2am in the last stronghold of so called Islamic State, the syrian city of raqqa. Is is facing all out war on severalfronts. City of raqqa. Is is facing all out war on several fronts. Across the border in iraqi troops have taken most of the city of mosul but not in time to save the famous mosque. In raqqa us backed fighters at the Syrian Democratic forces are close to pushing is out. Our correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse is on the frontline and sent this report. This has been a long and brutal road. We are inside raqqa canal, driving to the centre of the Syrian Democratic forces, the sdf, a Coalition Of Kurds and arabs. They have only just retake Coalition Of Kurds and arabs. They have Onlyjust Retake in these streets after fighters h
An Inquiry Finds that senior figures in the Church Of England colluded with disgraced former bishop peter ball who abused young men tributes are paid to makram ali named as the man who died in the Finsbury Park Terror Attack. And prince harry tells an american magazine that no one in the royal family wants to be king or queen but they do it for The Greater Good. And boys at a school in Devon Wear Skirts to lessons in protest at not being allowed to put on shorts in the heatwave. Our main story at five local authorities around the uk are checking the cladding on high rise buildings, 600 of them in england alone, because of concern about the cause of the Grenfell Tower fire in which 79 people died. So far, tests have found the cladding on seven buildings is combustible. The tests are on going with samples from tower blocks all over the country being sent in for testing 100 samples can be processed a day. The Prime Minister told the commons that steps were being taken to make the affected
Jazz, visitors head back to the 19205 jazz, visitors head back to the 1920s when music and style defines the era. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is Bbc World News. Its newsday. Good morning. It is 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 2am in the last stronghold of so called Islamic State, the syrian city of raqqa. Is is facing all out war on severalfronts. City of raqqa. Is is facing all out war on several fronts. Across the border in iraqi troops have taken most of the city of mosul but not in time to save the famous mosque. In raqqa us backed fighters at the Syrian Democratic forces are close to pushing is out. Our correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse is on the frontline and sent this report. This has been a long and brutal road. We are inside raqqa canal, driving to the centre of the Syrian Democratic forces, the sdf, a Coalition Of Kurds and arabs. They have only just retake Coalition Of Kurds and arabs. They have Onlyjust Retake in these streets after fighters h
Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, iam in london, and 3am in the last stronghold of so called Islamic State, the syrian city of raqqa. The extremists are facing all out war on several fronts now. Across the border, iraqi troops have re taken most of the city of mosul, but not in time to save the famous mosque there. In raqqa, us backed fighters of the Syrian Democratic forces are close to pushing is out. Our correspondent, gabriel gatehouse, and cameraman, fred scott, are with the sdf on the frontline, and sent this exclusive report from raqqa. This has been a long and brutal road. We are inside raqqa now, driving to the centre of the Syrian Democratic forces, the sdf, a Coalition Of Kurds and arabs. They have onlyjust retaken this street from fighters that called themselves Islamic State. Here is is often unseen but all the more dangerous for it. A noise in the sky signals the presence of a drone. Wha