Were live until am this morning. Are you waiting for a non urgent operation . If so, wed love to hear from you this morning about how long youve been waiting. Are you one of the many people whove arrived at hospital only to have your operation cancelled on the day . Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. We are going to go and live now to hear from donald we are going to go and live now to hearfrom donald tusk, the president of the European Council. You can see the podium there, he is waiting to speak in malta in the next few minutes, he will of course be talking about those brexit negotiations, so we will go back to that live as soon as it happens, you wont miss anything at all. Our top Story Today Patients will have to wait longer for routine operations, such as hip and knee replacements as a trade off, so that improvements can be made in other areas like a e. That
A look at the days latest news and headlines. A local news station that investigators say her laptop show she was doing homework at her boyfriends house into the night possibly after her jog. And her boyfriend claims she sent him a snapchat picture the day she vanished that appeared to be inside. As of Tonight Police have not publicly named any suspects and are being very tightlipped about details maintaining that releasing too much information will compromise the investigation where they wont comment on whether there were signs of forced entry or if investigators have obtained any information from her fitbit, which could reveal her exact gps location and heart rate the day she went missing. Mollys boyfriend was 100 miles away working at a Construction Job in iowa. He claims he was one of the first to throw up red flags that she was missing. When she did not respond to one of his Text Messages and did not show up to work. She hadnt called in and he looked at my phone and i noticed that
A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. That and 300 billion after that. Basically the entire u. S. Trade relationship with china. Initially on the next tranche of 200 billion, the president was thinking about Levying Attacks of 10 . This afternoon were going to learn that the president is going to up that to 25 . The belief here among his trading Economic Team that china continues to be a bad actor when it comes to trade and they need very strong influence, if you will, to try to get china to change its ways. Listen to what Sarah Huckabee sanders. The president has made some head way the e. U. In terms of lowering trade barriers, taking steps towards levelling the Playing Field. Does the president and his team believe that is possible with china without taking some real punitive measures . Wed like to see the Playing Field levelled. The president as both he and i think about 15 members of his administration have said
repeatedly, wed like to see the un
our social affairs editor alison holt has been following the story of molly and her family for almost a year now. this is her report. this is molly. she is 16 and has autism. it s at the root of her deep anxiety and eating problems. i ve been talking to molly and her parents since last summer. their experience exposes a health and care system which is failing too many young people. the health services don t do anything until you are almost dead. there is no long term strategy, there is no planning really other than reacting to crisis. the queen alexandra hospital in portsmouth is a busy general hospital, not a mental health unit, yet molly has spent most of the last seven months in a side room on a children s ward here. her sensory needs mean she usually sleeps on pillows and cushions on the floor. she was here mainly because there was nowhere else suitable, but this environment overloads her senses. when she becomes distressed her behaviour can become challenging.
it s pretty desperate, pretty miserable, it s on our mind 24/7. we are exhausted. it s exhausting being in that situation where we are kind of almost waiting for a bad phone call. at the national autistic society they say they are hearing hundreds of stories like molly s. they describe it as a human rights crisis. molly is there again because there is nowhere else, because there aren t the right support services in the community so people have to stay in their own house or have support for people to go and live with their parents with people coming in to provide additional support and a bit of support from the community mental health team. those things just don t exist properly for autistic people. steve crocker represents directors who run council children s services. until recently he ran services in hampshire where molly lives. he can t talk about her case, but says health and care teams are seeing a rapid rise in young people with mental health issues. we need to work together with