what was your reaction to the accusations made by dominic cummings? let me know on twitter, it s @annita mcveigh, or #bbcyourquestions. president biden orders an intelligence report into the origins of the covid 19 virus, after recent us media reports it could have emerged from a chinese laboratory. victoria heads into a snap week long lockdown. more than five million people in australia s second biggest city, melbourne, will now face restrictions. ten years after the winterbourne view scandal, campaigners fear people with learning disabilities and autism are still facing abuse in long stay hospitals. the cast of friends! also coming up. friends reunited they re back, 17 years after the prgramme ended its run. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the uk health secretary, matt hancock, will in half an hour s time respond in detail to a series of explosive claims by the former downing street adviser dominic cummings, including that tens o
meteorologicalorganisation says most of the deaths could have been avoided, if residents had been warned and given time to escape. the bbc s anna foster is in the libyan city of benghazi. something that becomes very quickly apparent is how big the scale of the task facing libya is right now. benghazi is a small airport and it is far from the hive of activity that you might expect in the wake of a devastating natural disaster like this, because this is a country that s also been ravaged by more than a decade of conflict. you can see the split political allegiances in this country, and all of those things are making it incredibly difficult to get the aid to derna, where it is so desperately needed, where we still don t know how many people have died, but it could be as many as 20,000. and quentin somerville has been speaking to people in derna who witnessed what happened. her sisterfilms the her sister films the panic and outside buildings collapsed. they thought this would be
i spoke to michele servadei, who is a un representative in libya, and he gave us his assessment of what the immediate threats are now. displacement is a major concern as well. there are over 30,000 people displaced in multiple areas, mostly from derna town, but also in other areas. as you mentioned, the waterborne diseases risk. so it s not coming from the bodies. it s coming from potentially the sewage mixing with drinking water and with the water around. so we will need to provide safe water, but also repair quite fast the water and sanitation system and make sure that people in shelters have hygiene kits, but also that they have cholera prevention measures. and we are looking potentially at discussing with the government whether or not we need to do a vaccination campaign for that. and then, of course, in terms of children, for unicef, we are looking at psychosocial support, scaling up in shelters, but also for kids that have been affected themselves the night of the burst
hello and welcome to the bbc news at one. in the last hour, the prime minister has acknowledged that his target of reducing nhs waiting lists in england is in doubt. his comments come as it s revealed that the number of people waiting to start routine hospital treatment in england has risen to a new record high. an estimated 7.68 million people were waiting at the end ofjuly. the prime minister called the figures obviously disappointing but said industrial action by doctors was a significant cause. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes is in salford. good afternoon. waiting lists hitting nearly 7.7 million people in england, that represents around one in seven of the population. this morning the prime minister, rishi sunak, has acknowledged those figures are, as he said, obviously disappointing, and he has admitted really for the first time that his target of reducing waiting times in england was now in doubt and it could be very hard to meet that. you have to say, that w
four year old is taken to hospital following an attack. it s prompted calls for more responsible dog ownership. good evening. the un says thousands of deaths could have been avoided in libya if the authorities had passed on warnings to the people in the coastal city of derna. derna, with its population of 100,000, was the hardest hit more than 5,000 are known to have died but many thousands more are still missing. 0ur correspondent anna foster has just arrived in libya in the coastal city of benghazi. that s where desperately needed aid is arriving too and shejoins me now. 0ne one thing that becomes very quickly apparent is how big the scale of the task facing libya is right now. benghazi is a small airport and it is farfrom the benghazi is a small airport and it is far from the hive of activity you might expect in the wake of a devastating natural disaster like this because this is a country ravaged by more than a decade of conflict. you can see the split political allegia