bret: good evening, welcome to washington i m bret baier and two big stories featuring big numbers. customs and border protection say within 300,000 people illegal immigrants and countered by border patrol attempting to enter the u.s. illegally across the southern border and just the month of december. we will head to the border to report on the major showdown between texas and the biden administration. but first the other big numbers tonight. we begin in new york, a jury or during former president donald trump to pay more than $83 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by e. jean carroll. a jury found previously sexually assaulted by a trump in the 1990s. the former president vigorously denied the allegations and wondered how he did that is the subject of the defamation case. alexis mcadams outside of the federal courthouse in manhattan with the latest tonight. good evening, alexis. good evening, bret. huge numbers in the courtroom in manhattan. e.g. harrell said dona
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invasion of ukraine. and the lengths people will go to to get around schemes that are supposed to reduce coming up on bbc news the fallout from the grand national is the death of three horses across the three day meeting, protest and arrest part of the best spark debate. good evening. the nhs in england said it had to cancel almost 200,000 operations and appointments last week during the four day strike by junior doctors, heaping four day strike byjunior doctors, heaping yet more pressure on the health service. over the past five months, almost half a million appointments have had to be rescheduled, and the nhs national medical director says with each strike, it becomes harder. and he wants the impact on patients and staff will continue to worsen. he warns. our health editor hugh pym reports. trying to get back to normal. are you comfortable as you are, lying on the bed? they are assessing patients who have come through this hospital s emergency department. fully staf
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care will not be open during the period of the strike. as things stand, an end to these disputes in the nhs still seems some way off. let s get more from hugh now. you get a real sense of the deep concern among hospital bosses about how they will cope as the strikes continue. that s right. nhs leaders in england have said that the impact last week in their words was colossal, with more than 27,000 staff at one point not working because of the four day junior doctors dispute. as we heard, nearly 200,000 cancellations, but they say that may understate the true position, because in some areas, they were not scheduling plan treatment for last week, so in effect postponing that as well. so all eyes now on the nurses strike over 48 hours, from april 30, affecting all forms of care for the first time. real concern there. we have learnt in the last hour or so that one of the unions representing