energy bosses have held talks with the government to discuss plans to help customers struggling with soaring bills. ministers are promising more help in the coming months. a british man accused of being a member of the islamic state group is remanded in custody charged with terror offences. and the crisis of local swimming pools. the bbc finds more than 60 have closed across the uk in the past three years. hello. welcome to bbc news. welcome to bbc news. a&e departments in england had one of their worst months ever injuly, with record numbers of patients waiting more than 12 hours to be admitted. this is from the latest monthly performance data from nhs england. and the number of people waiting to start routine hospital treatment has risen to a new all time high. 6.7 million. the ambulance are dealing with the most urgent cases took an average of 29 minutes longer took an average of 29 minutes longer to respond than injune. shadow health secretary wes streeting has told the b
america becomes the first country in the world to approve covid vaccines for babies. hello and welcome to bbc news. polling stations have opened across france in the final round of voting for parliamentary elections. at stake is control of the 577 seat national assembly, where the liberal party founded by president emmanuel macron has held sway for the last five years. but, president macron s candidates are facing strong opposition in the form of an alliance of left wing parties. i m joined now by our correspondent hugh schofield. only two months since emmanuel macron won the presidency convincingly, much of a challenge that he face this time round? it is that he face this time round? it is a big challenge. that he face this time round? it 3 a big challenge, surprising challenge, not from the far this time. but from the left. this coalition which has been created by the force of will of one man, jean luc melenchon, the man who came third in the presidential election, who ca
victory over saracens at twickenham. good morning, a precious story across the country today. cloud and across the country today. cloud and a few showers across england first thing, but there will be sunny spells around. i will tell you when and where, injust a moment. it s sunday 19th june. our main story: the transport secretary grant shapps has accused the country s biggest rail union of punishing millions of innocent people after it confirmed it will go ahead with series of crippling strikes. mr shapps said the travelling public faced a week of misery because the rail, maritime and transport union had refused repeated appeals to call off their action due to start on tuesday. our political correspondent nick eardley has more. for nick eardley has more. anyone who relies on trains next for anyone who relies on trains, the next few days are going to see significant disruption. the biggest real strikes in decades are happening and the government says it will cause misery for
Mans opportunity, according to an old asian proverb. And that certainly applies to europes migration crisis at the moment. As thousands of refugees continue to flow northwards fleeing the bloody conflicts in their home countries peoplesmugglers are taking advantage of them at every turn. The most ruthless among them are in bulgaria. The traffickers there draw on decades of experience, smuggling drugs and other goods between europe and turkey. And now theyve turned their attention to humans, demanding thousands of euros to take them to the town of vidin, on bulgarias border with serbia. In this exclusive report for focus on europe, dws paul tutsek tracked down a peoplesmuggler in the capital sofia, to get an inside view of whats going on. Bulgarias capital sofia is one of the hubs for smuggling routes into europe. We have to use a hidden camera. It shows them unloading their human cargo right under the noses of the law. Its a business worth billions of euros enough to pay off Police Off
An old asian proverb. And that certainly applies to europes migration crisis at the moment. As thousands of refugees continue to flow northwards fleeing the bloody conflicts in their home countries peoplesmugglers are taking advantage of them at every turn. The most ruthless among them are in bulgaria. The traffickers there draw on decades of experience, smuggling drugs and other goods between europe and turkey. And now theyve turned their attention to humans, demanding thousands of euros to take them to the town of vidin, on bulgarias border with serbia. In this exclusive report for focus on europe, dws paul tutsek tracked down a peoplesmuggler in the capital sofia, to get an inside view of whats going on. Bulgarias capital sofia is one of the hubs for smuggling routes into europe. We have to use a hidden camera. It shows them unloading their human cargo right under the noses of the law. Its a business worth billions of euros enough to pay off Police Officers and other officials. Of c