And coming up on bbc news. Bayern munich s latest bid for harry kane is enough to get a yes from spurs but will they get the same answer from the england captain himself . Hello. The nhs achieved an unwelcome milestone today that nobody wanted. The number of people waiting to start routine Hospital Treatment in england is at a record high nearly 7. 5 Million People. The figures are from the end ofjune, and mean 1 in 7 of the population is waiting for hospital care. Nhs providers, which represents Health Trusts in england, says the numbers arent surprising, given the diffculties the nhs has been facing. This includes backlogs made worse by the pandemic, and strikes by health care workers. Yet rishi sunak has made cutting nhs Waiting Lists one of his key priorities this year. The government today says there are positive signs in the figures, including a drop in those waiting for more than 18 months, and improved Ambulance Response times. To dig into the figures and look at when they migh
A generation of children and young coronavirus. Tell us what they have been saying. The 2020 committee have people in health and wellbeing thats the warning from two reports out today. Been saying. The 2020 committee have been saying. The 2020 committee have been saying is that speaking, expressing confidence the games will go ahead, the region badly hit, and its spreading across the world. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. They are essentially trying to reassure and make people aware that they are doing all the right iamjoanna i am joanna gosling. A major new Public Health campaign is being launched this morning to try and contain the spread of the coronavirus. Measures for all the spectators and it comes as more people across the uk are confirmed to have people attending, the torch relay is tested positive for it. Government adverts across print, at the top of the concerns, and they radio, online and billboards will urge people to wash their hands are looking into that. Mea
Thanks for joining us. Im Maria Bartiromo in for neil cavuto. Catherine herridge is tracking the story and in washington with the latest. Good afternoon. Thank you. The incident happened at 1 30 eastern and this is a very heavily trafficked, dense, busy sector of toronto. Yonge street is the main artery that runs north and south and the east west artery that traverses young street. This is not only sort of a big center, its also residential area with a lot of condos and also where they have one of the major sort of transition hubs for what is called the tcc, the toronto transit commission. The driver of this ryder rental van got on the sidewalk and began mowing down pedestrians at 30 to 40 miles an hour before coming to a stop after a half mile later near shepherd avenue, which is the next big intersection that crosses yonge street. We just had a News Conference from what amounts to the governor of ontario called the premier, kathleen wynne. She told reporters that they are taking all
Hospital. Just one hospital there. And witnesses who have spoken to cnn partner ctv described seeing people on the ground and victims in body bags. They also described horror at the height of the day. In the middle of the intersection and the van went right into them and plowed right into them. He drove down further and went on to the sidewalk by the next building and he hit more people there. And just kept going. Were told that he may have driven along the sidewalk for half a mile, perhaps a mile. This is believed to be the van involved. A white ryder rental van in a busy part of toronto. Ill play another video now. What you are going to see here shows a standoff very near the scene of this with an individual pointing an object at police and this happened moments after the van plowed into the pedestrians. [ sirens ] get down. Get down. Get down. Get down. To be clear, police have not yet confirmed that is suspect. But youll note he is standing next to the van we showed you earlier whi