the fatal capitol hill riots last year. a us hearing is told then president trump chose to do nothing as violence unfolded, despite pleas from staff and family members. as birmingham prepares to host the commonwealth games, countries where it s illegal to be gay are warned they re unlikely to host future competitions. # now we re here in that famous tent.# and, we re behind the scenes as the great british bake off the musical prepares for opening night. and coming up on the bbc news channel, after a tough year with injuries and a family bereavement, dina asher smith wins bronze in the 200 metres at the world athletics championships. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. a critical incident has been declared at the port of dover, with holidaymakers and lorry drivers facing queues of several miles to the ferry terminal. bosses at the port have blamed what they ve called woefully inadequate staffing at french border controls. this weekend marks the start of the sc
those simon, morning to you. so, we had those reports of coaches being stuck in queues for more than 12 hours, lots of people as they get their way on good friday hoping that is not going to be the case this weekend. it is already a busy start to the morning here in dover, people arriving here hopefully, it will not be a bad start to good friday. let s show you the latest pictures, you can see some of the traffic starting to build up particularly lorries at the moment. we are told it s taking around 30 minutes to get through french passport controls here in dover. 0n the other side of the channel, there are queues of around an hourfor coaches channel, there are queues of around an hour for coaches trying to return to the uk. that is simply due to the volume of traffic wanting to make the journey this easter weekend. port bosses will be desperate to avoid a repeat of those scenes that were witnessed here in dover last weekend, people queueing for hour after hour to try to get across the
travel chaos a critical incident is declared at dover. holidaymakers and lorry drivers are sitting in miles of queues. port bosses blame inadequate staffing at french border control, and are warning people to arrive five hours before their crossing. six hours before their crossing. it s been rather frustrating and distressing. i mean, iwas among hundreds and hundreds of people stuck in the queue in the town centre of dover, not knowing what was going to happen. as millions of families begin school holidays in england and wales, we ll be live in dover with the latest. also this lunchtime. long nhs waiting lists are driving more patients to pay for private treatment. we talk to some who say they felt they had no choice.
are going to the roof and they are warning consumers that they are are going to be price tags or a shortage of goods right in the run up to the holiday shopping season. for many of them this really matters because that s the time when they do about 40% of their business. so they are crying, look let s get christmas back on track and it seems the white house is responding with this meeting of port executives, commitments from business leaders as you point out to try and resolve some of the supply chain bottlenecks we are seeing right now. well after that meeting with port bosses, he is due to speak at the white house about supply chain challenges and of course when that happens you ll see it here on the bbc. meanwhile the international monetary fund yesterday cut its forecast for global growth, blaming the pandemic and interruptions to the supply chain. we ve seen the revival of commodity prices and you re also seeing pent up demand being released. this is a very odd recovery where we h