duly elected as the scottish national party leader. history is made as humza yousaf becomes the first muslim to lead a major political party in the uk. i will be a first minister for all of scotland. i will work every minute of every day to earn and to re earn your respect and your trust. we ll be looking at the story of the man who s made it to the top of scottish politics, and we ll be asking about the major challenges he now faces. and the other main stories tonight. in israel, mass protests against controversialjudicial reforms force a government delay. but tonight it s supporters of the plans who are on the streets. prince harry unexpectedly appears at the high court, one of several famous names involved in a privacy case. and the families of lost crewmen still searching for answers exactly 80 years after the sinking of hms dasher. coming up on bbc news in halfan hour. france go head to head with the republic of ireland. welcome to bbc news at ten, which comes tonight fr
being rescued on the front line as fighting rages around them. calls for energy companies to stop making their customers use prepayment meters because they re struggling to pay their bills. bumper christmas sales for some of britain s biggest retailers, despite the cost of living crisis. and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck, who has died at the age of 78. and coming up on the bbc news channel. great britain s jack draper will hope to be the headline maker in the first round of the australian open on monday. he s been drawn against the defending champion, rafael nadal. good afternoon and welcome to the news at one. there s more evidence of the crisis in the nhs in england. ambulance response times reached their worst level on record in december. category 2 emergency calls, which include strokes, took more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. the highest priority calls, with an immediate threat to life, took almost 11 minutes on averag
out today. lots of flood warnings in force, 57 for england, 2a wales and a couple in scotland. poor conditions out and about this afternoon. this brought heavy rain but if i zoom out into the atlantic we are looking at the next weather system developing just to the east of the united states. that s bringing heavy rain back into our shores for friday night so we are not done with the flooding story just yet even though through the afternoon actually for england and wales brighter weather will be moving on. we are looking at a zone of very strong winds through this afternoon affecting northern ireland, through the west of england and wales and with gusts of 50 60 miles an hourfor the most part that s strong enough to bring down tree branches and perhaps one or two trees, the winds could cause disruption this afternoon. it s miles. temperature is 13 degrees in london, that s 6 degrees above average forjanuary. overnight average for january. overnight united average forjanuary. o
asi as i said earlier this week people know i take classified documents seriously. russians fighting in ukraine claimed they have found the body of one of two british aid workers who ve been reported missing. bumper christmas sales for some of britain s biggest retailers despite the cost of living crisis. and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck who died at the age of 78. there s more evidence today of the crisis in the nhs in england: ambulance response times in december were the worse on record. for category two emergency calls, including strokes, they were more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. (ani the highest priority calls with an immediate threat to life took almost 11 minutes on average; the target is seven. and patients are waiting even longer in accident and emergency 35 % waited more than four hours that s another record. our health correspondent jim reed reports. long queues for ambulances, the most 999 calls eve