Brexit is the real end of the british empire. Good morning. Its thursday 14th of november. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im annita mcveigh. Accident and Emergency Departments in england have recorded their worst performance since current records began in 2004. Other targets covering cancer and routine hospital treatment are also being missed. Lets take a look at some of those targets and the latest statistics published this morning. The government target is a maximum four hour wait for those in a e. But todays figures show only 83. 6 of patients, thats one in six patients, were treated or assessed in a e within four hours in october. Thats a sharp drop on september and down from 89. 1 in october last year. The number of patients waiting for routine operations in england was 4. 42 million in september the highest ever. The nhs target is to have all patients start routine treatment within 18 weeks. But todays figures show more than 672,000 people were waiting more than 18 weeks the highe
Steyer, and kamala harris. Please welcome to the stage mayor pete to judge pete to judge pete buttigieg. Mayor buttigieg thank you. Mayor buttigieg thank you. Mayor buttigieg thank you, iowa. Mayor buttigieg thank you so much. [cheers and applause] mayor buttigieg thank you. [cheers and applause] mayor buttigieg thank you, iowa. Thank you, Iowa Democratic party. Thank you, fellow democrats. [cheers and applause] mayor buttigieg the first time i came to this state was as a volunteer, to knock on doors for a president ial candidate, a young man with a funny name. [cheers and applause] mayor pete and we knew the stakes were high then. The stakes are colossal now. [applause] mayor pete this country cannot afford four more years of donald trump. We will not recognize it if he gets reelected. [applause] mayor pete we know what is at stake. And we know that hes going to do everything he can to hold onto power. But if you nominate me, his workook isnt going to this time around. [cheers and app
My weight today . Good evening and welcome to the 2019 liberty and justice celebration hosted by the Iowa Democratic party. For our floor guests, dinner is now served. Betty ering] thank you. Iowaank you to the entire Democratic Party team. It is an honor to be at your liberty and justice dinner. It is even a bigger honor to be in a room full of committed democrats. Including two mentors of mine, this gentleman, mr. Chairman, senator, mentor, tom, can you please stand up one more time . [crowd cheering] tom thank you. Forcan we please give it up your former governor, my former cabinet colleague and a life log mentor. Lifelong mentor, thank you governor. [crowd cheering] again, a big shout out to your congressional delegation, thank you so much, abby, and cindy storming to victory because you guys knocked on doors. They lead with their values, thank you. Thank you to my friend, thank you for my or service congressman. Thank you for everything you have done and best of luck. You do not k
Live friday at 8 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Listen wherever you are using the free cspan radio app. Towelcome Kimberly Leonard her desk. I want to start with the news that the obama care premiums are set to fail. The Trump Administration has taken so many actions that sabotage the law. Premiums are going down for midlevel plans by about 4 next year. Know that more Health Insurers are entering the marketplace, and we know it is happening because of a variety of factors, one of which has to do with the Trump Administration authorizing funnelsnce, which federal funds to states so they can use those dollars to help them lower premiums. That helps lower the premiums across the board. Hill, arday on capitol hearing about obamacare, about the Affordable Care act. It sabotaged the trumpet ministrations attack on health care. You explain what the democrats in charge of that hearing were pointing to . The democrats have been very focused to really bring forth obamacare, the Affordable Care act,
[ applause ] thank you. Mayor, welcome back. Thank you. You were here in february before you actually became an official candidate. And i see youre playing bigger rooms now. Seems that way, yeah. Do you ever stop and say to yourself, how the hell did this happen . Every now and then. Go from here to there. At that time, you were essentially an asterisk. Well [ laughter ] maybe a little more than an asterisk. You were an asterisk plus. You were largely considered one of the flock of many small town mayor, young guy, and now youre a contender. And what have you learned about the country, what have you learned about yourself through the journey from there to here. The biggest thing i learned is you arrive presenting something thats different if youre not like the others and you can get your ideas across that anything can happen. We didnt know. I believed but didnt actually have any way of knowing, as of january or february that if we did this, that we could build a following, that we coul