Will take them to the euros. Holidays are coming, and that means so are the christmas ads. Nearly £7 billion will be spent on them this year, so as thejohn lewis film is revealed, ill have a look whether the focus is on tv or online. Westlife are back with a new album, with a helping hand from ed sheeran. They will be here after 8 00am to tell us how it happened. It isa it is a cold start to the day, for some of us a frosty one, but also some of us a frosty one, but also some heavy rain extending through wales to central and south eastern england. That will move northwards today towards Northern England. U nfortu nately today towards Northern England. Unfortunately it is also going to rein in areas where we already have some flooding. I will have more details in 15 minutes. It is thursday 1a november. Our top story the army is preparing fresh defences for flood stricken parts of South Yorkshire as more heavy rain is forecast across the uk. The village of fishlake near doncaster has be
The british empire. And england play montenegro tonight needing just one point to take them to the euros next summer, but theyll have to do it without star player Raheem Sterling who was dropped after his bust up with liverpoolsjoe gomez. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. The army is preparing fresh defences for flood stricken parts of South Yorkshire as more heavy rain is forecast across the uk. Forecasters are warning there could be a danger to life in the village of fishlake near doncaster where hundreds have been forced to leave their homes and businesses. A yellow weather warning for rain is now in force around sheffield, doncaster and nottingham, and will last until the early hours of friday morning. Tim muffett reports. The floodwaters are dispersing, but more heavy rain is expected here, so soldiers from the light dragoons cavalry regiment have been building barriers to try and protect fishlake. Youve got sandbags here. Yep. You have barriers as well. How does it w
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
You just dont go there. Ben stokes speaking to dan walker there. Time for a look at the weather. Heres helen willetts. Some of us woke up to snowfall and some of it is still there but mostly now over the hills but the rain is coming down thick and fast. In amongst all that rain and snow, weve got some beautiful sunshine. This was edinburgh earlier. Visible on the satellite picture here but this swathe of cloud unfortunately brings rain to those areas already severely flooded and theres more to come. There are met Office Yellow warnings for rain in this part of the world and there are numerous flood warnings still. In fact, the numbers are now rising across the midlands, particularly warwickshire and oxfordshire to the could be some nasty conditions if you are travelling. The river levels are rising quickly and flowing fast. For the next few hours you can see that rain with as across the midlands, very little letup towards the southwest and northeast, pivoting further north westwards as
The discussion included assessments of fdr, jfk, George H W Bush and will, as well as their russian counterparts. This is about one hour and 20 minutes. We have a great panel. Philip will chair the panel. He has written a terrific book on the end of the cold war, the principal author of 9 11 commission report, and many other books. He is right now in the middle of writing a great book on sort of decisions for war in ways that illuminate old crises and old decisions, like going to war in 1898, or wilsons decision for war in world war i. He is brilliantly reassessing these decisions, and were looking forward to his next book. At the same time, he is doing about a dozen other things that none of us can keep track of. And that we dont always know about. I amsurg to say that we need to wait for james wilson to show up. [laughter] he is probably up there somewhere having a very good nation. If we get send the search party out a very good conversation. [laughter] thise of the messages of [ind