let s cross live now to our correspondent sharon barbour, just outside the manchester royal infirmary. you say, a care has been cancelled. not patients are being advised to have a look on the website of of the hospital to see what is happening. if you have been contacted to come in, do but many operations have been cancelled right across england. thousands, tens of thousands, of junior doctors on strike and when we sayjunior doctors, we mean all those doctors up to consultant level and we mean half the medical workforce in hospitals. a significant impact on hospitals over winter. doctor lizzie greenfield is one of the junior doctors. you were just telling me before we came on air why you ve come out here today, just talk us through why. dar; air why you ve come out here today, just talk us through why. just talk us through why. day one of work as a junior just talk us through why. day one of work as a junior doctor, just talk us through why. day one of work as a junior d
welcome to the programme welcome we begin in ukraine where at least three civilians have been killed and more than 1a wounded in the last 2a hours in the latest wave of russian missile and drone attacks. the overnight attacks across ten regions of ukraine were the fourth such wave in just over a week. the southern city of odesa has also been targeted. russia has stepped up its aerial attacks ahead of an expected offensive by ukraine. a ukrainian general in bakhmut said russia had intensified its shelling of the devastated city too. russia s wagner group boss says moscow has agreed to his demands for more ammunition days after he threatened to withdraw his men from bakhmut. russian troops and fighters from wagner, a private military company, have been trying to capture bakhmut for months despite the city s questionable strategic value. earlier, zhanna bezpiatchuk from the bbc ukraine service, told us more about the drone attacks to kyiv. we have seen already a ra
success welcome to the programme. in the us, just hours to go until donald trump s controversial immigration legislation title 42 expires. the us homeland security secretary says their borders are not open and warns of tougher consequences for those who try to cross illegally. we ll look at what will it mean for people waiting to cross the us mexico border. also in the programme. the uk is to supply ukraine with long range cruise missiles to help push back russian forces. we ll look at exactly what these missiles are. interest rates in the uk go up again. now at their highest level in the uk for nearly 15 years. what does that mean for the economy? and it s eurovision the second semifinal is getting under way right now in liverpool. we ll be live with the latest from the contest. we re going to start in the us with title a2. that s the name of the legislation that makes it easier to expel people he who cross the border from mexico. it was introduced in covid times, on pub
hello, i m sally bundock. welcome to the programme. we begin with breaking news, a story developing overnight. the israeli military has carried out air raids in the gaza strip, striking targets belonging to the islamichhad militant group. palestinian officials said three commanders of the group were among at least 12 people killed. several others have been wounded. powerful explosions were heard throughout gaza city and rafah in the south of the gaza strip, causing panic among residents. in a statement, the al quds brigade, the military wing of islamichhad, said resistance to israel would continue. the death in israeli custody of an islamichhad hunger striker last week was followed by the firing of hundreds of rockets from gaza into israel. soon we will go live to gaza city to speak to rushdi abualouf. three senior officials killed in gaza airstrikes, his say the israeli military launched strikes against the militant group on tuesday. these are the pictures we are receiving a