Let me bring you some breaking news on the nhs. The average Response Time in february for ambulances in england dealing with the most urgent incidents, defined as calls from people with life threatening illnesses or injuries, was eight minutes and 25 seconds, nhs figures show. This is down very slightly from eight minutes and 26 Seconds Injanuary, but is above the target standard Response Time of seven minutes. Ambulances took an average of 36 minutes and 20 seconds last month to respond to emergency calls such as heart attacks, strokes and sepsis. This is down from a0 minutes and six Seconds Injanuary while the target is 18 minutes. Response times for urgent calls, such as late stages of labour, Non Severe Burns and diabetes, averaged two hours, four minutes and 12 seconds in february, down from two hours, 12 minutes and 48 seconds in january. Back to our top story. The communities secretary, michael gove, has told the bbc why the government is introducing a new definitgion for extrem
In on that breeze. Not a bad day, actually, for many of us. Some Sunshine Looks like it could break through. And, again, were in that milder air with temperatures up to around about 1a to 16 for most of us. This is bbc news, the headlines redefining extremism at the uk government names groups that are a cause for concern and could face restrictions. Us Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer says Benjamin Netanyahu is a major obstacle to peace as israel vows to push ahead with its rafah offensive. Elon musk s Spacex Mission is hailed a success even though the Starship Rocket is lost on re entry to earth. Tiktok warrants a us ban could cost us businesses billions of dollars and thousands ofjobs. And for the first time in its history, glastonbury will have to female Headline Acts. Find out which artists get the prestigious sports. Just before we go to business, some Breaking News to bring you involving a plane which was carrying the defence minister grant shapps on his way back from poland
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Its ahead of a planned Ground Offensive in the Southern City of rafah, where about 1. 5 Million People are sheltering. It is being reported this morning, not a huge amount of detail what those humanitarian islands would look like. It is right at the very southern end of the gaza strip, where more than half of the population is now sheltering and is a place where israel has said it needs to carry out a military Ground Offensive because it says in order to achieve its aim of fully removing hamas run gaza, the only way to do thatis hamas run gaza, the only way to do that is target hamas s remaining leadership when they are believed to be in and among civilians sheltering in rafa. Of course this remains an operation which has questions attached, certainly the word ireland is interesting because a central part of the gaza strip has been left severely damaged by months of Israeli Ground and air attacks. People who live there have left their homes, been going back to those areas but of course