and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck who s 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. were the worst 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. 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 ever, record waits in a&e, new figures today show in blunt terms the pressure the nhs is under. martin started feeling chest pains in his home in east sussex in november. his family rang three times for an ambulance. we kept thinking, the ambulance will pull up any minute, it is going to ar
since the fbi searched his florida resort for sensitive files. the most vicious, hateful and divisive speech ever delivered by an american president. hello and welcome to bbc news. here in the uk the foreign secretary, liz truss, who looks likely to become the next prime minister on tuesday, has hinted at how she plans to tackle the cost of living crisis. writing in the sunday telegraph, she says she would set out immediate action on energy bills, with financial support for households and businesses. her opponent, the former chancellor rishi sunak, says nothing is off the table to ease the pressure on households. ben wright reports. as borisjohnson packs up his premiership, tomorrow we will find out who is moving in. the new prime minister will enter number ten on tuesday, and one issue will dominate their first days in office: soaring energy bills for households and businesses. liz truss is widely expected to win the tory leadership contest, but she hasn t spelt out pr
searched his florida resort for sensitive files. the most vicious, hateful and divisive speech ever delivered by an american president. hello and welcome, if you re watching in the uk or around the world. we begin this hour in britain. the front runner to become the next uk prime minister, liz truss, has promised she ll set out immediate action on energy bills next week, if she is announced as leader of the tory party tomorrow. she told the bbc s laura kuenssberg that she would lay out plans to cut taxes and get the economy growing again. she also said she would focus on securing long term energy supplies for the uk. herfellow contender, rishi sunak, said he had a clear plan and framework to tackle energy bills and he would help three groups of people. our political correspondent, tony bonsignore, told me more. what we know is liz truss is promising there will be immediate action, within a week of her taking office, and, if as we expect, she does become prime minister, that w
one of her new songs, replacing a word after disability campaigners raised concerns about the lyrics. we start with the war in ukraine. a ship has left the port city of odesa for the first time in months as part of a landmark deal with russia. it s carrying over 20,000 tonnes of grain. this is the moment it finally got going. remember, ukraine is known as the bread basket of europe . many countries depend on it for grain. lebanon is one of them that s where the ship is headed. the green dot shows where it is right now. you can see that progress is slow that could be because it needs to navigate around mines scattered in the water. let s hear from the un secretary general. today s secretary general. departure is an enormous collective today s departure is an enormous collective achievement by the joint coordination centre set up last week in istanbul under united nations auspices. what we have witnessed today in odesa is an important starting point. it must be the first o