And the Legendary British rock Guitaristjeff Beck has died at the age of 78. And coming up on the bbc news channel. Australia refuse to play cricket in aghanistan in a stand against the treatment of women by the taliban. As they withdraw from marchs one day series. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. If you called an ambulance in england back in october for someone who was having a heart attack or a stroke, the average waiting time was an hour. The latest figures from nhs england showjust how much the situation has worsened since then. If you made the same call last month, the wait was half an hour longer a full 92 minutes on average before an ambulance would get to you. The target is 18 minutes. For weeks, weve been reporting on the unrelenting pressures facing the nhs this winter. Senior doctors have told us the Health Service is operating on a knife edge. Now our Health Editor hugh pym has been allowed into the royal Bolton Hospital, and into a e, which is at the epicen
Investigation is launched. Iran releases an alleged confession of spying by a British Iranian man whos facing the Death Sentence he says the confession was forced. The social media personality andrew tate investigated in relation to organised crime, we investigate his popularity with young people. And the Brit Award Nominations are out with a notable absence of women in the category of artist of the year. And stay with us here on Bbc News Channel for continuing coverage in analysis with our team of correspondents in the uk and around the world. Good evening. Ambulance response times in england and waits in accident and Emergency Departments have reached the highest levels on record. The latest figures have exposed the Alarming State of Emergency Care in the National Health service. For some emergencies, including suspected strokes and heart attacks, the average wait was over 90 minutes. The target is 18 minutes. More than a third of patients waited more than four hours to be assessed a
An audit exit if this is put in charge of this years climate complement. And a look at whats happening in the front line town of soledar as russia and ukraine fight for control. Welcome to the programme. We start with the controversy in washington. The white house has confirmed that a second set of classified documents has been found in the garage of President Biden s home in delaware. Its thought the documents are linked to Barack Obamas time in the white house Whenjoe Biden was Vice President. And in the last half hour, us Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of Special Counsel to investigate joe biden s handling of the documents. This Appointment Underscores for the public the departments commitment to independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters and to Making Decisions guided only by the facts and the law. Heres what the us president told reporters a little earlier. As i said earlier this week, and by the way my corvette in a locked garage
stashed at his retirement home in mar-a-lago. a federal appeals court, just before we went to air, just ruled in favor of the justice department. the justice department can have access to roughly 100 highly sensitive classified documents that were taken from mar-a-lago. immediately we saw the appeals court issue this ruling. i was stunned to see it come out so quickly. it s worth taking a step back and recognizing just how extraordinary this moment, this day is. it was almost easy to forget that trump had never actually been indicted. never been sued, you know, by the state entity or anything like that, but today, things look different. that is where we pick things up this morning, on top of the legal setbacks from donald trump comes news from the january 6th committee that the wife of supreme court justice, ginni thomas has agreed to meet with the committee about her efforts to overturn the 2020 election. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it s thursday, joe and m
Impacts and are supported to develop away from fossil fuels. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. Extreme right wing terrorist ideology was behind the firebombing of a Migrant Processing Centre in dover last sunday, say the police a disturbance at a london Immigration Removalfacility during a power outage with reports suggesting it was caused by the detainees disruption on the railways, despite a series of strikes being called off by the unions. Thousands of people gathered in seoul to remember the victims ajudge in the russian occupied Donetsk Region of ukraine who sentenced two British Volunteer fighters to death is reportedly shot and badly injured in what appears to have been an assassination attempt. Now on bbc news. Operation relocation hospital on the move liverpools because hospitals on the move. , liverpools because hospitals on the move. Y. , liverpools because hospitals on the move. ,. , liverpools because hospitals on the move. ,. , more move. Ready to relieve patient.