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 epicentre of this crisis, to see for himself what patients and staff are experiencing. We are at ten on the corridor. Weve no capacity. We are going to come out and assess them in the ambulance so it will be one nurse coming out to each patient. Sue has worked here in a e for over 30 years. The last six, 12 months have been more challenging than i have ever known in the time i have worked here. The department was built to treat 21 patients. Right now, there are 60 waiting. We are running two and three times above our capacity continually, and often more than that. Is it sometimes so busy that you cant prevent delays for the Ambulance Crews . Yes, it is, yes. And then that is when we have the big delays and backlogs and when we get to that point, we are very often having to go out to the ambulances to see and assess them. We cant even get them in. And how much has that happened in the last few weeks . Its happened quite a lot, quite a lot, yes. Away from the noise of a e is Intensive Care the sickest patients. And it is nearly full. We have got one empty at the minute. The lady hasjust gone down to the ward. Sojust one empty bed. Its manic, to be honest. Obviously, there is significant pressure on the nhs, but it has felt busy in as much as it has been really difficult to try and get people home and get discharged from the ward and discharged from here. Um, itsjust felt blocked everywhere. It has been really, really difficult. Back in a e. Loud hubbub. The noise of staff and machines is striking. So as you can see, um, this is the quad. All the bays are full. We have even had to have some people waiting by the triage area, the assessment area. This is the heart of a e patients tucked into any available space. They have made it off the corridor. Some are waiting to be assessed. Most are waiting for a bed. Sometimes, we can have trolleys in all the spaces. So we have had trolleys all around, all around the assessment areas. Here, there is never a quiet moment, with so many patients to care for. A e is full because bolton, like other hospitals we have been to, says beds are hard to find. Here, 100 patients are fit to leave but cant because of Community Care issues. The government has recently given £200 million for extra Social Care Beds in england. How much will it help here . It may be a little bit too late to deal with the current pressures we are facing. But money is always welcome. That is your zimmer frame. Royal bolton is doing all it can to prepare patients for leaving the hospital. Oh, you are doing marvellous. We saw how, soon after they arrive, staff begin the rehab process. Perfect. But flu is adding to the pressure. Diane was so poorly, her husband took her to see the gp, who told him to get her to hospital fast rather than waiting for an ambulance. He were holding me up. I couldnt walk straight. And the gp saw me and she got the. Typed the note and sent me straight to a e. So. So i would say that gp saved my life. Staff say flu and Covid Pressures mean it is harder than during the worst of the pandemic. The staff is exhausted. It feels as difficult as it was during covid. But in fact, slightly more difficult because during covid, a lot of services, we stopped, but now we are keeping on all elective services, plus we are managing the pressures at the front end. The hospital is pointing as many patients as possible who are less seriously ill to other areas of care, but the corridor still looks like this. Despite everything, susan is philosophical. The workload is tough. We have had to adapt and change our ways of working. But we are a e nurses, and we take what is put in front of us, and we deal with it the best we can. Hugh pym, bbc news, bolton. Well, as you heard there, one of the big problems at that hospital is the number of patients who could leave but who dont have anywhere to go that has suitable care. Our analysis editor ros atkins looks at the issues surrounding the crisis in social care. Thanks, sophie. The government has been highlighting one of the problems underlying this winters nhs crisis. We have got around 13,000 patients in hospital who are ready to leave hospital, they are medically fit to leave, but they are often delayed because of challenges in social care. And the challenges in social care are acute affected by capacity in the system, which is struggling with staff shortages. The current Staff Vacancy Rate is over 10 in a workforce of more than 1. 5 million, the highest since records began. Arguably, its wage levels that are most affecting recruitment and retention. An average wage for care staff is £9. 50. Thats the legal minimum wage for most adults. You can go to a shop assistant, go and work in audi and you are on more money with us, with so much less responsibility and stress. There is not a lot of Emotional Stress that you take home with you. That issue of low pay is connected to funding and what Care Providers receive. According to the heathcare charity the kings fund, social care spending per head has fallen in real terms over the last decade. And as the Adult Population increases, that puts more pressure on what councils can afford. This is one of the few vacant rooms we have available at the home at the moment and it would probably be rented out for something in the region of £1200 per week. Social Services Rates will pay a little over half of that. But it costs the nhs around £1,000 a week more to keep a patient in hospital. And these core challenges are not new, as Care Providers point out. There is no Political Party with clean hands in this. You know, tony blair promised us that he was going to reform social care. We are seven Prime Ministers down from that. We have all had them telling us they are going to do something and none of them have. Since 2010, there have been five conservative Prime Ministers. A Cross Party Commission in 2011 said the social care system was not fit for purpose, and recommending reform. But no changes came. Eight years later we had one boris johnson. I eight years later we had one boris johnson. ,. ,. ,. , johnson. I am announcing now on the ste s of johnson. I am announcing now on the steps of downing johnson. I am announcing now on the steps of Downing Street johnson. I am announcing now on the steps of Downing Street that johnson. I am announcing now on the steps of Downing Street that we johnson. I am announcing now on the steps of Downing Street that we will i steps of Downing Street that we will fix the crisis in social care once and for all, with a clear plan we have prepared. But and for all, with a clear plan we have prepared and for all, with a clear plan we have prepared. But the social care crisis is yet have prepared. But the social care crisis is yet to have prepared. But the social care crisis is yet to be have prepared. But the social care crisis is yet to be fixed. And this week, rishi sunak� s government announced £250 million to buy thousands of beds in care homes and upgrade hospitals, and promising reform, including a cap on personal costs recommended to the government more than a decade ago. The moneys on top of £500 million announced last year and giving English Councils the opportunity to raise more through taxes. Last autumn, sir andrew dilnot, the man whose proposals the government says it believes in, had this stark assessment. We have a system that is creaking, thatis we have a system that is creaking, that is falling apart, putting enormous pressure on the wonderful people who deliver their care, as well as the individuals who need the care and their families. Well as the individuals who need the care and theirfamilies. It is hard to think of a more Vulnerable Group than people in that position and our system is something that we should all be ashamed of. Its a system the nhs needs to lean on this winter. But social care is struggling to share the load. And patients need two systems which can act as one. Back to you, sophie. Thank you. Joining me now is our Health Editor hugh pym. You have been doing thisjob you have been doing this job for almost a decade and you report on it all the time. What you saw at the royal Bolton Hospital in greater manchester, how surprised where you buy conditions that patients and staff are in at the moment . Well, i was very struck staff are in at the moment . Well, i was very struck by staff are in at the moment . Well, i was very struck by the staff are in at the moment . Well, i was very struck by the noise staff are in at the moment . Well, i was very struck by the noise and i staff are in at the moment . Well, i| was very struck by the noise and the stress and strain, with staff working absolutely flat out to deal with the stream of patients, in buildings really designed ten years ago or more than that to cope with a far lower number of patients then. It is similarfor many far lower number of patients then. It is similar for many other hospitals, these very cramped conditions. But in bolton, they are doing all they possibly can under the standard a e playbook, streaming patients, moving the less seriously ill away from the front door and the main bit of a e to the Minor Injuries Unit or Urgent Care Centre with a gp. They feel they are doing all of that but still, they end up with the kind of scenes that you have seen there. And many other hospitals are seeing something similar. Nhs england said there was a Record Number of people in england going into a e in december, 2. 3 million, a Record Number of 999 calls, and i think all this underlines the need for an urgent debate about the future of Emergency Care and how it can be improved next winter. ,. , ~ ,. , you can check on the situation with waiting times at your local Hospital Service using the bbc� s nhs Winter Tracker on our website. Wherever you are in the uk, just put in your postcode to see the latest published information on waits in a e, routine operations and ambulances thats at bbc. Co. Uk nhstracker. Now, you may not have heard of the online influencer andrew tate, but if youve got teenagers, particularly boys, they almost certainly will have. The self proclaimed misogynist has a loyal following on social media, despite being banned from facebook, instagram, tiktok and youtube. Hes currently being held in romania in connection with a criminal inquiry into suspected Human Trafficking, allegations he denies. Some schools are so worried about his influence that theyre devoting entire lessons to trying to counteract his views. Our Special Correspondent lucy manning reports. Andrew tate is in a romanianjail, but he still sits in the minds of british teenagers. So why is it that andrew tate has had so much impact. . At st dunstan� s college, they dont ignore the problem. If i were to tell you that there were ways of making money. The online influencer had millions of followers, but views he admits are misogynistic. He has been arrested as part of a rape and Human Trafficking investigation. He denies the allegations. What is it about his videos that gives the perception of him being so popular . Because at first, seemingly, most of his videos are, like, he might have a funnyjoke at the beginning but as you watch more and more of the videos, his radical views develop and it kind of like seeps into your mind. Another reason its so successful is because its controversial. So it will like, invoke a reaction and make people angry, which will make them more likely to like, talk about it. Someone who, like, dresses really well, has lots of money, lots of cars, and he, like, brings that into his videos a lot and he kind of connects that with his views. If they see loads of views, it is something they are going to click on because they want to, like, be in with the crowd. Ijust want you to raise your hands if you were aware of andrew tate before all of this happened. So you are all aware, most of you, almost everyone in the class, 0k. Even those who have reported them as offensive cant escape them. Like, with andrew tate videos, i got one of his and ive put, this makes me uncomfortable, like, i dont want to see it again, or im not interested, and i still get them. I got one yesterday. Some people would say that you just need to ignore the views of andrew tate. Yeah, i mean, iabsolutely hear that, but the reality is that these young, vulnerable teenagers with growing minds are in that space and they are listening to people like andrew tate and it is having hugely negative impact on their outlook on life. So how to tackle the views, not just of andrew tate but others who have moved into the online space . The government points to proposed new laws to tighten the age restrictions on those looking at harmful content online, but it is clear tech companies, schools and parents all have a role to play. What is acceptable and whats not acceptable. And parents are grappling with the consequences. Simons son, told off by his school yesterday, you know, with kids, we have always taken the approach that you set right from wrong. It is ok to express your masculinity but dont do it in an obnoxious and sort of misogynistic way. A conversation that many are now having. Lucy manning, bbc news. A Russian PrivateArmy Fighting in ukraine claims its found the body of one of two british aid workers whove been reported missing. The bbc hasnt been able to verify the claim. 28 year old chris parry, seen here on the left, and andrew bagshaw, who is a8, were last seen on friday. They were reportedly heading to the town of soledar in the east of the country close to the front line. 0ur Ukraine Correspondentjames Waterhouse is in kyiv. James. What more can you tell us . The picture is blurry at the moment. The closer you get to heavy fighting in this conflict, the more difficult it is to verify claims from both sides. Andrew bagshaw and Christopher Parry were last seen heading to soledar where we are seeing some of the most intense fighting. We were there over the weekend. Its a place where shells are pretty much raining down and there is close proximity fighting between ukraines military and mercenaries from the so called wagner group which is doing most of russias fighting in this part of ukraine. The mens families have talked of their pride and their worry since the disappearance last friday, and frankly this is a part of ukraine where if you go missing you are either injured, killed or captured. So the posting of their alleged documents by the wagner group as well as claims they found a body will have caused a lot of fear for their families. Body will have caused a lot of fear fortheirfamilies. But body will have caused a lot of fear for their families. But these are claims that we are just unable to verify at this stage. The Kremlin In Moscow has told the bbc it doesnt have any information. The mens families will hope that changes soon. ,. , families will hope that changes soon. , soon. James waterhouse with the latest from soon. James waterhouse with the latest from ukraine, soon. James waterhouse with the latest from ukraine, thank soon. James waterhouse with the latest from ukraine, thank you. L soon. James waterhouse with the i latest from ukraine, thank you. The time is just after quarter past six. Our top story this evening the nhs in crisis ambulance response times and a e waits in december are the worst on record. And coming up Harry Stylesjointly leads the way with four nominations for this years brit awards. Coming up in sportsday on the bbc news channel. The pressures on graham potter. One win in seven as he takes his chelsea side to neighbours fulham looking to get their season back on track. A group of afghan families who were brought to the uk after the taliban took power are taking the government to court after their accomodation was changed. At first the four families were housed in a london hotel but then they were moved to the north of england meaning their children had to leave their school. Theyve struggled to find new schools and say their education has suffered. Heres our home editor mark easton. Amid the chaos of the evacuation from kabul in the summer of 2021, the uk promised a warm welcome to the families of afghans whod worked with british forces. They did right by us and we want to do right