have you harmed yourself today at all? an increasing proportion of 999 calls to the police relate to a mental health crisis. have you tried to take your own life before? she s saying she can t breathe. this is wrong, man, this is wrong. and now the metropolitan police commissioner has made it clear that from september his officers won t attend mental health incidents unless there s a risk to life. in a letter to health and care agencies, sir mark rowley says londoners are being failed by sending police officers, not medical professionals, to those in mental health crisis and expecting them to do their best in circumstances where they re not the right people to be dealing with the patient. some of the national analysis suggests that the work going on across the country where police officers dealing with mental health is the equivalent capacity that could deal with 500,000 victims of domestic violence. the suggestion that officers will refuse to attend many calls relating to ps
hello, i m lukwesa burak. president biden has said a deal with republicans to raise the us government debt ceiling is very close and he s optimistic it will be achieved. the two sides have a little more breathing room after the treasury secretary, janet yellen, extended the deadline slightly, saying the government would not run out of money untiljune 5. they re working on an agreement that would ensure no repeat of the stand off before next year s presidential election. as the clock ticked down to the midnight deadline which hasjust passed mr biden hinted a deal might be not be too far away. with regards to the debt limit, things are looking good. i m very optimistic. i hope we ll have some clearer evidence tonight, before the clock strikes 12:00, that we have a deal. but it s very close and i m optimistic. and our north america correspondent nomia iqbal sent us this update. lawmakers have now been given a little more time to find that much needed solution. many of them h
against russian forces. in a rare interview, oleksiy danilov told the bbc the planned assault was an historic opportunity but the government had no right to make a mistake when making such an important decision. mr danilov has been speaking to our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. we have been talking about this counteroffensive for months, and during that time ukraine has been building up stockpiles of ammunition, it s been taking receipt of tanks and armoured vehicles from the west. it s been training its troops as much as it can. so when we sat down with oleksiy danilov, the man who is at the heart of what is effectively ukraine s war cabinet, it was inevitable that we were going to talk about the circumstances around which this counteroffensive may at some stage begin and this is what he told me. translation: we will figure out | when that will start so we can have that best result at that point of war. it could happen tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or in a
report focusing on what s at stake for ordinary turks. a passenger opens the door of a commercial plane in mid air. hello, i m matthew, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we start in ukraine, where a russian missile attack on a health clinic in the city of dnipro has killed at least three people and injured 25. this video, posted on social media by the regional governor and verified by the bbc, shows severe damage at the clinic, with firefighters battling to put out a blaze engulfing the three storey building. the local governor says, two children are among those injured. writing on telegram in response to the attack on a medical facility. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky says russian terrorists once again confirm their status of fighters against everything humane and honest. the strike on dnipro came during another night of russian missile and drone attacks. ukraine says most were shot down. an oil depo
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