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waits in a&e here have been as long as 30 hours. the hospital trust reporting a near 70% increase in patients coming in. in the foothills of the lake district, cumberland infirmary is the largest accident and emergency hospital in cumbria but it s not big enough. it s already at capacity. there are no more beds. health bosses are working day and night to try and discharge patients. currently i don t have beds free in hospital and we have patients waiting and that is a concern for us and for patients. we have ambulance weights and so we are doing work to look at how we can maximise the space. how s it going today? it s busy. no beds and not enough doctors, with the hospital increasingly reliant on locums, and operation already been postponed. 19 in the last week. plan come from a few miles away, a team working on a solution. they are working round the clock to try and stop patients going into hospital in the first place and they are trying to get them out. we try and ref ....
weather in the west, ten in glasgow and highs up to around 13 in plymouth this afternoon. overnight, a few more showers coming and going across the north of the uk. further southwards, we had some clearer spells developing. that is where we will see some of the lower temperatures. holding up in the countryside to see the odd nip of frost. a cold start tomorrow but an area of high pressure is moving in. despite that, i suspect it will be quite cloudy in wales and southern counties of england. the best of the sunshine to the east of the pennines, for a time in eastern scotland but then rain arriving across the north west in the afternoon. the highest temperatures across western areas, still a little on the cold side in eastern england, just seven for parts of east anglia. into the weekend, we get a weather front stuck across the north west of scotland. this will be bringing some very large falls of rain, particular focused in on the highlands, where over the high ground w ....
for more on this here s our political correspondent alex forsyth a warning her report contains flash photography. it was still dark when conservative mps arrived at downing street earlier this morning. over breakfast, the prime minister was trying to persuade them to back his latest attempt to send asylum seekers to rwanda. are you going to vote against the bill? are you satisfied? they were tight lipped on the way out about whether they d been convinced. some have been clear about their doubts. we are all of one mind on this. we all want the government to succeed in stopping the boats. we all want this legislation to be the right tool to deliver that. and i am genuinely grateful to the government for what they have done to make sure that this is the toughest ever piece of legislation. it is still partial and incomplete. successive home secretaries have been to rwanda, but so far no asylum seekers. some conservative mps say the government s latest attempt still falls ....
there are reports of house to house fighting in the city. as the israeli bombardment of gaza continues, the united nations says half the population of the territory are starving and nine out of ten can t eat every day. it comes as the world health organization holds a special session on the health situation in the occupied palestinian territories we will hear from our correspondent on that later this hour. but first, our middle east correspondent yolande knell has the latest. the misery of life under canvas. four in five gazans have now fled their homes and away from the front lines, they re still fighting to survive, with severe shortages of food and drinking water. aid agencies say that they re struggling to deliver the basics even close to the egypt border where supplies come in. humanitarian aid at the moment is the only lifeline for people, and we re simply not able to get the access that we need to get through. for the past four or five, six days, aid agencies s ....
well, there are 37 books, but of course, these are all the different translations and editions. and as you can see, it starts with eye of the needle. in german, that was die nadel. and comes up all the way to the armour of light. so, 37 books. yeah. in how many languages? a0 languages, altogether. total number of copies sold around the world? 191 million. so, as an author who is very proud of the fact that i ve sold a million, i ve got a long way to go. just making me a littlejealous, ken. you had written, though, 11 books before you had a bestseller. yes. eye of the needle was my 11th, and it was my first bestseller. you didn t start out writing books, though. i mean, that was not your very firstjob. i was a newspaper reporter. so, you wrote your first novel while you had yourjob on the newspaper, and you wrote it in the evenings in your flat in london. yes, that s right. as a kind of side job. you had a young child at the time, though. yes. actually, by that time, we ....