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and thanks the russian president for sending troops. england battle back on the third day of the fourth ashes test as jonny bairstow hits a century. hello and welcome to bbc news. 200 members of the armed forces are being drafted in to help hospitals in london struggling to deal with covid related staff shortages. the royal college of nursing said the government could no longer deny there was a staffing crisis in the nhs. pressure on london hospitals has increased over the past month, with 4,000 patients currently in hospital with covid compared with 1,100 in december. meanwhile, outside of london, hospitalisations have also been ticking upwards with almost 18,000 patients currently in hospital with covid. as of thursday afternoon, 17 hospital trusts in england were experiencing critical incidents concerned they might not be able to provide core priority services, such as emergency care. it means they can get extra help and draft staff in from other duties. health s ....
and sir frank williams who created one the great formula one teams has died. good afternoon. the health secretary says he wants to expand the uk vaccination programme as a matter of urgency because of the new omicron variant of coronavirus. a third case has now been identified here and there are expected to be more with concerns that it may spread more easily and potentially evade current vaccines. ministers say they have acted swiftly. in england, mask wearing in shops and on public transport will be a legal requirement once again, a change that will come into force on tuesday. here s our health correspondent, anna collinson. taking upa taking up a booster when eligible was always important but since taking up a booster when eligible was always important but since the emergence of the heavily mutated kogan diddy over the variant is even more important. kogan diddy over the variant is even more important- more important. queues like this in slou:h more importan ....
former cricketer former yorkshire cricketer azeem rafiq has apologised for anti semitic messages he sent ten years ago just days after giving powerful testimony to mps about the racist abuse he faced himself while a professional player. where is this chinese tennis star? she disappeared after making sexual assault allegations now there s an email saying she s safe and well, but is it genuine? a life sentence for zephaniah mcleod the man who stabbed 8 people in birmingham in what the judge called a murderous rampage. we are happy that this dangerous and evil man has been removed from society and while we continue to grief forjacob we must ask the obvious question, why was macleod known to so many agencies allowed to be out and about? a new report reveals the mental health problems suffered by people living in blocks of flats with unsafe cladding. and the prince of wales and duchess of cornwall visit egypt s ancient and iconic giza pyramids as part of a two day tour of ....
right for me 18 years ago, doesn t mean it can t be improved. i will say to the government, as well as responding to what we ought to have done on wednesday, which is the point of this debate, i d like to hearfrom the government point of this debate, i d like to hear from the government how they ll respond to lord evans s report which came out this week which has four and a half pages of recommendations. this afternoon is not the time to go through those, but we ought to have a coherent approach which helps to ratchet up our observance of standards and recognition of standards, and i think the only thing i ll say on people who have introduced the question of whether mps should have outside jobs introduced the question of whether mps should have outsidejobs introduced the question of whether mps should have outside jobs we do have 100 or so who are ministers that have an extra job as well as being a member of parliament. i often remember democrat say peter thurman, who bec ....
this is the scene there now. a fifth teenager is guilty of killing 15 year old keon lincoln, who was shot and stabbed outside his home in birmingham. an experimental pill to treat covid new trial results show it can cut the risk of hospitalisation or death by nearly 90% in vulnerable adults. and gimme, gimme, gimme new music that s been a long time coming. we speak to abba, on the day they release their first studio album in a0 years. the chairman of yorkshire county cricket club has resigned in the wake of its response to the racism experienced by azeem rafiq when he was a player there. roger hutton has apologised unreservedly to mr rafiq, and has criticised the governing body the england and wales cricket board for what he says was its failure to help. it comes after an investigation found azeem rafiq had been subject to racial harassment and bullying during his time with yorkshire but the club said it would take no disciplinary action. azeem rafiq represented yor ....