take a long hard look at ourselves. what we want, how we pay, what we smoke, what we drink, how we live, how we die. we are more likely to from comparable conditions than in other comparable countries and then there is the elephant in the ward, social care. the nhs is ours. let s hear from you. now for the news. health experts are warning that the nhs won t celebrate its 100th birthday without significant investment in beds, buildings and technology. three think tanks have made the claims as the service marks its 75th birthday. there ll be a special service to commemorate nhs workers at westminster abbey later. schools in england are facing further disruption, as teachers from the national education union strike over pay. they re walking out today and on friday. the government insists its latest pay offer is fair and reasonable. israel has carried out air strikes in the gaza strip, after rockets were fired overnight. the israeli army is withdrawing from jenin in the occupied
nature, and animals. i promise you what you see on your screen will all make sense later tonight. i m going to ask you to go on a ride with me that might be even more far out than when we featured funk legend george clinton or talked ufos. that s later tonight. open mind. please stay with me for it. as you might be able to hear, i m pretty enthused about it. now, actual ufos are also back in the news. we didn t plan that. fighter jet operations by the u.s. shooting some down. we have that story tonight as well. but the pentagon facing pressure to provide even more information. and nobel prize-winning economist paul krugman also here tonight as well. so we really do have a lot cooking for you here to start the week. i hope you stay with us for the whole hour. we ve certainly planned a full hour for you. right now, the top story is the kind of news that would keep rocking any former president, especially one trying to mount a comeback campaign, even if i d be the first
and a friendship forged through football. one month after the death of bradley lowery, jermain defoe speaks for the first time about how they met. for me, there is no bigger motivation to think, if he can go through that and fight, then i can go through anything. and, strange flotsam giant segments of pipe wash up on a norfolk beach the longest measuring nearly 500 metres. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has said the rhetoric from washington and pyongyang has now gone over the top and he helps now gone over the top and he hopes common sense will prevail. he has also said there is a russia chinese plan to defuse the crisis. the intervention follows president trump stepping up the rhetoric against north korea. he warned that us military options are locked and loaded , should pyongyang act unwisely. the united states and north korea have been engaged in a war of words for days with pyongyang threatening to fire missiles tow
justin trudeau, is in washington today for his first summit meeting with president trump. and adele triumphs with five awards at the grammys, then pays tribute to rival beyonce, who had been tipped to win the best album. my artist of my life is beyonce and this album for the lemonade album, was just so monumental. beyonce, so monumental. it s five o clock. our main story is the government s response to the latest evidence of failings in the prison system in england and wales. the justice secretary, liz truss, in her first major speech today on sentencing has said there can be no quick fix to reduce the prison population. she spoke as her officials launched an urgent investigation into evidence of security failings at the privately run northumberland prison, filmed by an undercover reporter from the bbc‘s panorama programme. he secretly recorded widespread drug abuse and major security lapses. our special correspondent ed thomas has more details. undercover in one of our b
approximately a 30 foot wall of water that would be coming out of the lake, not the lake draining but a30 the lake, not the lake draining but a 30 foot wall of water. an award too many for record breaking adele as she says she can t accept her fifth grammy of the night for best album. i can t possibly except this award. the artist of my life is beyonce and this lemonade album was so monumental beyonce, so monumental! and coming up on the sport on bbc news. chelsea s lead at the top of the premier league could be reduced to eight points if pep guardiola s manchester city can win at bournemouth tonight. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. a bbc investigation has found evidence of major security failings at a privately run prison in northumberland. an undercover reporter from the bbc‘s panorama spent two months working as a prison officer at the jail near morpeth. he secretly filmed widespread drug abuse and discovered that door alarms didn t work and there was