conservation staff and volunteers are battling to save 100 that are still alive, in one of the area s worst whale standings in living memory. good morning, it s friday 10th february. i m rachel schofield. welcome to bbc newsroom live. the health secretary, jeremy hunt, has conceded the nhs in england is facing completely unacceptable problems. he said there was no excuse for some of the difficulties highlighted during the bbc‘s nhs week. a series of reports have revealed lengthening waits in a&e and patients being left for hours on trolleys. in an exclusive interview with the bbc, mr hunt told our health editor hugh pym that the government has a plan, but it will take time to deliver. nhs england figures this winter show the worst waiting time performance in a&e units since records began more than a decade ago. jeremy hunt paid tribute to the work of staff, but said the problems of high patient demand were not unique to the nhs, and all leading health systems were grapp
on the shores of new zealand. coming up in sport we are live here in cardiff at the principality stadium to preview all of this weekend s 6 nations fixtures including wales against england. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the health secretary, jeremy hunt, says it s completely unacceptable that some patients in england are waiting up to 13 hours in a&e. figures show that waiting times in casualty units are worse than at any time in the last decade. and the number of operations cancelled at the last minute hit a fifteen hear high last year. mr hunt insists he does have an improvement plan though didn t reveal it and he admits it will take time. he was talking to our health editor hugh pym. the worst monthly a&e figures in more than a decade. they have corridor nurses as well. times are very desperate. images like this across bbc news. no one would want it for members of their own family. it has been a difficult few days for the health secretary and he ha
and england get ready for the clash in cardiff, in their crucial six nations game against wales. and coming up in sportsday in bbc news: tom varndell becomes the premiership‘s all time leading try scorer as he beats mark cueto s record with his 91st try. good evening. a controversial investigation costing tens of millions of pounds, into claims of the abuse of iraqi civilians by british troops is to be shut down within months . it follows a scathing report by mps into the iraq historic allegations team, which it described as an unmitigated failure , investigating thousands of claims unsupported by credible evidence and that soldiers under investigation, had suffered u na cce pta ble stress . 90% of investigations into abuse allegations from afghanistan are also being dropped. our diplomatic correspondent, caroline hawley, has the story. it s almost 1a years since british troops invaded it s almost 14 years since british troops invaded iraq and the legacy of the war is
let s have a listen. everything good? everything good 7 press everything good? press conference good? i think it was great. are you comfortable? can we talk about what you said in the press conference? sure. you talked about wanting to win this court battle against the immigration travel ban. the u nfortu nate pa rt immigration travel ban. the unfortunate part is it takes time. we ll win that battle. we also have a lot of other options, including just filing a brand new order on monday. is that your plan? it may well be but i like to surprise you. we need speed for reasons of security, so it could very well be that we do. what are some of the changes. very little. in honour of the decision, we will perhaps do that, we ll see but on monday, we ll see. you talked about new security measures, is that separate from potentially writing a new. we ll have very strong vetting, i call it extreme vetting, and we re going to have very strong security in our country. we want to have peop