last post plays. buckingham palace confirmed the queen will be at the cenotaph on sunday as the nation falls silent to mark armistice day. and the man who spent lockdown sorting out an old box of dinosaur bones and discovered a new species. and coming up on the bbc news channel, aston villa announce steven gerrard as their new manager. the former liverpool captain leaves rangers after guiding them to their first league title in a decade. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. almost six million people are now waiting for routine hospital treatment in england the highest level since records began. the head of the nhs confederation has warned that unprecedented demand could compromise patient safety with the ambulance service in particular coming under extreme pressure. 5.83 million people in england are now waiting to start treatment on the nhs, the highest number since records began nearly 15 years ago. the ambulance service is under its highest state of alert.
armisitice day. today we have closed the book on apartheid. south africa s former president f.w. de klerk the last white man to lead the country has died at the age of 85. and the man who spent lockdown sorting out an old box of dinosaur bones and discovered a new species. almost 6 million people are now waiting for routine hospital treatment in england, the highest level since records began. the head of the nhs confederation has warned that unprecedented demand could compromise patient safety, with the ambulance service in particular coming under extreme pressure. 5.83 million in england are now waiting to start treatment in the nhs, the highest number since records began nearly 15 years ago. the ambulance service is under its highest state of alert. latest figures show the average response time for urgent calls, like heart attacks and strokes, is nearly 5a minutes. the target is 18 minutes. last month, more than a million 999 calls were answered in england, a record number.
welcome to the beat. i m katie fang in for ari melber. big developments in two cases involving donald trump. the new york election interference hush money case, that trial now delayed by at least 30 days for the judge to consider arguments about evidence in that case. the southern district of new york has only now handed over more than 100,000 documents to manhattan district attorney alvin brag in recent weeks with 15,000 pages turned over just today. also today a long-awaited ruling in the georgia rico case with a big decision. the judge overseeing the case against donald trump declining to disqualify district attorney fani willis ruling one of them must step down from the case to continue. the lead prosecutor, nathan wade, this afternoon taking the fall, resigning his position, quote, in the interest of democracy and, quote, to move this case forward as quickly as possible. today fani immediately accepting his resignation. the judge may have shot down his attempt to dis
of forever chemicals the hottest ne sensation in the nba draft, he was number one in the draft, the expectations on him now a tall order and the cellphone earns its place in history. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome. was it an elite travel adventure or reckless experiment that challenged the laws of engineering? difficult questions being asked tonight, as officials and deep sea diving experts speak out on the deaths of five people on a visit to the titanic aboard a vessel built with uncertified technology tonight, oceangate, the company behind that deadly submersible dive, says it is closing indefinitely after the apparent implosion that killed, among others, oceangate s founder. meanwhile, we are now getting the first information on how the international investigation might take shape, as questions continue to focus on the design of the mini-sub and whether it should have been diving to such depths tom costello has late
accountability tonight. the critical new report about air-traffic control staffing shortages. the risks it cites just as the busiest summer travel season in years gets under way. the remarkable reopening of a collapsed stretch of one of the nation s busiest highways less than two weeks after that tanker disaster. after a week of severe storms and brutal heat, the threat far from over into the weekend. our forecasts. a major win for the biden administration on immigration in the supreme court, a huge class action settlement over tainted drinking water. why why 3rksm has agreed to pay over $10 pillion. the hottest senication in the nba, the expectations on him now a tall order. and the cellphone earns its place in history. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. was it an elite travel adventure or reckless experiment that challenged the laws of engineering? difficult questions being asked tonight as officials and deep se