emeritus, benedict the 16th, on the first day of his lying in state. the former pontiff will be buried in the crypt on thursday after pope francis presides over his funeral in st peter s square. the british medical association says the nhs is in a crisis and its survival is on a knife edge. it s amplified recent warnings about delays in emergency care, saying patients are dying needlessly. the royal college of emergency medicine says it s become impossible to provide the best standard of care. our health correspondent catherine burns reports. welcome to nhs winter. ambulances lined up outside hospitals, patients waiting in corridors. now there are calls for the government to declare a national major incident. but is this year different to normal? all the other ambulances for the whole area been direct to exeter which is unheard of, we waited 12 hours. it was just horrific. the operator was telling me to get a defibrillator, i thought, telling me to get a defibrillator, ithoug
russia has made a rare acknowledgement that 63 of its soldiers were killed in a new year s eve attack by ukrainian forces. the strikes were carried out with himars rockets supplied by the us and destroyed a former school in the donetsk region, where the soldiers are said to have been temporarily deployed. several russian politicians have said commanders must be held to account for allowing such a large number of troops to be concentrated in an unprotected area. in ukraine, the country s armed forces say the strike killed hundreds of russian soldiers, as our correspondent in kyiv, hugo bachega reports. in a town in eastern ukraine, rubble and many questions. this used to be a school, apparently turned into a base for russian soldiers. at around midnight on new year s eve, ukraine struck. how many were killed remains unclear. in moscow, the army claimed the attack was carried out was also a rare admission of casualties. translation: as a result | of the strike by four rockets
Hugo bachega, bbc news, kyiv. and hugo gave us an update from kyiv and said this assault could impact the next stage of the war. it s quite significant because of the extent of the losses. moscow decided it couldn t stay silent and had to acknowledge the attack. it s also significant because it could suggest a new strategy by the ukrainians. up to now, ukraine has used the long range rockets supplied by the americans to target russia s military logistics and supply lines. but in recent weeks, they have been attacking bases and troop concentrations. since the ukrainians recaptured kherson in november, the front lines haven t changed and the ukrainians have been saying the weather conditions need to improve so they could take back territory. the latest attacks could give a suggestion of where this counter offensive
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