four year old is taken to hospital following an attack. it s prompted calls for more responsible dog ownership. good evening. the un says thousands of deaths could have been avoided in libya if the authorities had passed on warnings to the people in the coastal city of derna. derna, with its population of 100,000, was the hardest hit more than 5,000 are known to have died but many thousands more are still missing. 0ur correspondent anna foster has just arrived in libya in the coastal city of benghazi. that s where desperately needed aid is arriving too and shejoins me now. 0ne one thing that becomes very quickly apparent is how big the scale of the task facing libya is right now. benghazi is a small airport and it is farfrom the benghazi is a small airport and it is far from the hive of activity you might expect in the wake of a devastating natural disaster like this because this is a country ravaged by more than a decade of conflict. you can see the split political allegia
the prime minister has admitted it will be difficult to keep his promise to cut hospital waiting lists in england saying that industrial action by nhs staff had made the situation worse. but the doctors union described that as a cheap shot . more than 7.5 million people are now waiting for an appointement the highest number since records began. just under 400,000 have been waiting for more than a year. meanwhile the nhs in england is getting an extra £200 million to help it cope with the usual winter pressures though that s just a tiny fraction of its budget. here s our health editor, hugh pym. no time to say hi, so i ll say thanks, thanks, thanks. you guys do a smashing job. in a hurry to tell staff about new money for the nhs. someone else is going to have to do this. the prime minister was at north devon district hospital announcing plans to cope with winter pressures. in the south west of england services last winter were under severe strain with long ambulance d
good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the government has announced its plans to reduce legal migration, promising the biggest reduction in the number of people invited to the uk either on work or student visas, as their dependants, or for humanitarian reasons. the plans include raising the minimum salary for skilled workers, except for health or social care workers, which make up the bulk of visas. and the number of family members that can be brought here will be further limited. last year, overall net migration reached a record high of around three quarters of a million the difference in the number of people arriving and leaving the uk. that s a long, long way from the tens of thousands first promised when the conservatives came to power in 2010. the government claims its new plans will reduce the numbers eligible to come here by 300,000. the government s plan for a treaty with rwanda part of their approach to dealing with illegal immigration such as people
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. several leading eu states say they ll re start the roll out of the oxford astrazeneca vaccine after europe s medicines regulator concluded the jab was safe and effective . the european medicines agency has been conducting a review after 13 member states suspended use of the astrazeneca vaccine, over fears of a possible link with blood clots. now the ema is saying that while it cannot definitively rule out a connection, these cases are very rare , and the benefits of using the astrazeneca vaccine outweigh the risks: every injection, every vaccine given is another person protected. half a million people a day here are getting immunised at present. many eu countries suspended using the oxford astrazeneca jab pending the outcome of today s safety review. in hull, there was no sign of vaccine hesitancy. i was waiting a long time. i m in my 60s, and i ve only just really got mine, so i was just happy it s finally done.