then bringing up old hurts and deliberately finding people in anguish to put on our screens. i m fed up with it. now the bbc s director general lord hall and out the corporation s annual plan this week, and he addressed what he called the huge competition presented online by companies such as amazon and netflix. one of the responses he proposed was the development of virtual reality content including in news and current affairs. there has a ready been some work in this area including a short vr film which dramatises a syrian family s journey to europe on smuggled boats. we are all tired. the film, based on real account of it by bbc news and animated by the makers of wallace and gromit won an industry award this week. it may not be news as we know it, but could it be the future? virtual reality footage like that is only properly experience by wearing a headset. but a simpler version, 360 degrees video can be viewed online or on mobiles. the first such report was filmed followi
newsroom. live in washington as well. get in touch. the contact details arejust here. for the trump presidency it s business as usual today. by that i meana business as usual today. by that i mean a cabinet confirmation, legal battles over its travel ban and defending claims it has made that are demonstrably untrue. we will get to those in a moment. first of all,, later an appeals court will hear arguments for and against the ban. it is suspended at the moment. we know some of the justice department s argument because last night it filed some statements. they say the president is best placed to make decisions about national security. it is incorrect to call it a ban on muslims because the seven countries were identified further terror risk. let s back let s bring the bbc correspondent live from washington. a lot of us are getting confused as to where this appeals court fits into the other legal processes. help us out, please? sure. it started at the district court in seatt
it s 5 o clock. our main story is that record numbers of patients spent more than four hours in accident and emergency units in england in january, according to figures leaked to the bbc. during a difficult winter for the nhs, january seems to be the worst performing month in the past 13 years. the figures also suggest record numbers of people waited longer than 12 hours for a hospital bed, once they d been seen in a&e. the bma said the prime minister could no longer bury her head in the sand over increasing pressure in the nhs. and it accused the government of failing to grasp the seriousness of the situation. our health correspondent dominic hughes reports. for months now, accident and emergency departments across england have been struggling. last week, the bbc was given exclusive access to the royal blackburn hospital, where the pressure on a&e was plain to see. we need beds and staff. it s just like banging your head you need a bed. definitely. it s distressing. it s r
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
presenting on radioi promoted their mental health campaign. mike s taken to the slopes this week, trying to keep up with 18 year old millie knight, britain s first world champion para skier. in sport chelsea chase the double the premier league leaders take on their closes rivals tottenham, in the first of this weekend s fa cup semi finals at wembley. and we take a look at the weather with them. plenty of dry weather, even some sunshine, but a plenty of dry weather, even some sunshine, buta big plenty of dry weather, even some sunshine, but a big change on the way for the start of next week. something much colder on the way. i will have all of the details later. thank you very much. good morning. first, our main story. the conservatives are attempting to play down speculation that they will raise taxes if they win the general election. yesterday, the chancellor, phillip hammond, hinted that the government might abandon the pledge made at the last election not to raise income