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a sustained gunfight with terrorists, not that that happened this time, but if it did. and they have changed procedures to be able to. moving vehicle. before, they had the it gives you an indication of the it gives you an indication of the level of training offices are going through to deal with things like this. people having to get used to these attacks, paris, nice, the list goes on? the police have said very little, perhaps a little less, met police, when parliament was attacked by khalid masood. they have said they need people to remain calm, vigilant and alert and they have put out the advice about being aware of what s going on, running from the scene, if something is happening, hiding and telling the police, reporting what is going on, that s very important so they ve put that advice out. it shows they are trying to get those messages out. quite dramatic advice? , yes and quite dramatic advice? , yes and quite dramatic advice? , yes and quite dramatic advi ....
thought about, not just something they threw together tonight. the advice is sometimes a little bit different, it involves fighting back. at the official advice here is to get out of the area and tell the police. if you cannot get out, then hide. it shows they want to get that message across directly to the public because the way police communications work these days is to talk directly via twitter and social media to the public, and not worry about what people like me will say in reporting what the police say. speak directly to the public and hope that people can get on with a life of a cell. happens around them. that was our home affairs correspondent talking to me earlier on. since then we have learned from the assistant commissioner that six people have died in these terror attacks. we are at the cordon here and it is much calmer than it was a few hours ago but you can still see a lot of police down towards the end of the road. we are quite near the shard here as da ....
even some who have fallen and not been found for days. a&e staff recognise the problems too. the pressures on the nhs and especially in emergency care are particularly intense at the moment. but what is more concerning is the number of patients who have been managed within four hours and then the delays to admission into the hospital bed base which unfortunately are very, very significant and our staff are working under some pretty intolerable conditions at times. and sometimes they just can t manage. figures from nhs england show that overflowing a&e departments had to close their doors to new patients more than 140 times over the last month. compare that to the same month in 2015 and it s up more than 60%. so is the strain costing lives? the humanitarian crisis? no, i think that s an overstatement at this stage. clearly, demand is very high and it s higher than it has ever been, but we have the most comprehensive plans in place that we ever had, but it is very difficu ....
the landmark in united s 4 0 victory over reading in the third round of the fa cup. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the nhs in england has denied claims from the british red cross that there s a ‘humanitarian crisis‘ in its hospitals. latest figures show a&e departments have had to shut their doors to patients more than 140 times in december because of a lack of beds. the red cross, which helps patients return home from hospital, is calling for more government money. but nhs england say plans are in place to cope with additional demand, and that talk of a humanitarian crisis is overblown. our health correspondent smitha mundasad reports. winter pressure on accident and emergency, nothing new. but the red cross now says the strain on hospitals in england amounts to a humanitarian crisis. the charity claims social care cuts mean patients are being sent home without the right support so they end up back in a&e. red cross volunteers support nhs staff and say the ....
the £14 billion problem on the nation s roads. calls on the government to increase fuel duty by 2p a litre to pay for repairs to potholes. wayne rooney equals sir bobby charlton as manchester united s biggest ever goal scorer, reaching the landmark with their 4 0 victory over reading. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the nhs in england has rejected claims that there s a humanitarian crisis in its hospitals. the comments from the british red cross come as figures show a&e departments have had to shut their doors to patients more than 140 times in december because of a lack of beds. this afternoon the labour leader jeremy corbyn called upon the government to take urgent action, but nhs england says plans are in place to cope and that talk of any humanitarian crisis is overblown. there are flashing images in smitha mundasad s report. winter pressures in accident and emergency some patients waiting a long time to be seen, beds closed because of the winter vomiting ....