And coming up on bbc news. Bayern munich s latest bid for harry kane is enough to get a yes from spurs but will they get the same answer from the england captain himself . Hello. The nhs achieved an unwelcome milestone today that nobody wanted. The number of people waiting to start routine Hospital Treatment in england is at a record high nearly 7. 5 Million People. The figures are from the end ofjune, and mean 1 in 7 of the population is waiting for hospital care. Nhs providers, which represents Health Trusts in england, says the numbers arent surprising, given the diffculties the nhs has been facing. This includes backlogs made worse by the pandemic, and strikes by health care workers. Yet rishi sunak has made cutting nhs Waiting Lists one of his key priorities this year. The government today says there are positive signs in the figures, including a drop in those waiting for more than 18 months, and improved Ambulance Response times. To dig into the figures and look at when they migh
irs. and with less than two yearsd tl to go until the twenty twenty four election, democrats are once again shockingle y playing the race card. this time, they re trying to vilify the entire sunshine. state of florida. but first tonight, all eyes areh on the biden white house where joe is still refusing to come ta to terms on a debt ceiling that is , well, pretty imminent.t ist according to democrats, the sky. is falling. the american economyaccordin, the world s economy is about to collapse. and it s all kevin mccarthy s fault. when in fact, it s anything but kevin mccarthy s fault. so why didn t democrats care so deeply about this issue? over. one hundred days ago whens speaker mccarthy was all but begging the white house, you know, weekly, monthly, dayy after da y to sit down and negotiate this? take a look. we have to negotiatek. overtiat. the debt. our whole government is designed to have compromise. our governrepublican control. the house democrats have a small majo
welcome to the programme. the updates from turkey and syria are relentlessly grim. the deathtoll has now passed 20,000 but only a fraction of the devastated areas have been searched, with hope fading for those still trapped. though there are still miracles. these pictures have recently come in from diyarbakir and they show a little boy, six year old basir yildiz, being rescued. crews had been digging for him for 80 hours. but even for the lucky ones like basir, there are challenges ahead. the world health organization has talked about a new disaster, with thousands unable to find shelter, food and water. help is arriving the first aid has crossed into syria, through the one border crossing point that is open. and in the last hour, the director general of the who, dr tedros ghebreyesus, has said he is on his way to syria. for the latest, our chief international correspondent lyse doucet is in southern turkey. it s hard here in southern turkey really hard here, but it s
some reporting for miranda devine s book about a payment, made by f.c., a chinese energy firm, to hunter biden sand th business associate, rob walker . you ve heard about himen. too and then colmer took it a step further, noting that the money was then sent directly to accounts associated with the biden woulds. you think that would be the end of major bombshells for the week, but wasn t the one wee that drug was droppedu are weeingay to laura, you simply won t believe at the end of this. i think we re goingsay theree there are probably six or seven biden family members that were involved in various w business schemes around the world.w wow. brot, weabout knew about hunte we knew about joe s brother, james . but colmer revealing it could me be six or seven biden familyrsm membernes is massive news.e of and last night we learnede un the identity of one of the unknown unknowns who got this money from china? bo s widow and hunter, his exexg girlfriend, howie biden,ir we know
the bbc has been speaking to twitter s owner, elon musk. the last minute, unexpected interview came about after the bbc objected to a new tag describing it as government funded media on its main twitter account. in the interview the billionaire agreed to change this to publicy funded. he also defended the site s policing of hate speech and the mass sackings of staff and described taking over the social media firm as painful. do you have any regrets about buying twitter? i think it was something that needed to be done. it s been quite difficult. i would say, the pain level of twitter has been extremely high. this hasn t been some sort of party, so, it s been really quite a stressful situation in the last several months, not an easy one. so it s been quite painful, but i think at the end of the day, it should have been done and were there are many mistakes made along the way, of course? live now to san francisco and our technology correspondent james clayton. this was a sur