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
and england get ready for the clash in cardiff, in their crucial six nations game against wales. and coming up in sportsday in bbc news: tom varndell becomes the premiership‘s all time leading try scorer as he beats mark cueto s record with his 91st try. good evening. a controversial investigation costing tens of millions of pounds, into claims of the abuse of iraqi civilians by british troops is to be shut down within months . it follows a scathing report by mps into the iraq historic allegations team, which it described as an unmitigated failure , investigating thousands of claims unsupported by credible evidence and that soldiers under investigation, had suffered u na cce pta ble stress . 90% of investigations into abuse allegations from afghanistan are also being dropped. our diplomatic correspondent, caroline hawley, has the story. it s almost 1a years since british troops invaded it s almost 14 years since british troops invaded iraq and the legacy of the war is
resolution, particularly one that blames president assad and his government. i would suspect that if a resolution could come forward it would be a pretty toothless one. so what is to stop president assad carrying out similar strikes? he has already crossed a red line that president obama said he should never cross, in 2013. clearly if he has conducted these sarin attacks then he did not comply with the commitment he made to get rid of all the gas so that is one thing. secondly there is a clear rule against using this kind of material, both specifically on syria and past security council resolutions and also in the geneva bread gelling of gas warfare of 1925 geneva protocol. it has become a general rule of the monarchy if i can call it that and he is guilty of a couple of counts. the question is, absent of counts. the question is, absent ofa of counts. the question is, absent of a security council resolution, should the us decide it wants to act forcefully in one way or ano
A sailor from one of the UK s top secret nuclear submarines was quizzed by police less than an hour before he mysteriously disappeared, The Scottish Mail on Sunday can reveal.