Campaigning points there is unity. A warning new laws introduced last year to protect tenants in england from so called revenge evictions arent working. Also keeping a cool head. An australian man survives after struggling for hours to keep his nose above water, after his excavator rolled into a waterhole. And could this sound be the origins of the earliest words . Good morning. Its thursday 9th february. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Accident and Emergency Departments in england had their worst waiting time performance in january since targets were introduced 13 years ago. Provisional figures leaked to the bbc also suggest that a record numbers of patients have had to wait on trolleys for a bed to become available. The Department Of Health insists the vast majority of patients are treated quickly. Patients are traditionally supposed to be seen and discharged within four hours, with a target of 95 . But the bbc has learnt the provisional figures forjanuary show only 82 were seen within
And those trump promises pushing wall street to more record highs. And as President Trump orders a review of the financial rules designed to stop another nightmare on wall street, well be getting the inside track from our economics editor Kamal Ahmed On that and the rest of the stories hes been covering this week. As snow hits new york city, how much do you think it costs to clear an inch of the white stuff off the streets . One dollar . One hundred dollars . A Million Dollars . well give you the answer at the end of the show. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. We start in the us where, as youve been hearing, japans Prime Minister shinzo abe meets President Trump later. Trade will be high on the agenda. Remember, one of mr trumps first actions as president was to withdraw from the 12 nation Trans Pacific partnership trade deal signed by obama and strongly supported by the japanese. Mr trump called it a terrible dealfor the us. He wants a fairer trading relations
showers in west wales later and central scotland has a mixture of rain, sleet and snow. temperatures towards the north east of scotland not getting above freezing, one or two spots getting above freezing but this is the last of the very cold days. more cloud in western areas overnight, a mixture of showers and rain on the coast, sleet and snow inland, leading to icy conditions. it could get to 8 in the south east but then we will get the best of the saturday sunshine. wintry showers in northern and western scotland, rain and sleet showers and we showers in wales and the south west later on. temperatures are starting to lift, more above freezing as we hit saturday afternoon. if you have had enough of the cold, the big change is coming our way, low pressure to
good evening. with the bitterly cold weather we have had recently, there are still a lot of snow and ice on untreated surfaces. there is some heavy snow arriving across the west of scotland. may be rain close to the coast, but snow inland. 7 or minus eight degrees even in our urban areas, so go to the net in the countryside. frost to start your day on friday. this new across central parts of scotland is likely to be quite disruptive, between five and 20 centimetres falling for many areas. driertowards 20 centimetres falling for many areas. drier towards the north of the mainland in scotland. much of the mainland in scotland. much of the uk having wintry sunshine, but temperatures dropping to get a few degrees above freezing. that line up