hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. we rejoined by the broadcaster and psychotherapist, lucy beresford. and joe twyman, director of the polling organisation, deltapoll. welcome to you both. let s take a quick look at tomorrow s front pages. the times says further coronavirus restrictions before christmas are unlikely but tougher measures are expected after. the telegraph calls it confusion at christmas as the cabinet blocks new coronavirus restrictions. the i says the prime minister and the chancellor blocked the introduction of restrictions before christmas. the ft says it was rishi sunak who lead the opposition for any more measures in england at today s marathon cabinet meeting. same story on the front page of the guardian it says the cabinet are split on new restrictions as covid cases rise in the uk. and the sun says hold on to your baubles warning the prime minister could bring in restrictions at any moment.
growing tensions between china and taiwan. beijing sends two dozen war planes into the taiwan air defense zone . thanks for joining us. the world health organization is taking stock of the covid-19 omicron variant and says the over all risk is very high. as the world races to understand and contain the new form of covid-19. u.s. president biden is set to speak later today about what the u.s. knows about the variant. remarks come as u.s. travel restrictions take effect on south africa where the variant was first detected and several neighboring countries. medical experts say if it isn t already in the u.s., it probably will be soon. australia and canada reported cases on sunday. and there are a number of infections in europe. g 7 health ministers meet in the coming hours on omicron. after this warning from the european commission president. we are now in a race against time. why that, because we know not all about this variant. but it is a variant of concern. and the scien
nation s justice system. deadly flooding in the pacific northwest. what this could mean for holiday travel and in europe, a surge of covid cases have officials worried it could still get worse. wednesday, november 17. right now two high-profile cases are gripping the united states highlighting race, guns and legal trials. in brunswick, georgia. arguing that mcmichael s shot arbery. he was accompanied by two others in this case. americans are awaiting a verdict in the kyle rittenhouse trial. his lawyers argue he shot three in self-defense amid racial justice protest in kenosha, wisconsin last year. prosecution say rittenhouse instigated the shootings. after close to nine hours on day one. still no verdict. early in the day, they requested more copies. that is significant because those pages deal with crucial concepts like self-defense and provocation and the concept of intent along with the charges connected to the killing of joseph rosebaum. later in the day, the jury req
last post plays. buckingham palace confirmed the queen will be at the cenotaph on sunday as the nation falls silent to mark armistice day. and the man who spent lockdown sorting out an old box of dinosaur bones and discovered a new species. and coming up on the bbc news channel, aston villa announce steven gerrard as their new manager. the former liverpool captain leaves rangers after guiding them to their first league title in a decade. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. almost six million people are now waiting for routine hospital treatment in england the highest level since records began. the head of the nhs confederation has warned that unprecedented demand could compromise patient safety with the ambulance service in particular coming under extreme pressure. 5.83 million people in england are now waiting to start treatment on the nhs, the highest number since records began nearly 15 years ago. the ambulance service is under its highest state of alert.
armisitice day. today we have closed the book on apartheid. south africa s former president f.w. de klerk the last white man to lead the country has died at the age of 85. and the man who spent lockdown sorting out an old box of dinosaur bones and discovered a new species. almost 6 million people are now waiting for routine hospital treatment in england, the highest level since records began. the head of the nhs confederation has warned that unprecedented demand could compromise patient safety, with the ambulance service in particular coming under extreme pressure. 5.83 million in england are now waiting to start treatment in the nhs, the highest number since records began nearly 15 years ago. the ambulance service is under its highest state of alert. latest figures show the average response time for urgent calls, like heart attacks and strokes, is nearly 5a minutes. the target is 18 minutes. last month, more than a million 999 calls were answered in england, a record number.