welcome to bbc news. an explosion on an underground train in south west london this morning is being treated as a terrorist attack. the train was packed with rush hour commuters when the blast went off. it sent a fireball through the carriage. 22 passengers were injured, none of them seriously. the device appears to have been in a white container with a timer. the mayor of london says a manhunt for the attacker is now underway. the device detonated at 820 this morning at parsons green station on the district line in south west london. my colleague matthew price is there. thank you very much indeed. the section of the london tube network on which this explosion took place is actually overground, not underground like much of the network. it is a couple of hundred metres behind me, down this road where, at the moment, police and forensic officers are going through the scene of the explosion to try and piece together what happened and what sort of device this was. we have already
hello. welcome to the programme, we re live until 11 this morning. do get in touch on all the stories we re talking about this morning use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today. the health secretary, jeremy hunt, says it s completely unacceptable that some patients are waiting up to 13 hours in a&e. in an exclusive bbc interview, he paid tribute to the hard work of staff, but said the problems of high demand were not unique to the nhs in england. our health editor hugh pym has more. nhs england figures this winter show the worst waiting time performance in a&e units since records began more than a decade ago. jeremy hunt paid tribute to the work of staff, but said that the problems of high patient demand were not unique to the nhs and all leading health systems were grappling with the same challenge. he said there was no silver bullet. i think it s wrong to suggest to people that these profound cha
tampon tax go to an anti abortion group? the group says it is providing essential housing support for women who decide to keep their babies, but the mp who champion the scheme says they should have to give the grand back, let us know what you think about that. our top story today, detectives investigating an attack on a teenage asylum seeker which left him seriously injured have released images of three people they want to question. the two men and a woman are being sought about the attack on the 17 year old boy at croydon in south london on friday night. anisa kadri is following the story for us. what is the latest? well, eight people are actually in kas today now, police are questioning them on suspicion of attempted murder, and as you mention, three images have been released this morning by police, people they want to speak to. police believe up to 20 people could have been involved. as for the victim, 17 years old, kurdish iranian, police are treating it as kurdish irania
london, essex, york and parts of surrey, derbyshire and cumbria will move from the medium to high alert level from saturday. the pub chain marston‘s is to cut more than two thousand jobs, saying it s been badly hit by the coronavirus restrictions. and, the queen carries out her first engagement outside a royal residence for 7 months. the mayor of greater manchester, andy burnham, has accused the government of setting parts of the north of england up to be the canaries in the coalmine for an experimental regional lockdown strategy. ministers want to move greater manchester and some other areas to england s highest covid alert level, which would involve the closure of pubs which don t serve meals, and different households banned from mixing, except in public outdoor spaces where the rule of six applies. across the country, twenty eight million people across england will be living under the two highest alert levels from this weekend with london, essex, parts of surrey and
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