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is it worth being a city of culture? i ll be chatting to businesses all morning about how things have changed for them this year. good morning. in sport, liverpool net seven goals, making england the first country to have five teams through to the champion s league knockout stages in the same season. and carol has the weather. good morning. storm caroline will make its presence felt in the north of scotla nd make its presence felt in the north of scotland today. 90 miles per hour gusts. blizzards as well. a mild and a wet start to the day away from that. it will be noticeably windy. i will have more details in 15 minutes. thank you, carol. good morning. first, our main story: the number of patients experiencing long waits in accident and emergency departments in the uk has more than doubled in the last four years. research by the bbc found that more than three million people waited longer than the four hour target in the last year. doctors say it shows the nhs can no lo ....
latest headlines. patients are dying in corridors, that s the warning from more than 60 a&e doctors who have written an open letter to the prime minister. plastic free supermarket aisles and a5p plastic free supermarket aisles and a 5p bag charge extended to small shops, theresa may lays out her 25 year plan to improve the environment. rescuers desperately searching for eight people still missing in the california mudslides. i7 missing in the california mudslides. 17 are known to have died. a look at the market numbers. this is how london and frankfurt ended today, and across the atlantic in the us, this is how the dow and the nasdaq are getting on. let s get more now on the news that the heads of 68 accident and emergency units have written to theresa may warning of what they say are intolerable conditions, resulting in patients dying prematurely in hospital corridors. the letter says the nhs is chronically underfunded, while the plans, drawn up by the government to ....
good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. donald trump will meet the heads of the us intelligence services later today, after claims that russia interfered in the american presidential election. the heads of the cia, fbi and national intelligence all insist the kremlin ordered a cyber attack to help donald trump s campaign. but the president elect has made his doubts very public, in a series of comments on social media. last night, the outgoing vice president, joe biden, told mr trump to grow up , saying it was absolutely mindless not to have faith in america s intelligence agencies. daniel boettcher has the latest. us intelligence is convinced russia tried to influence the american election by hacking democratic party e mails. president elect donald trump has not only dismissed that, but set himself on a collision course with the intelligence agencies. their determination to show that they re right was made clear at a congressional committee hearing. the hacking was o ....
welcome to bbc news. donald trump will meet the heads of the us intelligence services later today, after claims that russia interfered in the american presidential election. the heads of the cia, fbi and national intelligence all insist the kremlin ordered a cyber attack to help donald trump s campaign. but the president elect has made his doubts very public, in a series of comments on social media. last night, the outgoing vice president, joe biden, told mr trump to grow up , saying it was absolutely mindless not to have faith in america s intelligence agencies. us intelligence is convinced russia tried to influence the american election by hacking democratic party e mails. president elect donald trump has not only dismissed that, but set himself on a collision course with the intelligence agencies. their determination to show that they re right was made clear at a congressional committee hearing. the hacking was only one part of it and it also entailed classical pr ....
welcome to bbc news. the nhs in england has denied claims from the british red cross that there s a humanitarian crisis in its hospitals. latest figures show a&e departments have had to shut their doors to patients more than 140 times in december, because of a lack of beds. the red cross, which helps patients return home from hospital, is calling for more government money. but nhs england say plans are in place to cope with additional demand and that talk of a humanitarian crisis is overblown. our health correspondent, smitha mundasad, reports. winter pressure on accident and emergency nothing new. but the red cross now says the strain on hospitals in england amounts to a humanitarian crisis. the charity claims social care cuts mean patients are being sent home without the right support so they end up back in a&e. red cross volunteers support nhs staff and say they ve seen patients sent home without clothes. some who don t receive the care they need to get washed. ....