In last junes vote. Second, the decision to press ahead with the single currency. At the time, sceptics warned that only five or six nations really met the strict membership criteria but, eventually, 15 were admitted. Too many, too dissimilar, too fast. So when the financial crisis crashed into europe, many in the south Saw Stagnation and despair. Youth unemployment created a generation shut out of europes bright early promise. Its little surprise that theres a rise in desire to go back to the perceived certainties of national sovereignty. The disintegration of europe is already happening. Hey, brexit has occurred. Its very hard to see europe returning to those values it was founded for. You know peace, democracy, social cohesion and prosperity, but you need to find a way for these things to work in practice. If it doesnt, we simply have to reflect whats going on. Many on the continent have said it often and this evening its never been clearer britain is different. Always the reluctant
In bosnia by the teenager kerim ahmetspahic. Hes a 16 year old taekwondo champion who broke iii concrete blocks with his head injust 35 seconds to make it into the into the guinness book of world records. The Blackbelt Somersaulting Over 16 piles as he smashes them in half and not a hair out of place. I think it goes without saying do not try this at home, or even just do not try this that is all, coming up in a moment it is the papers. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are lucy fisher, senior Political Correspondent at the times newspaper, and the former labour adviser ayesha hazarika. The bloke banging his head on the concrete, welcome to brexit. Tomorrows front pages, starting with the i newspaper leads with tomorrows triggering of article 50, allowing the uk two years to negotiate the terms of the eu exit. The Daily Express refers to the Prime Ministers letter formally notifying the eu about the uks departure from the e
Are into the last four of the Champions League. Lucy bronze scores to book citys place in the semi finals after a 2 0 Aggregate Win over danish side Fortuna Hjorring. After the most challenging Railway Repair ever, today the Settle Carlisle train line reopens to customers. And matt has the weather. Good morning. Grey skies and rain might greet the day for many of you but things will brighten up quite nicely i have details coming up and a full weekend broadcast. Good morning. First, our main story. Patients will have to wait longer for routine operations, such as hip and knee replacements, as a trade off so improvements can be made in other areas, like a e. Thats according to the head of nhs england, simon stevens, who is today setting out a new strategy for the next two years. Alexandra mackenzie has more. How have you been feeling . Not too bad, thank you. Iris ram is 96 and is recovering from a recent illness. Youre doing really well. Her gp called a local nhs Service Based in nottin
Were live until am this morning. Are you waiting for a non urgent operation . If so, wed love to hear from you this morning about how long youve been waiting. Are you one of the many people whove arrived at hospital only to have your operation cancelled on the day . Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. We are going to go and live now to hear from donald we are going to go and live now to hearfrom donald tusk, the president of the European Council. You can see the podium there, he is waiting to speak in malta in the next few minutes, he will of course be talking about those brexit negotiations, so we will go back to that live as soon as it happens, you wont miss anything at all. Our top Story Today Patients will have to wait longer for routine operations, such as hip and knee replacements as a trade off, so that improvements can be made in other areas like a e. That
Some cloud in the west, we will see some patchy rain by the end of the night. Captures will be eight or nine celsius, but across the heart of the uk it will be going to five oi of the uk it will be going to five or six celsius, the countryside going lower than that. Workload, breeze and patchy rain for Northern Ireland and western scotland, reaching the western part of wheels in the afternoon. But a decent day for most, 15 or 16 celsius in the southeastern corner. For many places it will be dry and bright. This is bbc news, the headlines more than 250 people have been killed, many more are missing, after mudslides in colombia. The president has declared a State Of Emergency in the region. Six arrests are made by Police Investigating an alleged Hate Crime Attack on a 17 year old kurdish iranian Asylum Seeker in south london. The writer, broadcaster and Civil Liberties campaigner, darcus howe, has died at the age of 7a. He was most well known for organising the 20,000 strong black people