Warnings of further heavy downpours to compound the misery of flood victims in parts of england. Floods, too, in venice the mayor blames Climate Change and says the city is on its knees. Raids across london to rescue women thought to have been trafficked from romania. And after his heroics in the world cup, england cricketer ben stokes tells us he still gets nervous when he relives it there are certain bits that you dont remember, you only sort of. You see for the first time. I was like, i didnt even know i did that. Even though i know what happened, its still nerve racking watching. Coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc news. England play their 1000th fixture tonight. A draw at wembley against montenegro would also see them qualify for the european championship. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Accident and emergency units in england have recorded their worst performance since current records began in 200a. One senior doctor has warned Emergency Care is imp
Also on the programme. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says trumps actions amount to bribery, escalating the stakes in the impeachment battle. Politics can be a ruff job. Luckily for staffers on capitol hill yesterday, some Furry Friends were on hand to help. Hello and welcome im Christian Fraser in london and Michelle Fleury is in new york. Health care is a major talking point in any election. And especially so here in the uk. The nhs is our most cherished institution. Funded by public money, free at the point of use but today it is a service under enormous pressure. New figures out today will make grim reading for government. In october one in six patients in england waited longer than the four hour target. In england waited longer nearly 4. 5 million are waiting for a routine operation. In the uk healthcare is a devolved issue scotland, wales and Northern Ireland are also missing their targets. All the parties are proposing in this campaign to increase the nhs budget. Were joined now by
An audacious attempt to steal two rembrandt paintings from a south london gallery believed to be worth more more than £100 million a stop in its tracks. And coming up is ita bird . Is it a plane . British inventor, richard browning, breaks his own record for fastest flight in a jet suit. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Accident and Emergency Departments in england have recorded their worst performance since current records began in 200a. One in six patients waited longer than the four hour target in october and the target for starting Cancer Treatment was missed for the 46th month in a row. The total number of people waiting for routine operations is now nearly 11. 5 million. The labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn described the figures as disgraceful, and blamed the problems on a lack of staff and funding. But the Prime Minister said they were a result of the huge demand, being placed on the National Health service. Heres our Health Editor hugh pym. That was when i thought, right, 0k, s
63 in San Francisco. We will climb to the 70s downtown today, and looking at numbers in the 90s inland. We are talking upper 90s by sunday afternoon. Details on the rest of the weekend and next week coming up. Thanks, lisa. Many of the democratic president ial candidates are making their way through San Francisco this weekend. They are here for the Democratic National Committee Summer conference. The dwindling pool of candidates is now down to 21. Abc 7 News Reporter liz kreutz spoke with some of the president ial hofuls. Friday night with president ial candidates. Can i show everybody . Yes, you can. Reporter kamala harris, cory booker, sttom steyer, andrew ya, some of the hopefuls seen maneuvering from caucus to caucus, making their pitch to Democratic National members. What do you need to win over voters . Work, work, work. We can afford to make public colleges and universities tuition free. Reporter in this warehouse, Bernie Sanders addressed supporters on college affordability. Ha
Paul our top stories this tuesday. To make axpected formal response to the growing unrest. Breaking news on the bloomberg terminal right now. Fromve correct accounts south korea for the month of june, and it is coming. 6. 376 billion dollars for the month of june. An improvement on the may figure of 4. 9 billion. You can see the korean won. It hit 1200 against the greenback yesterday. More consternation in korea. The hardest hit countries from this ever escalating trade war. You have to remember, these june figures do not count in the current spat with japan or the u. S. China trade war. That in mind, the figure of 6. 3 billion looks good. We will await the july figures. Shery investors have a lot on their plate today to digest. Ground, one losing point 5 after u. S. Equities lost more than 700 billion of market value just on this monday as we continue to see the trade war escalation between the u. S. And china. We saw the s p 500 lose 3 . Tech and financial leading the declines. It wa