pretended to be shot. our current wait time for a doctor, seven and a half hours. telling it like it is the reality for patients at an essex a&e department and a new report that calls for better nhs leadership to tackle its problems. the commonwealth games in birmingham, the showcase sporting event of the summer, but organisers are still trying to recruit thousands of workers. and coming up on the bbc news channel. wales are back in action after the high of reaching a first world cup in 64 years. they take on netherlands in the nations league tonight. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. it s the prefect travel storm. the next few weeks are likely to see anyone on the move facing misery whether they re on the roads, planning a railwayjourney, or hoping to get away by air. the price of petrol saw its biggest dailyjump in 17 years yesterday straining family budgets even more than they are already. on the railways the rmt union is planning a walk out of thousands o
Hello, im rajini vaidyanathan. We start here in the uk. Defence secretary grant shapps said it would be irresponsible to carry on Pumping Money into the h52 high speed rail line if costs had spiralled and there was a perfectly legitimate question about its sequencing. Mr shapps, the uks former transport secretary, told the bbc s Victoria Derbyshire that costs had increased significantly, citing inflation as having been part of that. He stressed that hs2 was not the be all and end all for northern transport projects. On hsz, we do have to respond to the budgets on hsz, we do have to respond to the budgets that have been hit not only by coronavirus but by the war in ukraine by coronavirus but by the war in Ukraine I By Coronavirus but by the war in ukraine. Ithink by coronavirus but by the war in ukraine. I think any responsible government looks at that and says, does this government looks at that and says, does this still stuck up for what the country requires in terms of where the coun
Hello. A warm welcome. The fate of Ethnic Armenians in disputed Nagorno Karabakh is hanging in the balance, as their leaders say most will likely leave their historic homeland now controlled by azerbaijan. The region is internationally recognised as part of azerbaijan, but large parts of it have been controlled by Ethnic Armenians for three decades. Tens of thousands of armenians have sought refuge in the main city, stepanakert, many of them gathering at the airport. Some aid has reached the enclave, but food, medicine and fuel are all in short supply. In new york, azerbaijans Foreign Minister told the Un General Assembly that baku was determined to reintegrate Karabakh Armenians as equal citizens. But his armenian counterpart demanded the un establish a mission in the region to prevent further killings of Ethnic Armenians. The bbc s olga ivshina is one of the first journalists to have reached the region since this weeks hostilities began. She sent us this report. This is the first tim
what he said yesterday, joe biden. the president is talking about getting tough with tripling the tariffs on chinese goods coming into this country. well, if you live in pennsylvania, not in philadelphia or pittsburgh, if you re out in the state, 67 counties out there where people don t make much money, you re thinking, well, vote republican? i ll vote democrat again because they have to be good to the working man. they have to be tough on trade. it doesn t sound good with the big-time thinking, but to the average worker in pennsylvania, and to his wife or if they re both working, they want to keep their kids near home. one way to do that is fight china. take on china on trade. if china is taking all our jobs in steel and other places, and they are, you have to do something about it. you have to act tough. trump has gone up in pennsylvania and goes to erie and promised that he was going to get tough on china.
good. it doesn t sound good to the uninitiated, anderson, but you remember, you and i talked about this multiple times dating back to the march/april time frame where i suspected when you re talking about a force that s going on the offensive for the first time with a very large conventional force, with new weapons, with soldiers who have been reconstituted, and we re talking about ukraine now, with tactics they haven t used before, they haven t completely transformed the military, against the kinds of things that russia has put in place over an eight-month period of time, remember, russia started mining and setting trenches starting back in october of last year. so they had about eight or nine months to set the defensive conditions. and it s just very difficult. so what you have right now is a ukrainian unit, an offensive,