The Australian Open, as he continues to struggle with a long term hip problem. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Theres even more evidence today of the mounting pressure on the nhs in england this winter. New figures compiled by the bbc show that for the last six weeks of 2017, more than 75,000 patients were left in ambulances for 30 minutes or more. Thats one in every eight patients enduring a delay. And last week was the busiest ever for the nhs iii helpline. It received more than 480,000 calls. Today, theresa may apologised for the thousands of operations that have already been cancelled. 0ur health editor, hugh pym, reports on the nhs winter crisis. Erm, but were in a queue with lots of other people, who are clearly very sick. Everybodys waiting to get in. A patients eye view of the stress across the nhs. A queue of ambulances waiting to hand over patients at a hospital. There were eeeele en the fleer ; most of them were elderly. There was an elderly lady that i reme
Pulled out of the Australian Open because of this long term hip problem. He is contemplating surgery now. What effect could it have on his future career . We will talk to you later. In the weather, darren, its been wet and windy and now its going to get cold. Yeah, we are going to get cold. Yeah, we are going to get cold. Yeah, we are going to look at the extreme weather we have been seeing in north america in the next hour. Here at home we are going to replace the cloudy wet and windy weather with something much colder as the weekend goes on. More later on. Thank you very much. Also coming up. The real italian job, a multiMillion Pound heist at the doges palace in venice. Thieves made off with several treasures owned by a member of the qatari royal family. Hello, this is afternoon live. I am simon mccoy. No change for five years thats the message to britains farmers many of whom were getting increasingly worried about what brexit will mean for them. The environment secretary michael g
We take a look at which campaign pledges President Trump has kept and which he has not, at least so far. Chinas lenovo gives up the crown as the worlds biggest pc maker after some very disappointing results. Welcome to World Business report. Im ben bland. In a minute well also investigate the Environmental Impact of the cruise industry. But first, he came into the white house with a pro business agenda. But events this week have caused the Business Community in america to isolate donald trump. And after over 200 days in office, donald trump has yet to achieve his first legislative change. Analysts have warned that his response to the violence in charlottesville will hurt republicans prospects for progress on domestic policy. So the big question is can the president deliver on his Campaign Promises . He has had mild success. In january, trump formally scrapped tpp a flagship trade deal with 11 asia pacific countries blaming the deal for job losses in the us. He also promised hed withdra
In iraq in 2005. A call to cut calories in pizzas, burgers and ready meals as the government tries to tackle child obesity in england. In sport, england shine under the test match lights. Centuries forjoe root and Alastair Cook put england in control of the first day night test against west indies. And matt has the weather. Good morning. Iam good morning. I am alongside i2 yachts which will start a 40,000 miles round the world trip and race on sunday. It is run by amateurs. I have the weather details and more on that. The day contained sunshine, showers and a fairly blustery wind. See you in 15 minutes. Good morning. Our main is those events in spain where overnight five suspected terrorists were shot dead by police in the costal town of cambrils. Police say the men, who were wearing explosive belts, are linked to the attack in barcelona yesterday afternoon 13 people were killed there when a van was driven into crowds in a popular tourist area called las ramblas. More than a 100 others
Billion at the recent summit to develop a vaccine. And im very proud the work that dfid is doing. Yes, of course, we will make sure that we guarantee the dfid budget, but what will happen within your department. What will happen now is that every single person, working in that every single person, working in that department in the new whitehall Super Department, the foreign and commonwealth and the Development Office, every person in that department will now have all the idealism and a sense of mission that comes from dfid, but also the understanding of the need to project uk values, uk policies and uk interests overseas. This is a long overdue reform and he should support it. I would like to associate myself with the comments the Prime Minister made regarding jo cox and our colleague from east dunbartonshire. I very much welcome the Prime Ministers Statement Today. Can he confirm this is a merger, not a ta keover confirm this is a merger, not a takeover and actually this has the poten