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I am stephen sackur. Imagine you are a patient about to undergo Brain Surgery. If it goes well it could save your life, if it goes wrong you could end up paralysed or dead. Of course you want to believe your surgeon is infallible, a superhero, but he is not, he is all too human, just like you. And that simple truth emerges from the extraordinary honest writing of my guest today, one of britains leading Brain Surgeons, henry marsh. He has given us rare insight into the mind of the doctor. Is that...

Good morning, this is bbc news at 11. The Prime Minister is set to announce more training and resources for schools and companies in england to deal with what she calls the Hidden Injustice of Mental Illness. In a speech in Central London shortly, theresa may will order a review of Mental Health services and outline her plan to create a Shared Society. But her announcement has been called puny by some. Norman smith is outside the speech venue in Central London. An interesting and obviously very ...

What . Come on the tv show, the one i was telling you about. Congratulations, thats a credible i feel like i said negative stuff about it before. It is like Rebel Without a cause. I got the bullets hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until iiam. As youd expect, well bring you the latest Breaking News and developing stories. Stay tuned for some fascinating footage of chimpanzees which appears to show them developing tools to help them drink water. Its brilliant. That before 10am. If youre ...

The world cup from 32 to 48 teams. And the bafta nominations are out with the jazz musical la la land leading the way. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is that theres been a significant increase in the number of people with Mental Health problems asking to be seen at accident and Emergency Departments in englands hospitals. Figures from nhs digital, and analysed for the bbc, show that, in the year 2015 16, there were over 165,000 Psychiatric Attendances at A E Departments a rise of 47 over the past ...

Well hear from the people behind that decision at 9. 15. Really keen to hear from you this morning. Also on the programme. It isnt the care that people deserve. How two relatives have described their experience of the nhs. Roses son was treated on this makeshift bed. And grahams dad who has alzheimers was left for 36 hours waiting for a bed. The nurses were fantastic, brilliant. But i would say the main adjective i would use is worrying. You cant be treated with dignity and privacy in a corridor...

The babies who die before 2a weeks and their parents who are denied a birth certificate. Asa as a mother, you want to protect your children. And we could not. We had no choice. Good morning. You could be paying to get money out of thousands more Cash Machines if banks and Atm Operators fail to reach an agreement over fees. Ill be taking a look at why. In sport, its a happy birthday forJose Mourinho. Manchester united reach the league cup final, with an aggregate victory over hull, so theyll face...

The government. Tesco reaches an agreement to buy the whole siler booker in a deal worth £3] billion. It says it will create the uks leading food business. And this is a rare tropical turtle who has washed up rare tropical turtle who has washed up on rare tropical turtle who has washed upona rare tropical turtle who has washed up on a beach in wales. Good morning, it is friday, january 27. Theresa may is to become the first world leader to meet donald trump since he became us president. She tol...

We are just about to change the month and we also about to change the weather. Quite a variety at the moment. We will see very much more of this over the coming days. This is the scene in south wales. This the scene in the western side of scotland, what a contrast. Through the rest of the evening, the cloud and rain will push away and skies will stay clear in scotland. A widespread frost with freezing fog developing. Quite a contrast to the temperatures. The eastern side of scotla nd temperature...

The job of nato Secretary General isnt an easy one, this alliance is supposed to worked by consensus. And achieving that consensus just got a whole lot harder for my guest today, jens stoltenberg, natos chief. Why . The United States, natos dominant member, is now being led by President Trump, who has voiced grave doubts about natos future. So, will trumps assent hasten the demise of nato . Jens stoltenberg, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much. Would you agree the presidency of donald trump b...

And a dozen entities. Irans Foreign Minister responded, also on twitter, saying iran unmoved by threats as we derive security from our people. We will never initiate war, but we can only reply on our own means of defence. So how serious a moment is this . Im joined by our diplomatic editor. Is this a harbinger of much worse to come like a Handbrake Turn on iran policy . In a sense it is Unfinished Business from the last months of the obama administration, these missiles, over 1000 mile range, no...