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, something is not right. Donald who was 84 died after sliding off a hospital trolley. Hed been waiting six hours in a e. From 8. 15 up until the time he died, nobody came to see him, no pain relief was offered. His daughter, who is a former nurse, said he might still be alive if calls for help had been acted on. I can appreciate how busy nurses are, how busy a e can get. However, come 10 10. 30, when i was speaking to nurses and a doctor saying that my dad needs to be seen and i wasnt listened to, i was very angry. The hospital said it offered sincere sympathies to donalds family and was investigating the matter thoroughly. The nhs is under intense pressure as patient numbers rise year by year. In october 2014 there were just under 470,000 Emergency Hospital admissions but last month there were more than 560,000. Five years ago, around 105,000 had to wait more than four hours in a e. Last month, the figure was around 320,000 patients. Borisjohnson was challenged on the decline in performance of the nhs. This is basically caused by the huge demand that there is on the nhs and thats why now in the last three months we have done the biggest investment in the nhs in modern times. But other parties attacked the governments record. The worst performance ever in our a e departments. So many patients will be languishing on trolleys waiting longer and longer and longer for treatment and care in our overcrowded hospitals. This comes after a decade of cuts in our Health Services. I am appalled by these figures today, they are the worst figures on record. It is devastating for patients that need help and support and treatment. It is devastating for those people that work in our health service. In england, 83. 6 patients were treated or assessed in a e within four hours in october. For the rest of the uk, the latest figures are for september. In scotland the level was 89. 3 in that month. In wales, the number was lower at 75 . In northern ireland, just 59. 6 were treated or assessed in four hours in major a e units. There were similar pressures on Health Services across the uk. They are illustrated by the experience ofjill, aged 88, who has dementia. She was on a trolley in a e for six hours and a family so she experienced severe stress. It was bedlam. There were trolleys in the corridors, there were trolleys in doorways, they were bringing trolleys in, moving your trolley and pushing you further and further and further meaning you could fit in two more people, if they were moving a trolley they had to move trolleys out of the way to get trolleys by. Her family sayjill should never have been sent to a e because she was let down by local community care. The hospital has apologised but said a significant increase in the number of very poorly laid patients meant services were under considerable pressure. Hugh alderwick is the assistant director of strategy and policy at the health foundation, an independent charity committed to bringing about Better Health and health care for people in the uk. Hejoins me now. Think very much this evening. How have we gotten to this point, what are the factors that brought us here . Todays date highlights the major pressures facing us. As hugh said on his vt, we have the worst performance in a e, more people wait longerfor performance in a e, more people wait longer for treatment, performance in a e, more people wait longerfortreatment, more performance in a e, more people wait longer for treatment, more than 11. 5 million waiting this is a system creaking at the seams and it will be in here to buy a new government because in fact by decades of austerity and Major Staffing issues across and social care which are getting in the way of delivering a high quality service. Getting in the way of delivering a highquality service. With a look at funding. How adequate are they given the fact that the nhs could be a Bottomless Pit and will take all the money we are prepared to throw at it . The nhs is not a Bottomless Pit. Demand and Health Services growing because we have a growing population. Ageing with more complex conditions like diabetes, cancer. We are struggling to keep up with increases in demand, it is good to look at investment in the longer term picture. 0ver look at investment in the longer term picture. Over the last decade have seen they have been below the historic average of around 496. Below the historic average of around 4 . So we face challenges in funding but also notjust in nhs but we have seen underinvestment in adult social ca re seen underinvestment in Adult Social Care which is closely related. How much will be enough . Nhs is growing at around 4 on average historically. We think from our estimates 4 is needed, 4. 1 for the department of health and social cares budget. To be going to ban for services, and changing population needs and to improve quality in the health system. How have we gone to the point where show sort so short of the code was half we need . We have seen historic failures and workforce planning. At the moment we have 100,000 doctors, nurses and other staff missing from the health system. We have another 10,000 missing and social care. This is not just about training 10,000 missing and social care. This is notjust about training or spending our way out of this crisis. We have to find these people, that is including recruitment overseas, training more doctors and nurses, but also trying to make the nhs the best place to work in retaining staff. It would not be one thing to fix the crisis. It is a long standing persistent issue we face in the nhs. Given that we are an ageing population and with that comes a greater need for health care and social care, how overdue is a rethink about what we can really expect from the nhs . rethink about what we can really expect from the nhs . I think the area we need to rethink his Adult Social Care. The social care system is in need of fixing and it has been for more than a decade. Weve had cuts in services which mean fear people are able to access Adult Social Care services. Weve got social care services. Weve got social care services. Weve got social care providers of failing or at risk of collapse. The real issue is politicians have docked the need to reform the Adult Social Care system. In the short term we have to stabilise the system by investing in meeting demand for social care, boosting staff pay and also invest in improving access and more people get the care and support in their homes and care homes that they need. But any new government whoever it is is going to have to address the difficult question of how we fund aduu difficult question of how we fund Adult Social Care and that is going to need reform and increase investment. That is certainly going to be one of the main battle grounds for sure. No easy answers as you say. Hugh aldrich. Thank you for joining us. Brexit Party Leader Nigel farage has claimed his partys election candidates have been coerced into standing aside in some constituencies. Mr farage has also suggested some of his colleagues had been offered jobs by the conservatives in exchange. The Brexit Party Leader has been speaking ahead of a party rally in lincolnshire this evening. Lets hear a little more of what he had to say. Its been a very funny day. Weve had never before i think in the history of british politics, had people who want to stand for election. One of our rights as free citizens, been intimidated out of standing. But our candidates today have been subjected to thousands of phone calls, and e mails, and threats all over the country. I think were at about 285. Some have dropped away, most have held very firm. But also inducements. At all levels. I mean, number ten downing street ringing our candidates offering people jobs it is quite astonishing. So it is a tale of intimidation and, i think political corruption at the same time. Nigel farage. Lets hear from our Political Correspondent, helen catt. Some pretty strong accusations therefrom nigel farage. Absolutely extraordinary accusations arent they . But to give you the background and they . But to give you the background a nd co ntext they . But to give you the background and context of this, this is not in the context of nigel farage having stood down his candidates in conservative seats, seats the conservatives won in 2017 at the beginning of this week. 0riginally he said he would only do that if borisjohnson had he said he would only do that if Boris Johnson had decided he said he would only do that if borisjohnson had decided to drop his brexit deal or if the conservatives had agreed to stand down candidates and some seats against him. Neither of those things happen so this was a bit of a climb down by nigel farage earlier this week. He said he did for the good of the country not to split the leave vote. Should he still be standing candidates in seats where conservatives were a close second to whichever party one and 2017 because it is not enough for borisjohnson and the conservatives to win the same seats they won last time. To get a majority he needs to win more at them. There have been disagreement and certainly amongst some in the brexit party who have had pressure outside to not stand in some of those seats too. But the specific claims nigel farage is making, this ideas of inducements and jobs are quite externally. If they were to be proven could have a very, very severe consequences of the conservatives this evening absolutely denied this saying neither the conservative party nor its officials have offered Brexit Party Candidates jobs are peerages and that they do do electoral pacts. And that they do do electoral pacts. They then to say that the only way to ensure you get brexit done is to vote for your local conservative candidate. They are doubling down on their line. The press apartheid doubling down on their claims this evening. And at 4pm this afternoon was the deadline for parties to say who would swing to be standing for them. Yes, close of nominations and to disclose known in the jargon. Intense scrutiny this week about what people might be standing more so than in normal elections partly because of this idea of electoral pacts as we saw formal ones announced by the greens, plaid cymru, and the lib dems but perhaps in formal local agreements on the ground in some constituencies usually split along brexit or remaining lines. So we will now see if any of those have come to fruition. Or remain lines. That will probably take a couple of days because it is still organise locally. It is individual councils assembling that lists of nominated people and we will get those as they come out in the couple of days. Helen, thank you very much. Helen catt in westminster. Well be bringing you plenty more from the campaign trail after 8. 30. Stay with us for that. There are more than 100 flood warnings in place tonight as the met office warns that up to five centimetres of rain could fall in some parts of england and wales. In 0xfordshire, Emergency Services have rescued a number of people trapped in their cars. Parts of the east midlands have already been hit by heavy rain this afternoon. The flooding began almost a week ago with more than 800 homes affected since then. 0ur north of england correspondent Judith Moritz has spent the day in south yorkshire, one of the worst hit areas. The cavalry has arrived in fishlake bearing not arms but sandbags, the light dragoons going door to door shoring this village up against the threat of more flooding. These soldiers have been working flat out. And inside the old butchers cafe, the locals have been showing their gratitude, keeping the troops fed and watered. How valuable has it been having the support of the Community Like this, being welcomed in and being given a cup of tea . Well, thats almost the most important thing in a way because the community have been fantastic and they have got a really difficult set of circumstances. Its just amazing how supportive they are being to our guys when their livelihoods and lives have been turned upside down in the last week. Some streets have now been underwater for nearly a week. This house belongs to the howsam family. They tried to save their belongings. Today they were salvaging what they could, knowing they wont be living here again for many months. Luckily, everything is fine with insurance, so weve got somewhere to stay, thats fine. Its just a case of getting everything out the best we can, stuff that weve saved that weve got up in the air, and then just wait. Thats all we can do. Emergency crews have come here from all over the country, equipment bought from as far away as cornwall. Theyre pumping a tonne of water per second from the village into the river don, trying to keep ahead of the weather. We are worried about the rainfall that has just started here and its moving through the midlands, and the flood affected areas from last week. We need people to take action. The rain started again this afternoon, waterfalling on water. Its not thought that levels will rise as high as the weekend, but no one here will relax until the rain stops. Judith moritz, bbc news, fishlake. That was the picture in south yorkshire, but there are now more than 100 weather warnings in place across the country, and theres growing concern, with heavy rain expected overnight, and yellow weather warnings in place in many of the areas already affected by flooding. Weve been speaking to our correspondents in a number of the regions worst hit. There has been an incredible amount of rainfall in lincolnshire today. 0rdinarily that would not be a problem but the rivers and trains and dikes and streams are so saturated here they are in such capacity that it is causing problems. Behind me, you can see the foot plant foot pain. Flood plain. It broke over the weekend and floated about 100 acres of 1,000 acres. That but behind me is on a road, running through this community for sub you cant get anywhere very quickly unless you are using a boat. There is another one over there. It is marooned in the middle. A number of flood warnings are in place, about ten warnings in place for lincolnshire and nottinghamshire. About 23 foot awards but rivers are near record highs. Some of them have exceeded record highs. Surprisingly, weve only had a handful of properties flooded so far but if we get the predicted rainfall the met 0ffice get the predicted rainfall the met office is saying we are going to get in the next few hours, and tomorrow, all of that rain will be flowing into the various river catchments and we may well see some widespread flooding. Wood i am in the village here. Ive been talking to a number of people here saying their properties have been flooded. We have seen people bailing out water putting sand pacts out. This road is possible with help. People have been guiding cars there and theyre trying to clear the ditches because ofan trying to clear the ditches because of an awful lot of water has been running off the fields there the local school has been opened in case people need to seek refuge this evening and it has been a problem for many, many Rural Communities across this county but also across the whole of the west midlands. 100 schools have been close, there have been disruption on the rail, tracks, and also many roads closed. The scene from a left breath. The headlines on bbc news. New figures reveal accident and emergency waiting times in england are at their worst for 15 years. Victims of the floods across england are bracing themselves for more rain, with more than 100 flood warnings now in place. Two students have been killed and several injured after a fellow student opened fire in the grounds of a high school in california. Sport and a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. With katie. Hello. Hello. England are playing montenegro in euro 202 qualifying at wembley tonight, their 1000th match. They are currently for heavens are up. Before harry kane added a couple notes more. His tentacle in seven matches. Marcus rashford hasjust added a fourth and that is just half an hour gone. 15 minutes to half time. The video assitant referee was once again on the agenda, at a meeting for all 20 members of the premier league today. West ham co chairman, david gold, says that var is alive and kicking three months into the season. But this is different to who other view it as many have been unhappy with how its been used. The referees chief, mike riley, was present at whats been described as a fractious meeting. They agreed there would be no major changes. However the premier league will lead a consultation into how well var is working. We have had a very robust discussion. The message has got through to the league and the Referees Association that fans are unhappy and many other stakeholders in the game think weve got to do a whole lot better. And i expect to see real improvement the speed of decisions, consistency which is what everybody craves and i think above all else for those of us in as stadia, we want much better communication before, during, and after. And i think if we get those three ingredients, things are behold a pattern a few months time. Thierry henry is heading back into football management. Hes the new boss of mont