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50,000 catholics In Singapore. An important moment for singapores catholic community. So we are monitoring the live shotin so we are monitoring the live shot In Singapore as the pope is greeted. You are watching bbc news. Next, the war in ukraine. Americas top diplomat, Antony Blinken, is in Poland Today following his trip to kyiv. These are the latest pictures of Mr Blinken arriving in warsaw. He is due to meet senior polish officials to discuss support for ukraine. The Secretary Of State said yesterday he will take back to washington the discussions he and his british counterpart have had with ukrainian officials about the use of long range western weapons for ....
# i m dreaming ofa # i m dreaming of a white christmas. we meet the members of the choir for people with dementia to find out how it s bringing relief and joy at the festive season. good morning. iam in i am in covent garden, where we will see a white christmas later on this morning. for most of us the forecast is a cloudy one with rain around, especially wales and central england, some brightness in the north, but even here later, some showery rain. details later in the programme. good morning. it s monday, the 18th of december. hamas officials say at least 90 palestinians have been killed in israeli air strikes on the jabalia refugee camp in gaza. it comes ahead of a vote by the un security council later today, calling for an urgent ceasefire in the territory. meanwhile, humanitarian aid has entered gaza directly from israel for the first time in more than two months, at the kerem shalm crossing. pictures released yesterday, showed aid vehicles entering through the city ....
what i have done is follow a process which is the right process. integrity is really important to me. the kremlin has dismissed as a lie a claim by a borisjohnson that he was threatened by vladimir putin, before the russian invasion of ukraine. and new research suggest uk bosses are reluctant to hire over 50s, preferring younger workers. in the last hour it is been announced that firefighters are across the uk have voted to go on strike. it will be there. walk out in 20 years following a dispute over pgy- in 20 years following a dispute over pay. thejoint in 20 years following a dispute over pay. the joint teachers, in 20 years following a dispute over pay. thejoint teachers, nurses, ambulance workers and taken industrial actions. the union has rejected a pay offer and they will give the government ten days to come up give the government ten days to come up with a better offer or the strikes will go ahead. we can speak with the general secretary of the fire brigade union, met ....
saying an improved pay offer could be enough to stop strikes, scheduled for monday and tuesday. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for how to heal the nhs. we ve been almost 12 hours in an ambulance. there were people sitting on the floor, people on trolleys everywhere. it was just horrendous. record waits in a&e, trolleys stacked up along busy corridors, ambulance crews forced to queue outside for hours with their patients. it does get tricky when you see a time come on the call and it s hours ago and you are thinking, oh, gosh, what are you going to turn up to? and they are in a bad state. the health service in every corner of the uk has been battling through its worst winter in a generation. we are running two and three times above our capacity continually, and often more than that. we ve had crises in the nhs before, but doctors say nothing like this. this is undoubtedly a crisis, and it s undoubtedly a national scandal. we simply haven t seen the action that w ....