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for medical reasons unlike his former team mate bradley wiggins. he s been speaking to our sports correspondent natalie pirks in monaco: olympic bronze and his third tour de france victory in four years. 2016 might have been a year to forget for some, but not for chris froome. but, whilst british cycling enjoys a golden age, off the road and track it is mired in controversy, with doping s blurred lines at the heart of it. a tue, or therapeutic use exemption, allows athletes to take a banned substance for genuine medical reasons. the issue is whether some have exploited the system for competitive gain. just the fact that we re having that debate about authenticity of tues, i think there s a problem with the system. i think wada, the anti doping authorities, need to tighten their regulations around tues, so that they re not something that we question. in those leaks by russian hackers, it was revealed that froome‘s former team mate sir bradley wiggins had received thr ....
pressure keeping things stagnant, wet weather sweeping through for all of us on monday, a dose of rain, low pressure to the north, strong winds, gales, potentially more severe in the far north west. we will keep you posted. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines: the british red cross has claimed there s a humanitarian crisis in nhs hospitals in england, and called on the government to allocate more money to improve social care. nhs england say plans are in place to deal with winter pressure police in the us state of florida have arrested a 26 year old american army veteran after five people were killed and eight injured in a shooting at fort lauderdale airport. wildfires in north america are increasing in size and becoming more destructive, according to us government statistics. scientists say a warming climate combined with a century of fire suppression by the people who settled the west, has produced the perfect conditions for so called mega fires. the cost of repa ....
the gunman who killed five people at fort lauderdale airport will be brought tojustice. a 26 year old army veteran has been arrested. at least 43 people have been killed by a lorry bomb in the northern syrian town of azaz. talks between london underground and the tssa union are continuing at the conciliation service acas. the rmt union have left the talks. a 24 hour strike is set to start on sunday evening. now on bbc news, the travel show. cuba is at a turning point. last year saw the end of decades of isolation from the usa, with tourism needing a new spirit of enterprise here. some sanctions have been lifted, like commercial flights from the us. the wheels are in motion, but everyone s wondering exactly where is cuba headed right now? that question is especially poignant after the recent death of fidel castro and election of donald trump to the us presidency. if the thawing of relations does continue, the economy here may benefit, but is this country in danger of los ....
councils fix two million potholes every year. that is about 12,000 for every local authority in england and wales. but it never seems to be enough. now, the councils claim the repair bill could soon reach £14 billion. hard pressed councils, who are mending, you know, a pothole every five seconds in this country, just cannot get to the core of the problem, which is actually many of our roads are just being patched now. they need to be fully repaired. the councils say the government must do more to help, and suggest increasing fuel duty by a couple of pence a litre, a figure they say the public would support. but it is notjust the cost of repairing all these potholes that seems to be on the increase. today s report also found that the time it is taking appears to be on the rise as well, going up from ten years in 2006 to m years today. last year, the government announced a £250 million pothole repairfund to help 100 councils fix 4 million potholes. but today s report by ....
cooler, but in the west we are into double figures. reasonably mild, but in the mid week we waved goodbye to the mild airand in the mid week we waved goodbye to the mild air and that opens the door for the blue colours to come from the arctic and that is colder arriving in the second half of this week. real change in the weather as week. real change in the weather as we have through wednesday onwards, after the mild and damp conditions, things are turning more wintry as we head towards the middle of the month. the queen has attended church after missing services over christmas due to a heavy cold. the professor says she will announce more plans about breakfast plans over the coming weeks. ilori has rammed into israeli soldiers in jerusalem killing four and injuring 15. police are treating the incident asa 15. police are treating the incident as a terror attack. the israeli ambassador in london has apologised after an embassy official was filmed saying he wanted to take ....