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Tonight at Ten:

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New evidence of the intense

pressure on the NHS,

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as winter takes its toll.

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Ambulances wait in line

outside hospitals, unable

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to deliver patients,

because there's no

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spare capacity inside.

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At the moment, we have no rooms in

the A&E so these patients are just

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waiting for beds.

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We spent four days filming

in A&E at a hospital

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in the North-East of England -

one that has some of

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the best waiting times.

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They're marvellous, these two men.

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They've never left me.

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I know.

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I'm in agony.

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Staff at North Tees say they're

doing the best they can,

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but they can't cope with the numbers

coming for help.

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There's not the capacity.

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We don't have the capacity to safely

look after the amount of patients

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that are coming through the door.

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We'll have an extended

report from North Tees,

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where the problems are similar

to those in many other areas.

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Also tonight:

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A court is told that a man who drove

into a crowd of Muslims in London

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last year was trying to kill as many

people as possible.

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A report from Syria,

where the people of Eastern Ghouta

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have suffered more bombardment,

as the UN meets again

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to discuss what to do.

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Henry Bolton refuses to step

down as Ukip leader,

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despite the resignations of 12

senior members of the party.

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And Alexis Sanchez has

completed his move to

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Manchester United from Arsenal.

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He's likely to be the highest paid

player in the Premier League.

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And coming up in

Sportsday, on BBC News:

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Could Liverpool come

from behind at Swansea to keep

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up their tilt on a place

in the Premier League's top four?

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Good evening.

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And we start with stark new evidence

of the intense strain

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on hospitals across the UK,

as the NHS struggles

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to deal with the pressure

of the winter months.

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Medical staff at the University

Hospital of North Tees,

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in the North-East of England,

say they don't have the capacity

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to give proper care to all incoming

patients, and the Trust says

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pressures are 'immense'.

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A BBC News team spent several

days at the hospital,

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witnessing the problems at first

hand - as our special

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correspondent, Ed Thomas,

explains in this extended report.

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Inside the NHS.

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For the first time this winter,

we have been given full

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access to a hospital.

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I have worked for the trust for 19

years, I have never known it to be

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as bad as it is now.

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Over a weekend,

we spoke to patients.

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It's supposed to be the best

country in the world.

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We are nowhere near the best

country in the world.

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Progressively getting worse.

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Definitely.

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I met staff, facing

unprecedented pressure.

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We have no rooms in the A&E

department, so these

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patients are waiting

here for the next available bed.

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How do you describe the NHS?

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It just feels like a disaster zone.

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It's just completely under strain,

bursting at the seams.

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What is it like being

on the corridor?

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I think it's a disgrace.

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The University Hospital

of North Tees.

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It has some of the best A&E

waiting times in England,

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but was so full at one point this

month, it had to close its doors.

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It's Friday and we are in

the Rapid Assessment Unit.

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I'll do this one.

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It used to be the hospital's gym.

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It is always hot, it is

because the windows are at the top.

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It is like stepping

off a plane abroad.

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That's what it's like,

the heat just hits you.

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Are you comfortable there?

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Patients with less severe symptoms

can be sent here instead of A&E.

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Dawn has worked here

for nearly 20 years -

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this has been her busiest winter

yet.

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It's exhausting mentally

and physically, trying to keep up

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with everything we need to do

in the short space of time

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we have to do it in.

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It can be hard and tiring,

but I do love my job.

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We'll get you there.

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Some patients spent

up to six hours here.

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Average waiting times

are not included in

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the hospital's A&E figures.

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How many trolleys

have you got in here?

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12.

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How many patients?

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18.

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How many more to come in?

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Nine.

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Another nine to come in.

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About two hours before

you get your results.

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They don't have the time to look

after patients and do their own

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jobs and everything.

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It's terrible.

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The nurses get really

upset, don't they?

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They really do get upset.

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I think the nurses deserve better.

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The nurses couldn't do any more.

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We need a proper area

for rapid assessment.

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If the patients weren't here,

where would they be?

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Sat in A&E.

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On Saturday, A&E is filling up.

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The Rapid Assessment Unit

in the gym is closed.

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Lady out of 12 is going into nine.

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And Leanne, the nurse

in charge, must find space.

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Just more patients coming

through the door, more elderly

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patients, more poorly patients.

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What are your concerns?

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There's not the capacity,

we don't have the capacity to safely

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look after the amount of patients

coming through the door.

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By 4:00, ambulances

are backing up outside A&E.

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Inside, paramedics wait

with their patients.

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She's looking after me lovely.

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I'm doing well.

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I'm in pain, but I'm coping.

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Blanche is 83.

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And she is struggling to breathe.

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They're marvellous, these two men.

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They've never left me.

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I know.

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I'm in agony.

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She's in a lot of

discomfort and pain.

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Being in the corridor is not

where she needs to be.

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We have given her what we can

in terms of pain relief.

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What does she need?

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She needs to be seen by a doctor.

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That's it.

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Paramedics told us they waited

with Blanche for an hour.

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When you see that lady down

there for an hour...

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It's awful.

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We don't like it.

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Nobody likes the patients

to be in the corridor,

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but I physically have no room to put

this lady in.

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I have been down and apologised,

but there is no physical bed

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to transfer this lady into.

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Across the NHS, emergency admissions

are at record levels.

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You are doing fantastic.

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What do these mean to you?

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They are amazing.

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Tenfold, they are amazing.

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Many hospitals are also facing

a major flu outbreak.

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What has this place meant to you?

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She wouldn't be here.

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She said herself she thinks

she would be dead if it hadn't

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been for these doctors.

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Here, it means by Sunday, every bed

on every medical ward is full.

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We're trying to move

patients from Orthopaedics

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to create some capacity.

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It's Denise's job to find beds.

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Hello, Denise speaking.

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Site coordinator.

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To keep patients moving

through the hospital.

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We can always want more

beds and more staff,

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but you can't go on forever just

using more beds and staff,

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we have to look at the other reasons

they come into hospital as well,

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and is there any other

resources we can use?

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Patients that are in

trolleys in corridors

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are very rare within the Trust.

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My concern is that the year-on-year

increase in the acuity of patients

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and number coming to A&E

is not sustainable.

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We need to transform our care.

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From Friday to Sunday,

the hospital failed to meet its A&E

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four-hour waiting target.

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I'm going to check the floor.

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They averaged 85% -

well below the 95% target.

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We are losing a lot of experienced

staff, because they are

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becoming burned out.

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They are realising they can't

keep going like this.

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Just discharge him,

but when you discharge...

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It's been nonstop.

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We've had that many

people through today.

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We haven't been able

to give them a drink.

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How does that make you feel?

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Frustrated and sad, I would say.

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Can you go on doing this?

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No.

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Not just me personally.

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I don't think any of us can.

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You have had a few more

years than me and I think

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I've got less to give.

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How long do you think

you can stick it out for?

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At this moment in time,

I've probably got

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about five years left, tops.

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So far, my career has

been four years long.

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I wouldn't say I would do

a long career in the NHS.

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Step back before you sit down.

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With our ageing population,

more patients with complex acute

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conditions, more nurses leaving

than joining in England last year,

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many want to know how the NHS

can continue to cope.

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Come this time next year,

this will happen again and again

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and again and again.

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And we will see all these

pictures in the news,

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and the horrendous trolley waits,

and it doesn't seem to change.

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I don't understand what you need to

make things better.

Lots of

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questions raised.

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In a moment, We'll have a word

with our health editor, Hugh Pym,

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at the Department of Health

and Social Care.

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But first, let's talk to Ed Thomas,

whose report we've just seen.

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Staff remarkably candid about the

immense challenges they are facing.

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What the impressions you took away?

Yes, that is right, it was

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incredibly difficult to get into

that hospital to tell that story.

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But once we did, we were struck by

how open and frank and honest

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nurses, consultants, health

consultants were, they wanted to

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tell their story. The stories you

just heard tonight, they were just a

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snapshot of a particular moment

inside the hospital. They were

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representative of our time there.

People who are tired and frustrated.

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And importantly, the pictures you

have just been watching, the

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ambulances outside A&E, the patients

queueing up in the corridors, they

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match what clinicians have told us

up and down the country this winter.

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But the one thing to take away from

all of this was how incredibly hard

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the nurses and doctors were working

inside that hospital to keep

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patients safe, despite winter

pressures.

Many thanks once again.

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Straight to Whitehall and the

Department of help. The Prime

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Minister has already acknowledged

the immense challenges in the NHS.

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Tubing more evidence like this is

likely to bring a change, a change

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of approach or policy?

The official

line tonight is that the Government

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did put more money into the NHS in

England over two years in the budget

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is more for this winter's pressure

but nobody here is denying the

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images we saw maybe typical of

hospitals around the country. A&E

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units and a real strain,

difficulties finding beds and start

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feeling the pressure. It will add

momentum to a debate around

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Whitehall about the long-term

funding needs of the NHS. Jeremy

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Hunt, the Secretary of State, has

already called for a 10-year funding

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plan. His department is under

pressure on another front tonight,

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but the calculation of A&E

statistics for the key four our

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waiting time benchmark. The BBC has

become aware is smaller but of

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trusts, possibly more, have been

adding data from minor injuries set

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at centres run by other providers

into their data to perhaps make

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their performance look better and

the Watchdog react into that has

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called for explanations from NHS

leaders. Labour is putting pressure

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on the Government to provide answers

as well. And embarrassingly for

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everyone in government and the NHS,

it could well be that the biggest in

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NHS in England at hospitals going

back over a year or more may have to

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be recalculated.

Many thanks once

again.

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The trial has started of a man

accused of driving a van

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into a group of Muslim worshippers

outside a mosque in North London.

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Darren Osborne, who's 48,

denies the murder of Makram Ali,

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and attempting to kill nine others.

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The prosecution says he was trying

to kill as many people as possible,

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in an act of terrorism -

as our home affairs correspondent,

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Daniel Sandford, reports.

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The pandemonium on a summer night

in North London after a large box

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van smashed into a crowd

of worshippers at speed, leaving

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them strewn across the pavement,

some with life-changing injuries.

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And leaving 51-year-old

Makram Ali dead.

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Today, his family were at

Woolwich Crown Court to watch

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as 48-year-old Darren Osborne,

from Cardiff, went on trial.

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Jonathan Rees QC for the prosecution

said Osborne had deliberately driven

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into a group of Muslims,

trying to kill as many as possible.

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The prosecution say Darren Osborne

became enraged after a BBC drama

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about sexual abuse by Pakistani men

in Rochdale, and by the attacks

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on London and Manchester.

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His partner said he was a ticking

time bomb who followed

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on Twitter Tommy Robinson,

the founder of the

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far-right group the EDL.

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The day before the attack,

he hired a large van.

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That Saturday evening,

Darren Osborne came

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here to his local pub,

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the Hollybush, and the prosecution

say that witnesses remember him

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writing on a piece of paper,

and then becoming increasingly loud

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and abusive about Muslims.

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The prosecution say that

after the attack, a misspelled note

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was found in the cab of the van

Osborne hired.

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Part of it reads...

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The prosecution say that this

pro-Palestinian march may have been

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Darren Osborne's original target,

but when that didn't prove

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viable, he instead started

looking for mosques.

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Their case is that it was an act

of terrorism designed to intimidate

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the Muslim community.

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Daniel Sandford, BBC News.

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The head of the Army -

General Sir Nick Carter -

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has warned that the armed forces

might struggle to respond to future

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threats, without further investment.

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Speaking this evening,

he highlighted Russia,

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which he said posed the most complex

threat to the UK from another state

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since the end of the Cold War.

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Sir Nick also underlined the threat

to the UK from cyber attacks,

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as our defence correspondent,

Jonathan Beale, reports.

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Russia is building an increasingly

modern and aggressive military.

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Already tested in battle in Syria,

using weapons Britain

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would struggle to match,

like long-range missiles.

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In Ukraine they have been

using unconventional

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warfare, electronics,

cyber and misinformation.

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And they are even on manoeuvres

on Europe's doorstep,

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with large-scale exercises

near Nato's borders.

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Enough to worry the head

of the British Army,

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who tonight gave this

rare public warning.

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I believe our ability to pre-empt

or respond to these threats will be

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eroded if we don't match up

to them now.

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They represent a clear

and present danger.

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They are not thousands

of miles away.

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They are now on Europe's doorstep.

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The UK is already seriously

outnumbered - Russia has

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more than 2500 tanks,

among them the most

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advanced in the world.

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In contrast, Britain has fewer

than 300 and the UK's Challenger

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tank, here on an exercise,

is now over 20 years old.

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This intervention by the head

of the Army is as much an appeal

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for more money for defence

as it is a warning about

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the threat posed by Russia.

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Over the next ten years,

the Ministry of Defence needs

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an extra £20 billion to modernise

the Armed Forces and without that

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money, they could face another

round of brutal cuts.

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So how does Britain's

defence spending compare?

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Last year its budget

was £35 billion.

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While Russia's was £44 billion.

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But the UK is still part of a Nato

alliance who together spent

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£657 billion, including a US defence

budget of £443 billion.

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This is not only about Russia,

it is also about our European allies

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and the United States.

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We need to show to our Nato allies

that we are taking Russia seriously

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and that we intend to maintain

ourselves as a serious

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military power.

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The Defence Secretary has

sent his top brass into battle

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to persuade the Chancellor

to give him more money,

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but they are competing with other

demands and other departments

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and defence may not be

the top of the list.

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Jonathan Beale, BBC News.

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For five years, the Syrian suburb

of Eastern Ghouta has been

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the target of endless attacks

by President Assad's forces,

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and some 400,000 people in the area

are now suffering what the UN says

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is a humanitarian crisis.

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Eastern Ghouta is one of several

'de-escalation' zones in Syria,

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formed as part of an attempted truce

between government forces -

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backed by Russia -

and Syrian rebels.

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Despite that, the bombardment

continues, and the UN

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Security Council is meeting tonight

to address the situation,

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as our correspondent,

Nawal Al-Maghafi, reports.

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Eastern Ghouta is

a suburb under siege.

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Airstrikes have become

a daily occurrence here.

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Racing from emergency to emergency,

there seems to be no

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end to the violence.

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And when half of the population that

lives here are children,

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it's them who suffer the most.

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Mahamoud, just three years old,

survived the attack unhurt.

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His brother was lost in the rubble.

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Altogether, eight civilians

were pulled out of the

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remains of their homes.

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They survived this attack,

but they can't escape the siege.

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Surrounded for the past five years,

the UN has recently described

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Eastern Ghouta as the epicentre

of suffering in Syria.

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For almost 400,000 people,

that means daily misery,

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with little food, winter

temperatures, and heavy bombardment.

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Once the dust settles,

the children are sent out

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to search for firewood.

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This woman has lost one child

to this war, and she's

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struggling to feed the others.

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Eastern Ghouta might be 20 minutes'

drive from Damascus,

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but food is 15 times more expensive

than the capital.

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TRANSLATION:

I have six children.

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How am I meant to feed them?

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I can't even afford

to buy them bread.

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All they have is a mouthful each.

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They never get full.

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Have mercy on us!

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In an attempt to escape

the shelling, Abu Brahim has made

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this abandoned building his home.

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With no windows, he's chosen to face

the cold than the bombs.

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His two boys exposed

to the chill of winter.

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TRANSLATION:

When it comes to food,

we can't afford to buy that much.

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We eat day by day.

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We can't afford to buy wood,

so we burn whatever we can find.

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I burnt most of my belongings

that I took with me

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when we were displaced.

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No aid has been allowed

into the area since November.

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Without vital supplies,

tens of thousands of children face

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the threat of malnutrition.

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As the attacks continue,

the Syrian and Russian governments

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say their forces only attack

Islamist rebels in the area.

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For many children here, they've been

born into this brutal siege,

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and if something isn't done soon,

it's all they will

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ever come to know.

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Nawal Al-Maghafi, BBC News.

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In a new front in the Syrian

conflict, Turkey has

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intensified its military

offensive against Kurdish forces

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in northern Syria,

despite the negative diplomatic

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reaction around the world,

including the US Government.

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The Turkish Government says

that the operation will continue

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until every terrorist

is "cleansed from the region".

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Our correspondent,

Mark Lowen, is in Hatay,

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on Turkey's border with Syria.

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Despite the criticism I mentioned,

is there any sign that Turkey will

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change the kind of operation it is

mounting?

Absolutely no sign at all,

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it is ploughing ahead despite this

pretty dreadful weather. Turkey is

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that the first Turkish soldier has

been killed in the clashes. Kurdish

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activists say around 20 civilians

have been killed by Turkish as

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strikes although the Turkish

government says that is nonsense

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propaganda. The risk is growing for

those living in the border regions

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in southern Turkey. We went to a

town close to here which saw an

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incoming rocket blamed on the

Kurdish militia in Syria, we saw

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shattered glass on the ground and

mangled corrugated iron and I spoke

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to be some are they Syrian refugee

killed in that rocket strike, as he

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drove with the coffin of his father

towards the Syrian border he said,

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"We have escaped the terror of the

Assad regime in Zim yet only to be

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met by the terror of the Kurdish

militants." -- in Syria. President

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Erdogan, when questioned by the US

about the length of the operation,

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said it was not a maths equation,

how long have you been in Iraq and

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Afghanistan? The only approval he is

interested in is the 50.1% of the

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voters he will need here to be

re-elected next year.

Thank you for

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the latest from Hatay.

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The leader of Ukip, Henry Bolton,

is resisting the growing

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calls for his resignation

following a controversy

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about racist comments made

by his former girlfriend.

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No fewer than 14 party spokesmen

and women have now resigned,

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calling on Mr Bolton to step down,

but he's insisted he'll put

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an end to what he calls

"factional infighting".

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Live to Westminster

for the latest with our political

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correspondent, Leila Nathoo.

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To those in his party who want him

to walk away, fighting talk from a

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leader determined to stay where he

is.

I will not be resigning as party

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leader.

Instead, a provocative

message setting his sights on Ukip's

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warring body that backed a vote of

no confidence in him last night.

It

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is now time to put an end to the

factional infighting that has been

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going on within the party for some

time and to remove those who have

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been part of that. In a single

phrase, it is time to drain the

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swamp.

It was Henry Bolton's

relationship with Jo Marney that

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triggered this latest turmoil. He

says it is now over after she had to

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apologise for sending racist text

messages. For many in Ukip that is

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not enough. 14 senior members have

resigned from their posts in protest

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at his reluctance to step aside.

We

should be a party that is talking

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about Brexit, putting the case for

this country to come out with no

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deal, if we don't get a good deal,

but all that has been lost because

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of the spectacle of his private

life.

He does not have the

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confidence of the party, he cannot

operate even vaguely successfully as

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a party leader. He never had much of

a mandate and he now should go.

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Henry Bolton is Ukip's third new

leader in less than 18 months. He is

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now pushing for a no ball, something

welcomed by one of the biggest names

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in the party.

Ukip does not change,

it will not exist in 18 months.

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Emerging from this seafront hotel

with such a defiant message, Henry

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Bogdan laid down a challenge to his

colleagues, it is time for reform to

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overcome divisions -- Henry Bolton.

But his bullish approach, at odds

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with what so many want to do here,

risked making things far worse. You

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are a member?

I was, not any more.

When did you cancel your membership?

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Last week on that basis. To be

honest with you, it is a failing

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party now.

I was a Ukip man but now

I'm afraid, no. They won't get my

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vote unless they get themselves into

gear.

It is now up to Ukip members

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to decide his fate but yet another

fractious episode is damaging for a

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party struggling to define its

message and its role.

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A brief look at some of the day's

other other news stories.

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Two men have been jailed

for at least 34 years

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after being found guilty

of murdering the businessman

0:26:480:26:50

Guy Hedger in an attempted burglary

at his home in Dorset last April.

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Kevin Downton and Jason Baccus

committed burglaries

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to fund their drug habits.

0:26:550:26:57

A third man, Scott

Keeping, was acquitted.

0:26:570:27:02

Police have arrested a man who's

thought to be the father

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of eight-year-old Mylee Billingham

who died after being

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stabbed on Saturday night.

0:27:070:27:10

54-year-old Bill Billingham

is in a critical condition

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after he was found with a stab wound

in his stomach.

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A leading manufacturer

of ejector seats,

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Martin-Baker Aircraft Limited,

has admitted breaking

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a health and safety law

in connection with the death

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of a Red Arrows pilot.

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Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham

died in 2011 when he was thrown

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from his jet while it was

on the ground at RAF

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Scampton in Lincolnshire.

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Sentencing will take

place next month.

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Our correspondent

Danny Savage reports.

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This is the Red Arrows Hawk jet that

Sean Cunningham was ejected from.

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Unknown to him, the ejector seat

was in an unsafe position and went

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off unexpectedly with the plane

on the ground.

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The 35-year-old, whose life's

ambition was to be a Red Arrows

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pilot, could have survived

but the parachute on the seat

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failed to deploy.

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He crashed back down,

still strapped to the seat,

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and died from his injuries.

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The Red Arrows are based here at RAF

Scampton in Lincolnshire.

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This is where Flight Lieutenant Sean

Cunningham was fatally injured

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back in November 2011.

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His inquest heard that

an over-tightened nut and bolt

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on his ejector seat stopped

the parachute from working properly.

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The manufacturers of that seat,

Martin-Baker, knew about the issue

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and told some air forces but not

the Ministry of Defence.

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So the engineers here

were unaware of the issue.

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Flight Lieutenant Cunningham's

sister, mother and father

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were in court today to hear

the guilty plea.

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This has been a long

ordeal for them.

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We welcome the conclusion

of the coroner which confirmed

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what we knew all along,

which is that Sean was blameless.

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A director of Martin-Baker,

John Martin, seen here

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second from the left,

today admitted breaking

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health and safety law

on behalf of the company.

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One former senior RAF officer

believes this incident

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has changed attitudes.

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They are an outstandingly good

company and what went wrong

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would have hurt them deeply as well.

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They have learned a terrible

amount from this.

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Martin-Baker ejection seats

are still fitted to Red Arrows Hawks

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and all RAF fast jets.

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The company says their equipment has

saved the lives of thousands

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of aircrew over many decades.

0:29:270:29:28

Danny Savage, BBC News, Lincoln.

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The Chilean player Alexis Sanchez

has completed his much-anticipated

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move to Manchester United

from Arsenal and is expected

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to become the highest-paid player

in the Premier League.

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He is reported to earn £500,000 per

week.

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Let's join our sports editor,

Dan Roan, who's at Old Trafford

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with the latest tonight.

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Fuelled by booming broadcast deals,

Premier League finances have seen to

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be in a different planet for years

but the remarkable Alexis Sanchez

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deal takes it to a whole new level,

revealing much about the desperation

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that Manchester United feel as they

tried to claw back lost ground

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against arch rivals and runaway

league leaders Manchester City, the

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power and influence of football

agent and the amount of money that

0:30:150:30:18

is swilling around the English game.

United may not have had to pay a fee

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for this signing but it is certainly

not a free transfer.

0:30:230:30:28

Sanchez has scored an absolute

beauty!

It is talent like this that

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has persuaded Manchester United to

make Alexis Sanchez the best paid

0:30:340:30:38

player in Premier League history.

The striker remarkably set to earn a

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report that half £1 million a week

after his protracted transfer from

0:30:420:30:49

Arsenal was finally completed. More

akin to a movie trailer than a

0:30:490:30:54

signing announcement, United howled

at his arrival with a carefully

0:30:540:30:57

orchestrated video on their social

media tonight. The rest of the game

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left to marvel at a deal the like of

which British football has never

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seen before.

The money side of it is

absolutely huge, it is absurd in

0:31:050:31:12

some people's eyes. Our football is

worth this? Arsene Wenger a couple

0:31:120:31:18

of days ago said it would not be

long before a player earns £1

0:31:180:31:23

million a week.

With midfielder

Henrikh Mkhitaryan heading to

0:31:230:31:25

Arsenal as part of eight swap deal,

United may have avoided paying a

0:31:250:31:29

transfer fee for centres but with

his agent reportedly pocketing £50

0:31:290:31:34

million, the full cost of the zoning

could turn into a staggering £180

0:31:340:31:39

million. -- of the signing. Jose

Mourinho made clear his admiration

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earlier this month.

The only word I

can say is the same with everybody

0:31:440:31:51

says, a phenomenal player. Apart

from that, Arsenal player.

Not any

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more, megarich Manchester City have

been the favourites to sign him but

0:31:540:31:57

even they were scared off by the

money involved and it instead United

0:31:570:32:01

to won the race for his signature

and they must now hope he is worth

0:32:010:32:04

it.

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Many tributes have been paid

to the former England football

0:32:060:32:09

captain Jimmy Armfield,

a member of the 1966

0:32:090:32:11

World Cup winning squad,

who's died at the age of 82.

0:32:110:32:15

Sir Bobby Charlton said

he was "the most honest and genuine

0:32:150:32:17

gentlemen I had the good

fortune to meet".

0:32:170:32:20

He spent his entire career

at Blackpool, playing more

0:32:200:32:22

than 600 games for the club.

0:32:220:32:26

Armfield later became a manager

and a highly-respected

0:32:260:32:28

pundit for BBC Radio.

0:32:280:32:31

He was recently asked how he'd

like to be remembered.

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Somebody asked me once, they said,

when you see yourself now,

0:32:350:32:38

don't you wish you'd have had

all the television programmes

0:32:380:32:41

they have, you know,

when you were playing?

0:32:410:32:43

And I thought about it for a minute.

0:32:430:32:45

And I said, I'm not so sure, really.

0:32:450:32:48

I said, it's probably

better to let them think

0:32:480:32:51

I was a half decent player!

0:32:510:32:56

Jimmy Armfield, who's

died at the age of 82.

0:32:560:32:59

Here on BBC One it's time

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