07/01/2017 BBC Weekend News

The NHS in England has rejected claims that there's a "humanitarian

The comments - from the British Red Cross -

come as figures show A departments have had to shut their doors

to patients more than 140 times in December,

This afternoon the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

called upon the government to take urgent action.

But NHS England says plans are in place to cope,

and that talk of any humanitarian crisis is overblown.

Our health correspondent Smitha Mundasad reports.

There are some flashing images in this report.

Winter pressures on accident and emergency - some patiens waiting

a long time to be seen, beds closed because of

But the Red Cross says the strain on hospitals in England amounts

The charity claims social care cuts mean patients are being sent home

without the right support so they end up back in A

At the very least it is a significant human crisis

and if you think about someone waiting on a trolley to be seen

at an A departmnent, perhaps with no famnily or friends

around them and not knowing what's going to happen,

I can assure you when we talk to people, they describe

The Red Cross says its volunteers are seeing increasingly complex

and chaotic situations in people's homes - people discharged

without clothing, others with no food at home and no-one

Figures from NHS England show that overflowing A departments had

to close their doors to new patients more than 140 times

Compare that to the same month in 2015 and it's up more than 60%.

NHS England denies the situation is at such an extreme breaking point.

No, I think that's an overstatement at this stage.

Clearly, demand is very high and it's higher

than it has ever been, but we have the most comprehensive

plans in place that we ever had, but it is very difficult

Eyebrows may have been raised by the Red Cross choosing to use

words more often used to describe a war-torn country, but last year's

figures show there were some 350,000 more visits to A like this one

between December and February 2016 and that's a pattern front line

staff are worried it's set to get worse.

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is calling on the Prime Minister

to give an urgent statement on Monday about what

This is a wake-up call to properly fund our NHS and the social care

so that those who are in a desperate situation needing care

outside of hospital are able to get that care.

Local authorities don't have the money to do it.

The Department of Health says it is providing billions more every

Beds are not quite as full as they were this time last year,

but everyone in the health service knows that things could get worse

Millions of commuters in London will face disruption

from tomorrow night, and all day Monday, after talks

to avert a strike on the London Underground broke down.

Members of the RMT union will walk out for 24 hours

from 6:00pm tomorrow, in a dispute over jobs and

Talks are still ongoing between transport bosses

At least 40 people have been killed by a massive bomb

So-called Islamic State is suspected of carrying out the attack.

The blast ripped through a central market in the town of Azaz,

which lies on the border with Turkey.

From neighbouring Lebanon, Alex Forsyth sent this report.

Fear, panic and chaos - the aftermath of this

Many were killed, others wounded by the attack outside a courthouse

in a busy commercial district in the centre of the city.

TRANSLATION: A car bomb went off in the city centre near civilians.

There are no fighters here, all of them civilians.

As rescue workers searched for survivors and bodies,

no-one had claimed responsibility for this attack, but the city is no

Azaz is a stronghold of Turkish-backed Syrian rebels

involved in a major operation to clear so-called Islamic State

from northern Syria, close to the Turkish border.

In recent days, Turkish forces and rebels have

continued to target IS, which isn't included in a fragile

Today's attack, while devastating, is unlikely to affect this ceasefire

As ours has become home to people who have fled fighting elsewhere. --

Azaz has become home. Today's attack, while devastating,

is unlikely to affect this ceasefire or derail peace talks planned

for later this month. Despite a halt in fighting, people

in Syria are continuing to die. Donald Trump has said that

when he's president, Russia will have far more respect

for his country than it does now. The US President-elect tweeted that

having a good relationship with Russia was a good thing,

and only "stupid people or fools An intelligence report

yesterday accused Russia It's emerged that the man

being questioned over the shooting dead of five people at a Florida

airport has a history Esteban Santiago, a veteran

who served in Iraq, had been receiving treatment

at his home in Alaska. From Fort Lauderdale,

Gary O'Donoghue sent this report. This is the man police say killed

five at Fort Lauderdale airport, opening fire indiscriminately as

travellers collected their baggage. He's Esteban Santiago, a 26-year-old

former member of the military. His family said he'd been receiving

psychological help after his discharge last August. His and has

said he was never the same after returning from serving in Iraq in

2011 -- his aunt has said. Police say thank you argue used a

semiautomatic handgun in the attack in the baggage hall, scattering

terrified passengers before throwing away his weapon and laying

spread-eagled on the ground as police moved in to arrest him. As

things started to return to normal at the airport, it's emerged that

Santiago had been interviewed by the FBI as recently as November last

year. One anonymous source has said he told Agence that the government

was ordering him to watch videos from the Islamic State group. It was

during that contact that the agents themselves noted the erratic

behaviour that concerned them and motivated them to call the local

authorities to have him taken into custody and evaluated at a medical

facility for his mental health. Questions are also being raised

about the ease with which Santiago was able to transport and use his

weapon in a supposedly secure place like an airport. It is legal to put

a gun in checked baggage in the US, as long as it's locked in a case and

unloaded, but you can carry ammunition in the same case.

Santiago will appear on Monday, in court, on federal charges. But while

his motivations will continue to be probed, there are also serious

questions about how a man who'd already appeared on the authorities'

radar, could seemingly go on to commit such a heinous crime. Gary

O'Donoghue, BBC News, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Wayne Rooney today equalled Sir Bobby Charlton as Manchester

His 249th goal helped defeat Reading 4-0 in the FA Cup.

Arriving at the Theatre of Dreams, for Wayne Rooney

This is the stage on which he's been a leading man

Amongst the audience for this special performance,

the man whose goal-scoring record he was now chasing.

Rooney just one goal away from that, and no one would have to wait long.

COMMENTATOR: It's in, Wayne Rooney equals the all-time goal-scoring

record of Sir Bobby Charlton for Manchester United.

In off his knee, but in all the same, and that's

what the history books will now show.

Record equalling goal-scorer, but Rooney's role goes

His pass playing in Anthony Martial for United's second.

Such was their dominance, the lead could, perhaps should,

But whilst Rooney couldn't quite add another, Marcus Rashford could.

His captain the first to congratulate him.

For the Cup holders, this was very comfortable.

Rashford's second - United's fourth - couldn't

A landslide win for a landmark occasion.

To be up there in terms of goals with Sir Bobby,

Hopefully I'll be out there on my own soon,

For such a player that surely won't take long.

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