0:00:20 > 0:00:22Good afternoon.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24The Prime Minister's been setting out her plans for the year
0:00:24 > 0:00:30ahead as she prepares to reshuffle her Cabinet.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32Theresa May told the BBC that problems in the health
0:00:32 > 0:00:35service were not simply due to a lack of funding.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38Labour said the Government had no plan to deal with the severe
0:00:38 > 0:00:41pressures facing the NHS.
0:00:41 > 0:00:49Our political correspondent Susanna Mendonca reports.
0:00:49 > 0:00:54It has been a tough year for Theresa May. She lost her majority in the
0:00:54 > 0:00:59election, faced a rebellion from her own backbenchers, had to deal with
0:00:59 > 0:01:03resignations and even had to sack her second-in-command, meaning she
0:01:03 > 0:01:07now needs a Cabinet reshuffle. No prizes for guessing, Andrew,
0:01:07 > 0:01:11obviously Damian Green's departure before Christmas mean some changes
0:01:11 > 0:01:16need to be made. Now in an interview with the BBC,
0:01:16 > 0:01:19Mrs May has made it clear that she wants her premiership to be about
0:01:19 > 0:01:24more than just Brexit. But the New Year has already brought in old
0:01:24 > 0:01:29problems. 73 outstanding ambulances right
0:01:29 > 0:01:34now...The latest challenge for Mrs May, a winter crisis in the NHS from
0:01:34 > 0:01:37a first-hand perspective. The woman filming this weighted in
0:01:37 > 0:01:41an ambulance for hours before her mother, who had suffered a stroke,
0:01:41 > 0:01:45could be seen by doctors at a chance that hospital.
0:01:45 > 0:01:50It is gobsmacking and devastating. It feels like a sick feeling, like a
0:01:50 > 0:01:54sickening feeling that this is how bad it is.
0:01:54 > 0:02:07The Prime Minister was asked about the case.I recognise that people
0:02:07 > 0:02:09have concerns that they have experience of that sort. If we look
0:02:09 > 0:02:12at what is happening across the NHS, we see that actually the NHS is
0:02:12 > 0:02:14delivering for more people, treating more people and people... More
0:02:14 > 0:02:18people are being seen with the four hours every day than a few years
0:02:18 > 0:02:20ago. Labour blames government cuts for
0:02:20 > 0:02:24the latest crisis and has warned the Prime Minister against promoting
0:02:24 > 0:02:27Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt in the reshuffle this week.
0:02:27 > 0:02:32They do not have a plan to get those people of the trolleys in corridors,
0:02:32 > 0:02:36elderly people this January being treated in ambulances. She has no
0:02:36 > 0:02:40plans for them. Apparently her only plan is to promote this Health
0:02:40 > 0:02:44Secretary, they should be demoting him. If she promoters Health
0:02:44 > 0:02:49Secretary tomorrow it is a betrayal of the 75,000 people in the back of
0:02:49 > 0:02:51ambulances. The steep hike in rail fares is
0:02:51 > 0:02:55another issue putting the Government under pressure at the start of the
0:02:55 > 0:02:59year, as is the decision to release the serial six attacker John Warboys
0:02:59 > 0:03:07on parole. The Government is going to review how those kinds of
0:03:07 > 0:03:08decisions are made. The parole board operates
0:03:08 > 0:03:11independently but I think it is right that we as a Government will
0:03:11 > 0:03:16look at the question of openness and the issue of how victims are kept in
0:03:16 > 0:03:19touch. Those challenges aside, Theresa May
0:03:19 > 0:03:24is keen to move the conversation onto more positive ideas, like
0:03:24 > 0:03:28creating a new forest. But by the end of this year she needs a deal on
0:03:28 > 0:03:31Brexit, so it is an issue band to keep dominating her time.
0:03:31 > 0:03:32Susana Mendonca, BBC News.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Some of the UK's biggest retailers - including B&Q, Wickes,
0:03:34 > 0:03:37Morrisons and the Co-op - have agreed to stop selling acids
0:03:37 > 0:03:39and corrosive substances to customers under 18 years old.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43The scheme is intended to help reduce the number of acid attacks
0:03:43 > 0:03:50until the Government passes legislation banning such sales.
0:03:50 > 0:03:55Our home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani has more.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57The human cost of an acid attack.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59Where's it hurting, mate, your eyes?
0:03:59 > 0:04:02Police officers pour water over the victim,
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Jabed Hussain, last July.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06Thieves wanted the London delivery driver's moped.
0:04:06 > 0:04:10His helmet saved him from serious injury.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Police recorded more than 500 attacks involving corrosive
0:04:12 > 0:04:17substances in England and Wales in the year to last April.
0:04:17 > 0:04:21Officials think the true figure could be twice as high.
0:04:21 > 0:04:25Ministers have launched an acid action plan to cut attacks.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28Today the first part of that plan, a voluntary
0:04:28 > 0:04:30ban by DIY chains - including B&Q - on selling harmful
0:04:30 > 0:04:35chemicals to under-18s.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Waitrose and the Co-op are also involved, agreeing
0:04:37 > 0:04:39to challenge underage customers, just like they would
0:04:39 > 0:04:43if they were buying alcohol.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Acid attacks are most horrific crimes, and what we want to do
0:04:45 > 0:04:48is make sure that we restrict access, support victims, police
0:04:48 > 0:04:54these attacks really effectively.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56It isn't just major retailers who are signing up
0:04:56 > 0:04:58to secure their shelves.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00The association representing hardware shops is urging them
0:05:00 > 0:05:03to play their part too.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06This one in London says the move is long overdue.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Definitely a good idea.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10We've always checked ID for acid.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13Same thing as if you go to a supermarket and you go to buy
0:05:13 > 0:05:15alcohol, you are asked for ID.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18It should be the same thing here.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21The voluntary scheme wouldn't have stopped this man, Arthur Collins,
0:05:21 > 0:05:25jailed for 20 years for this appalling nightclub attack.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27Watch the CCTV.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31You can see the 25-year-old throwing acid on his victims.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34Ministers are however proposing a new crime of carrying acid
0:05:34 > 0:05:36without good reason - saying the harmful substance, just
0:05:36 > 0:05:40like knives, shouldn't be in public.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44Dominic Casciani, BBC News.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47More than 30 people are missing after an oil tanker caught fire
0:05:47 > 0:05:51after colliding with a cargo ship off the east coast of China.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53The tanker - which is registered in Panama -
0:05:53 > 0:05:56was travelling from Iran to South Korea when it hit another
0:05:56 > 0:05:59vessel around 160 nautical miles off the coast of Shanghai.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02It had more than a million tonnes of crude oil on board.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04The 21 Chinese crew members of the cargo ship
0:06:04 > 0:06:05have all been rescued.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, says she's optimistic
0:06:07 > 0:06:09that her centre right Christian Democrats can
0:06:09 > 0:06:11reach a coalition deal with the centre-left Social
0:06:11 > 0:06:12Democrats.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Five days of talks began this morning.
0:06:14 > 0:06:18It comes three months after the election in Germany.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has been paying
0:06:20 > 0:06:22tribute to the victims of the Islamist attack
0:06:22 > 0:06:25on a satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket in Paris
0:06:25 > 0:06:34three years ago.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36At the former headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo magazine,
0:06:36 > 0:06:39President Macron laid a wreath for the 12 people shot dead by two
0:06:39 > 0:06:41brothers.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43The first major ceremony since Hollywood was hit
0:06:43 > 0:06:45by the Harvey Weinstein scandal gets under way later.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Stars attending the Golden Globes are expected to wear
0:06:47 > 0:06:50all black on the red carpet, in support of women who have brought
0:06:50 > 0:06:54forward complaints of sexual harassment in the industry.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56Our North America correspondent James Cook
0:06:56 > 0:06:59reports from Los Angeles.
0:06:59 > 0:07:04In Hollywood, they're getting ready to put their best foot forward.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07But this year's awards season may be more protest than party.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10The dirty secrets of the movie business have been exposed in recent
0:07:10 > 0:07:13months, and now scores of stars say they will wear black
0:07:13 > 0:07:18to the Golden Globes to promote a campaign called Time's Up.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20It's time to deal with this.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23It's time to deal with this and not put up with it any more.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27We are all wearing black to stand in solidarity, not just for women
0:07:27 > 0:07:29and what is happening in Hollywood and in this industry,
0:07:29 > 0:07:32but to represent and to stand for all women across all industries
0:07:32 > 0:07:33and to support them.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35The cleansing has already begun.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38Kevin Spacey, facing multiple allegations of sexual assault,
0:07:38 > 0:07:43was cut out of this film just weeks before its release.
0:07:43 > 0:07:48Co-star Michelle Williams told me she reshot her scenes for free.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51I couldn't bear the thought of being in a movie that glorified
0:07:51 > 0:07:55somebody who had hurt people in these ways.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58I didn't want to have anything to do with it.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01While Hollywood is gathering to pat itself on the back as usual,
0:08:01 > 0:08:03everything has changed this year.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07Just a few months ago, the entertainment industry
0:08:07 > 0:08:09was thrown into turmoil, and everyone here is only just
0:08:09 > 0:08:12beginning to work out what that means for the future.
0:08:12 > 0:08:18James Cook, BBC News, Los Angeles.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Cricket and England are facing another defeat in the fifth
0:08:20 > 0:08:23and final Ashes Test in Sydney.
0:08:23 > 0:08:27The tourists closed the fourth day on 93-4 in their second innings,
0:08:27 > 0:08:31still 210 runs short of Australia's total.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34Patrick Gearey reports.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36When Australians say it's hot, it's hot.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39The weather of the Outback at the end to England's arid Ashes -
0:08:39 > 0:08:43take shade, take water, take wickets if you can.
0:08:43 > 0:08:44Not easy.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47Shaun Marsh hadn't even sweated when he went to a century.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49The celebration a family do with brother Mitch,
0:08:49 > 0:08:52who was soon hosting.
0:08:52 > 0:08:58On going to his own hundred, the Marshes were so keen to hug
0:08:58 > 0:08:59that they almost forgot to run.
0:08:59 > 0:09:00Australia had enough anyway.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02This was now both physical and mental disintegration.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04Punishing England in 40 degrees heat.
0:09:04 > 0:09:09The Aussies declared mercy on 649-7.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12So England 303 runs behind and the chatter here is just how
0:09:12 > 0:09:14quickly Australia can win this.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16England's batsmen have one last chance in this Ashes Series
0:09:16 > 0:09:18to show some character.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21Under the glare of the sun and the scoreboard,
0:09:21 > 0:09:23England tried to hang on, but less than 15 minutes
0:09:23 > 0:09:26in Mark Stoneman was gone for none.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30Next the survival expert Alastair Cook, battled by Nathan Lyon.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33Sydney recorded its highest temperature and all England wanted
0:09:33 > 0:09:40to do was stay out of it.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42-- stay out in it.
0:09:42 > 0:09:43James Vince couldn't, head in a haze.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Dawid Malan went too, and though Jonny Bairstow
0:09:45 > 0:09:48accompanied Joe Root to see England through, this was a day which
0:09:48 > 0:09:50brought their problems to the boil.
0:09:50 > 0:09:51Patrick Gearey, BBC News, in Sydney.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57The next news on BBC One is at 6:05pm.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Bye for now.