07/01/2018 BBC Weekend News

Good afternoon.

The Prime Minister's been setting

out her plans for the year

ahead as she prepares

to reshuffle her Cabinet.

Theresa May told the BBC that

problems in the health

service were not simply due

to a lack of funding.

Labour said the Government had no

plan to deal with the severe

pressures facing the NHS.

Our political correspondent

Susanna Mendonca reports.

It has been a tough year for Theresa

May. She lost her majority in the

election, faced a rebellion from her

own backbenchers, had to deal with

resignations and even had to sack

her second-in-command, meaning she

now needs a Cabinet reshuffle.

No prizes for guessing, Andrew,

obviously Damian Green's departure

before Christmas mean some changes

need to be made.

Now in an interview with the BBC,

Mrs May has made it clear that she

wants her premiership to be about

more than just Brexit. But the New

Year has already brought in old

problems.

73 outstanding ambulances right

now...

The latest challenge for Mrs

May, a winter crisis in the NHS from

a first-hand perspective.

The woman filming this weighted in

an ambulance for hours before her

mother, who had suffered a stroke,

could be seen by doctors at a chance

that hospital.

It is gobsmacking and devastating.

It feels like a sick feeling, like a

sickening feeling that this is how

bad it is.

The Prime Minister was asked about

the case.

I recognise that people

have concerns that they have

experience of that sort. If we look

at what is happening across the NHS,

we see that actually the NHS is

delivering for more people, treating

more people and people... More

people are being seen with the four

hours every day than a few years

ago.

Labour blames government cuts for

the latest crisis and has warned the

Prime Minister against promoting

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt in the

reshuffle this week.

They do not have a plan to get those

people of the trolleys in corridors,

elderly people this January being

treated in ambulances. She has no

plans for them. Apparently her only

plan is to promote this Health

Secretary, they should be demoting

him. If she promoters Health

Secretary tomorrow it is a betrayal

of the 75,000 people in the back of

ambulances.

The steep hike in rail fares is

another issue putting the Government

under pressure at the start of the

year, as is the decision to release

the serial six attacker John Warboys

on parole. The Government is going

to review how those kinds of

decisions are made.

The parole board operates

independently but I think it is

right that we as a Government will

look at the question of openness and

the issue of how victims are kept in

touch.

Those challenges aside, Theresa May

is keen to move the conversation

onto more positive ideas, like

creating a new forest. But by the

end of this year she needs a deal on

Brexit, so it is an issue band to

keep dominating her time.

Susana Mendonca, BBC News.

Some of the UK's biggest retailers -

including B&Q, Wickes,

Morrisons and the Co-op -

have agreed to stop selling acids

and corrosive substances

to customers under 18 years old.

The scheme is intended to help

reduce the number of acid attacks

until the Government passes

legislation banning such sales.

Our home affairs correspondent

Dominic Casciani has more.

The human cost of an acid attack.

Where's it hurting, mate, your eyes?

Police officers pour

water over the victim,

Jabed Hussain, last July.

Thieves wanted the London

delivery driver's moped.

His helmet saved him

from serious injury.

Police recorded more than 500

attacks involving corrosive

substances in England and Wales

in the year to last April.

Officials think the true figure

could be twice as high.

Ministers have launched an acid

action plan to cut attacks.

Today the first part

of that plan, a voluntary

ban by DIY chains -

including B&Q - on selling harmful

chemicals to under-18s.

Waitrose and the Co-op

are also involved, agreeing

to challenge underage customers,

just like they would

if they were buying alcohol.

Acid attacks are most horrific

crimes, and what we want to do

is make sure that we restrict

access, support victims, police

these attacks really effectively.

It isn't just major

retailers who are signing up

to secure their shelves.

The association representing

hardware shops is urging them

to play their part too.

This one in London says

the move is long overdue.

Definitely a good idea.

We've always checked ID for acid.

Same thing as if you go

to a supermarket and you go to buy

alcohol, you are asked for ID.

It should be the same thing here.

The voluntary scheme wouldn't have

stopped this man, Arthur Collins,

jailed for 20 years for this

appalling nightclub attack.

Watch the CCTV.

You can see the 25-year-old throwing

acid on his victims.

Ministers are however proposing

a new crime of carrying acid

without good reason -

saying the harmful substance, just

like knives, shouldn't be in public.

Dominic Casciani, BBC News.

More than 30 people are missing

after an oil tanker caught fire

after colliding with a cargo ship

off the east coast of China.

The tanker - which is

registered in Panama -

was travelling from Iran

to South Korea when it hit another

vessel around 160 nautical miles off

the coast of Shanghai.

It had more than a million tonnes of

crude oil on board.

The 21 Chinese crew

members of the cargo ship

have all been rescued.

The German Chancellor,

Angela Merkel, says she's optimistic

that her centre right

Christian Democrats can

reach a coalition deal

with the centre-left Social

Democrats.

Five days of talks

began this morning.

It comes three months

after the election in Germany.

The French president,

Emmanuel Macron, has been paying

tribute to the victims

of the Islamist attack

on a satirical magazine and a Jewish

supermarket in Paris

three years ago.

At the former headquarters

of the Charlie Hebdo magazine,

President Macron laid a wreath

for the 12 people shot dead by two

brothers.

The first major ceremony

since Hollywood was hit

by the Harvey Weinstein scandal gets

under way later.

Stars attending the Golden Globes

are expected to wear

all black on the red carpet,

in support of women who have brought

forward complaints of sexual

harassment in the industry.

Our North America

correspondent James Cook

reports from Los Angeles.

In Hollywood, they're getting ready

to put their best foot forward.

But this year's awards season may be

more protest than party.

The dirty secrets of the movie

business have been exposed in recent

months, and now scores of stars say

they will wear black

to the Golden Globes to promote

a campaign called Time's Up.

It's time to deal with this.

It's time to deal with this and not

put up with it any more.

We are all wearing black to stand

in solidarity, not just for women

and what is happening in Hollywood

and in this industry,

but to represent and to stand

for all women across all industries

and to support them.

The cleansing has already begun.

Kevin Spacey, facing multiple

allegations of sexual assault,

was cut out of this film just weeks

before its release.

Co-star Michelle Williams told me

she reshot her scenes for free.

I couldn't bear the thought

of being in a movie that glorified

somebody who had hurt people

in these ways.

I didn't want to have

anything to do with it.

While Hollywood is gathering to pat

itself on the back as usual,

everything has changed this year.

Just a few months ago,

the entertainment industry

was thrown into turmoil,

and everyone here is only just

beginning to work out what that

means for the future.

James Cook, BBC News, Los Angeles.

Cricket and England are facing

another defeat in the fifth

and final Ashes Test in Sydney.

The tourists closed the fourth day

on 93-4 in their second innings,

still 210 runs short

of Australia's total.

Patrick Gearey reports.

When Australians say

it's hot, it's hot.

The weather of the Outback

at the end to England's arid Ashes -

take shade, take water,

take wickets if you can.

Not easy.

Shaun Marsh hadn't even sweated

when he went to a century.

The celebration a family

do with brother Mitch,

who was soon hosting.

On going to his own hundred,

the Marshes were so keen to hug

that they almost forgot to run.

Australia had enough anyway.

This was now both physical

and mental disintegration.

Punishing England

in 40 degrees heat.

The Aussies declared mercy on 649-7.

So England 303 runs behind

and the chatter here is just how

quickly Australia can win this.

England's batsmen have one last

chance in this Ashes Series

to show some character.

Under the glare of the sun

and the scoreboard,

England tried to hang on,

but less than 15 minutes

in Mark Stoneman was gone for none.

Next the survival expert Alastair

Cook, battled by Nathan Lyon.

Sydney recorded its highest

temperature and all England wanted

to do was stay out of it.

-- stay out in it.

James Vince couldn't,

head in a haze.

Dawid Malan went too,

and though Jonny Bairstow

accompanied Joe Root to see England

through, this was a day which

brought their problems to the boil.

Patrick Gearey, BBC News, in Sydney.

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