:00:12. > :00:18.Millions of commuters face major travel disruption after talks
:00:19. > :00:23.to avert a 24-hour Tube strike collapsed this afternoon.
:00:24. > :00:26.Industrial action is due to start on Sunday and will pretty much
:00:27. > :00:28.shut down all Zone One stations on Monday.
:00:29. > :00:33.Here's our transport correspondent, Tom Edwards.
:00:34. > :00:36.Arriving for talks, there was some optimism this long-running
:00:37. > :00:42.acrimonious dispute could be resolved, but not much.
:00:43. > :00:45.Is this about the unions showing the mayor who's boss?
:00:46. > :00:47.Absolutely not, it's about having a safe London Underground
:00:48. > :00:51.for the 4 million people that use it nearly everyday.
:00:52. > :00:53.This dispute goes back to the closure of the Tube ticket
:00:54. > :00:58.offices under the previous mayor, Boris Johnson, in 2015.
:00:59. > :01:02.The unions always hated the policy, saying it was unsafe,
:01:03. > :01:09.But the closures happened, and around 840 jobs went.
:01:10. > :01:15.London Underground says it saves ?50 million annually.
:01:16. > :01:19.Now under a new mayor, both sides agree more staff
:01:20. > :01:29.But the sticking point is how many, and whether LU can afford them.
:01:30. > :01:33.And by 3pm, talks had collapsed, with no agreement on extra
:01:34. > :01:38.We're very disappointed to find London Underground were unable today
:01:39. > :01:41.to put one additional job on the table that they
:01:42. > :01:45.A miserable response from them to a crisis
:01:46. > :01:49.We're now in a total crisis situation, so there needs to be
:01:50. > :01:51.something fairly drastic immediately, as well as
:01:52. > :01:56.a longer-term solution to staffing on the Tube.
:01:57. > :01:59.Tonight, commuters were disappointed.
:02:00. > :02:03.From last strikes there were hours of delays.
:02:04. > :02:07.It took like four hours, which normally takes half an hour.
:02:08. > :02:13.It stinks, it's not good, especially what's going on with Southern.
:02:14. > :02:16.The bad news for commuters is there's going to be considerable
:02:17. > :02:21.disruption from Sunday at 6pm, and all day Monday.
:02:22. > :02:26.On Monday, all Tube stations in Zone One will be shut.
:02:27. > :02:30.The Victoria and the Waterloo City lines won't run.
:02:31. > :02:34.There will be a severely reduced service on all the lines,
:02:35. > :02:40.What we'll be doing is adding 150 additional buses around
:02:41. > :02:45.We'll be putting our travel ambassadors out
:02:46. > :02:50.into the stations as well, to help to give people advice.
:02:51. > :02:53.Our key advice to people would be to make sure that they check before
:02:54. > :03:00.Tonight, one union says it will be attending more talks tomorrow.
:03:01. > :03:03.A strike would be a blow to the mayor, who wanted better
:03:04. > :03:08.It's also a blow to commuters, who at the moment face
:03:09. > :03:17.A whistle-blower has claimed that people lost their lives as a result
:03:18. > :03:21.of a computer failure at the London Ambulance Service.
:03:22. > :03:23.BBC News can reveal that at least one 999 patient died
:03:24. > :03:27.during the technical failure in the early hours
:03:28. > :03:31.The service say staff were trained effectively in using a manual
:03:32. > :03:33.back-up system and continued to prioritise patients
:03:34. > :03:42.A warning - Jon Ironmonger's report contains flashing images.
:03:43. > :03:44.Shortly after midnight, when the streets of London
:03:45. > :03:46.were packed with people, the multi-million pound computer
:03:47. > :03:51.system which logs emergencies and assigns ambulances collapsed.
:03:52. > :03:54.For five hours control staff were forced to process hundreds
:03:55. > :04:00.The service say they'd been given effective training.
:04:01. > :04:02.With an investigation under way into the technical meltdown
:04:03. > :04:05.at the London Ambulance Service, one death is now being looked
:04:06. > :04:11.at to see if the computer problems were a contributing factor.
:04:12. > :04:14.The BBC has heard damning claims from a whistle-blower that the real
:04:15. > :04:20.The people of London were failed on New Year's Eve.
:04:21. > :04:22.They were watching their loved ones and their friends suffering,
:04:23. > :04:25.waiting, not knowing if or when help was going to arrive.
:04:26. > :04:28.Do you think there's a chance that people might have died as a result
:04:29. > :04:38.If you'd had a cardiac arrest we aim to get you within eight minutes.
:04:39. > :04:45.The BBC have seen leaked photographs of the internal staff Facebook page,
:04:46. > :04:50.which suggests that some employees felt under extreme pressure
:04:51. > :04:54.One member questions why so many patients had to suffer,
:04:55. > :04:59.while workers are described as being in tears, shell-shocked,
:05:00. > :05:04.Staff are trained to cope in the event of technical
:05:05. > :05:06.difficulties and it's not the first time that the computer
:05:07. > :05:11.But never before, we understand, for such a long period
:05:12. > :05:17.We're very sorry to anyone who experienced delays during those
:05:18. > :05:24.We are obviously taking that matter very seriously and to that end
:05:25. > :05:26.we've launched a full and comprehensive
:05:27. > :05:31.In 2015, the London Ambulance Service was placed
:05:32. > :05:36.Since then it's taken steps to improve.
:05:37. > :05:38.The Care Quality Commission said it would follow up concerns
:05:39. > :05:40.about control room problems during a planned
:05:41. > :05:54.Let's find out what the weather's up to with Darren Bett.
:05:55. > :06:00.The weather is fairly bland this weekend. Today, after a bright and
:06:01. > :06:03.cold start we had always cloud coming our way. It's brought some
:06:04. > :06:09.rain and drizzle. Not wet so much as damp, over the next few hours. When
:06:10. > :06:12.I drove in it was an intermittent wiper. The rain and drizzle will
:06:13. > :06:15.tend to push away southwards, leaving behind low cloud. You don't
:06:16. > :06:21.need to worry about frost tonight for once. It will be a mild start,
:06:22. > :06:25.but not that mild, as we head into the weekend. There will be a lot of
:06:26. > :06:28.cloud in the morning and probably into the afternoon as well. You can
:06:29. > :06:32.see a glimpse of sunshine, that will be about it, I would have thought.
:06:33. > :06:36.Probably dry. Not much went to shake things up but temperatures may get
:06:37. > :06:41.into double figures. -- not much wind to shake things up. On Sunday,
:06:42. > :06:44.similar. A peep of sunshine if you are lucky. The wind is gentle from
:06:45. > :06:49.the north-west. Temperatures pretty good for the time of year. We
:06:50. > :06:50.entered the monotony next week with more unsettled weather over the next
:06:51. > :07:39.few days. Good evening. The weather has been
:07:40. > :07:43.turning milder and also cloudier through the course of the day. We
:07:44. > :07:48.did see some clear spells moving in from the North will stop this was
:07:49. > :07:52.the sunset, captured in Dundee. Some clear spells as we headed through
:07:53. > :07:54.the course of the afternoon into the evening. Really, through the
:07:55. > :08:00.weekend, wiki with a similar theme. Much milder than it has been. A lot
:08:01. > :08:03.of cloud around in general, but for most of us think. Dry. Not dry
:08:04. > :08:07.everywhere at the moment, particularly across central and
:08:08. > :08:09.southern parts of England and Wales. We have a lot of