wan" weren't particularly glamourous, went behind—the—scenes and not being publicised. but with the difference we have at the moment between megan ina we have at the moment between megan in a secretive billionaire‘s retreat on the coast of the pacific ocean in canada, and we have kate and william getting there hands dirty making milkshakes and talking about mental health. there seems to be someone who wants to do very good things, but at the moment they're not doing a lot of them. in kate now... she has been through, to be fair, a long period of what is called awaiting katie. lots of talk about her mother being a former air stewardess and how they were common, although not my idea of common. and lots of talk an unpleasant gossip, and being told that people were reporting should only gone to st angers to bag a prince. she survived all that, three children five and she's sitting

there wearing it very expensive clothes and a massive tingly diamond earrings. i'd be gritting my head off ifi earrings. i'd be gritting my head off if i was wearing those. she's produced three children, married to the next king, looking after him, turning out for him. the queen will be saying, "this is how one doesn't. one turns up, leaves, smiles, one doesn't say anything." you wonder where the papers go with this because clearly there is a while before — you made reference to this case democrat legal case? we are looking for an update, and the queen once it resolved in short order. do you expect it by the weekend or early next week to know how it will play out? people said that about brexit and that took years. one family can sort things out a bit easier than 27 nation states, it would appear. who would have thought? we have a period of time where mary and —— meghan and kate

sell newspapers, even if people at home are saying they don't care about the royals, you're all talking about the royals, you're all talking about and have opinions on it. and we started with that. it's the yen and yang of being at the royal family. you have to go to the bradford curry house to get all the glory of being a family. that's how it works. the problem that meghan will have a she tries to do too much of the good stuff and not enough of the hard stuff. let me stay with you because let's look at the guardian. we've been talking about this outside, we are looking for a bit of clarity that we don't think we've got? this is matt hancock, the health secretary, telling five life that it was suggested that the government may be looking to get rid of these four our waiting targets, because it used to be the government

getting onto the health service about waiting times. treated and discharged in that time? the report talks about how that target is often missed. he says it is clinically inappropriate to have these targets, and we are not quite clear why that is, whether that means you hurry up, if someone has been there three hours and 50 minutes, you treat them quickly to hit that target was white do you have doubts about what he is saying? i'm tufele he knows what a slice of bread is, honestly. he said the four hour target in a&e... which has plans to a record low of being only 68%. he says the problem with that target is increasingly people are treated on the day, as opposed to when they use to get treated, over a week, and are able to go home. it is much betterfor the patient and nhs, but this target doesn't work. it is counted in the target. if you go to a&e and are

treated and sent home, then you are counted as to whether or not it was within that four hour period. so he is talking tripe, and added to it, i can see no explanation here as to why it is clinically inappropriate to have a target, especially as we get to the point where, as chris says, it used democrat is getting worse and worse. there has been an argument over the years that four oui’ argument over the years that four our target times sometimes leads to clinical decisions that would not otherwise have been taken, and are not always in the interest of the patient. but because you have a target which everyone in that trust will know about, when you have a patient presented a&e and they have to have blood tests and x—rays and scans, and those results come back, all those other departments will also be trying to get within the four hours. so it mayjust be that that 10% of chait the micro patients who are treated in those last few minutes are treated that way because thatis minutes are treated that way because that is the way the system was a lwa ys that is the way the system was always meant to be. it is always ha rd always meant to be. it is always hard — i'm not feeling sorry for

matt hancock, but getting outsourced to nhs england, they run the show, and the probes are always his, and the victories are the nhs's. this is mr 50,000 the victories are the nhs's. this is mr50,000 new the victories are the nhs's. this is mr 50,000 new you democrat nurses. vladimir putin, a revamp which... 20 yeargrip on vladimir putin, a revamp which... 20 year grip on power. even better, the acting deputy preminger says this government has been gripped in a demand for a change. what it appears to be is that vladimir putin, who is not allowed to be president any longer after 2024, wants to change the russian constitution so that power is invested more in parliament. he could become prime minister again for a second term, so that could be one reason to do it. he is also head of something called the state council, which is an advisory body, nothing very much.

but he could look like he's trying to turn that into the main governing body, which is where all the power will then be. basically he has spent so will then be. basically he has spent so long fixing elections, he just wa nts to so long fixing elections, he just wants to fix one more referendum on this. it's modelled on china, which says it all for him. it's been a confusing day because that headline flashed out, the entire government resigned, and you think oh my goodness, there's been a major revolt. it's to give him more control. quite extraordinary, how he's able to cling on. be replaced by the head of the tax office? although he's now moving in to be number two on the state council, so he will plainly still be number two. interestingly russia's economy has stagnated, russian‘s —— putin's approval ratings are at a record low. he can't go into any kind of

election process into the parliament and have much confidence that he will be able to get in. this quote is interesting, this is him, a demand for change has clearly taken shape in our society. the pace of change must accelerate every year so that its citizens feel the result of decent living standards. chairman mao used to say the same thing, genuinely. a demand for change has taken shape, which is to get rid of vladimir putin, which is why he has change the constitution. but it must go through a referendum first. although interestingly, mr medvedev said the president needs to make all the necessary decisions. while the president has already decided. the future is electric cars, and there isa future is electric cars, and there is a big waiting list to get these cars in. the uncertainty here is that when everyone plugs in their cars at the same time, it may overload the national grid with not

enough charging points. i think where i live, there's a couple in the car park but not much else. the key is getting people to be able to charge their cars from their homes, which isn't yet happening. i have friends you have electric cars, the problem is they have to sort of work out where they will charge up on long journeys. so it is a nascent industry. what needs to happen, it can be of much less polluting, but theissue can be of much less polluting, but the issue of where you can charge your cars is the issue of where you can charge yourcars isa the issue of where you can charge your cars is a problem. also looking at the overload issue come up the rush hour could be a problem when the lights start dimming when we approached rush hour period. there seems to be confidence here that sales of zero emission hybrid vehicles will soar? without the infra— structure. vehicles will soar? without the infra- structure. diesel cars are devaluing, people would like to be more environmentally friendly, and there's a lot of hype about electric ca i’s there's a lot of hype about electric cars and hybrid vehicles which are probably slightly more practical when they are charging. but with the infrastructure, you won't get

plug—in points. and people will have to realise at some point that having an electric car is not a zero carbon thing to do. cars are made of steel, which is made with burning coal. they all have batteries in them which are toxic and need to be recycled. and rumour, if you use electricity off the national grid to power these things as opposed to your own personal wind turbine or something for someone to steal, 20% of our power comes from nuclear. that is the most environmentally unfriendly thing it just says the national grid can't search democrat cope with the surge. storm surges and the whole thing collapses, so if eve ryo ne and the whole thing collapses, so if everyone is plugging in at 3am... smart charging system is coming from the task force, so we will see if eve ryo ne the task force, so we will see if everyone is doing that or not. ending with the express, "stitch up over big ben bongs". are you both

fa ns over big ben bongs". are you both fans of big ben? it hasn't bombed for a while, it last bond 2—3 years ago. not regularly, sorry, are you, susie. that was a one-off bongo. half a million quid getting the ball and get to bog at 11pm on 31 january. it strikes on a deeper issue about why the government is so concerned not to mark brexiteers, or what they will do to mark brexit yet. a lot of our readers and express readers are wondering why the government embarrassed... that's how they will mark brexit. the passage of time continues, a bell bongs. it is deeply symbolic, susie.

if they didn't do it at new year, it is still 2020. it is still the next day, it is still midnight, etc. but it goes to the heart of the queasiness about brexit among the establishment. think i will draw stops at this point. belong. do you wa nt stops at this point. belong. do you want the queen running up and down the street, bonking? that is it for the street, bonking? that is it for the paper this hour. we will be back at 11:30pm for another look at the papers. the headlines are coming up at 11pm and stay with us for that. good evening to you. we saw quite a bit of drier weather today, thanks toa bit of drier weather today, thanks to a ridge of high pressure. but it was a short—lived window of fine weather because the next low pressure system will be hurtling in

for thursday to bring another spell of wet and windy weather to our shores. here it is on the pressure charts, moving up from the southwest. across northern ireland and western scotland first thing on thursday to bring some heavy rain, which starts to pile into southern and western areas as we head through the morning. some of the ring will be quite heavy with transient snow on the high ground of scotland, with the rain slowly pushing its way east through the course of the day. gales at 40-50 through the course of the day. gales at 40—50 mph gusts, in excess of 60 mph in some irish sea coasts. double figure values for many others, a bit milder because of the wind and the rain. low—pressure sales northwards, then thursday night, eventually it clears from the southeast. friday we have low—pressure to the north of the uk, still quite windy across northern scotland with plenty of blustery showers here. it is a day of sunshine and showers elsewhere, bands of showers with sunshine in between, the sun showers will be heavy. some areas may stay dry

altogether. friday has a cool air mass, so it will feel chillier, single figures, making just 9—10dc across south east. the weekend will settle down with cold, it will be a nice weekend in store. the lid of sunshine in—store but it will be, with an democrat a return to overnight frost. this area of high pressure building and across the country on saturday, the area of low— pressure country on saturday, the area of low—pressure clothing away from the north, the northern half of scotland on saturday it has plenty of showers, some may be heavy with winter on the hills. the odd shower elsewhere, most places will be dry, increasing amount of sunshine as we head to saturday afternoon, through the bins for light touch later for most. but you can see temperatures widespread single figure values. saturday night cold and frosty, freezing fog patches around, could be slow to clear in 1—2 pages, looks like another find a dry day with plenty of sunshine around. the breeze starts to pick up across the

west with low—pressure out in the atla ntic west with low—pressure out in the atlantic bringing a little bit of cloud, something of it less cold, 9-iodc. cloud, something of it less cold, 9-10dc. most cloud, something of it less cold, 9—10dc. most are looking at 6—8dc. settling down into the weekend and into the start of next week, but it will be turning colder.

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