two derna that has been hit hardest. two dams burst on sunday, many were swept out to their deaths at sea. also on the programme... running out of time — the prime minister admits it will be difficult to keep his promise to reduce england's hospital waiting lists as they hit a new record high. reaching out to wall street — why the british tech giant arm holdings has snubbed london — choosing to launch its shares in new york instead. as the government refuses to confirm the northern section of the hs2 rail link, will the line to manchester ever be more than a computer simulation? my my gosh, there's a whole fleet of them. is there anybody out there? probably not says nasa, but it'll continue to investigate ufo sightings. on bbc london... bitten by a dog in newham. a

four—year—old is taken to hospital following an attack. it's prompted calls for more responsible dog ownership. good evening. the un says thousands of deaths could have been avoided in libya if the authorities had passed on warnings to the people in the coastal city of derna. derna, with its population of 100,000, was the hardest hit — more than 5,000 are known to have died but many thousands more are still missing. 0ur correspondent anna foster has just arrived in libya in the coastal city of benghazi. that's where desperately needed aid is arriving too and shejoins me now. 0ne one thing that becomes very quickly apparent is how big the scale of the task facing libya is right now. benghazi is a small airport and it is farfrom the benghazi is a small airport and it is far from the hive of activity you might expect in the wake of a

devastating natural disaster like this because this is a country ravaged by more than a decade of conflict. you can see the split political allegiances in this country and all of those things are making it difficult to get the aid to derna where it is so desperately needed. where we still don't know how many people have died but it could be as many as 20,000. quentin sommerville has been speaking to people in derna who witnessed what happened. in the dead of night, they seek sentry from rising floodwaters. miriam with her three sisters and younger brother flee to the seventh floor of their apartment block in derna. the rising torrent is creeping up the stairs of their building. her sister films the panic. 0utside buildings around them collapse. they thought this would be their last moments alive. it almost was, but this is their building now, still standing.

the family survived. miriam recounted to us by phone the nightmare they endured. the men of our building, our neighbours, they were screaming and yelling, they told us we have to get on the roof because the water started getting higher and higher. as we were on the roof, we were able to see other people on other buildings�* roofs and they were waving phones and flashlights, and then suddenly the building collapsed on them. and at that moment we realised that actually we might die. a wall of water as high as seven metres thundered through derna, crushing and obliterating much in its path. some 1 million tonnes of it came crashing down on the city after two mountain dams failed. everywhere there are bodies. the isolated port city has been overwhelmed by grief. and for days they have been left

to pick up the pieces alone. now turkish emergency teams are among the first to arrive in derna. translation: we set up a field hospital very quickly. _ we assessed the situation with our crews and sent our search and rescue teams. we treated trauma patients continuously here throughout the day. this libyan catastrophe has deep roots. after the nato—backed ousting of muammar gaddafi in 2011, the country fell into chaos. promises of western help to rebuild vanished. it has two rival governments — one in the east and one in the west of the country, a pair of failed states. neglect is widespread. this is one of the dams that failed. amid libya's political chaos, warnings that it was in urgent need of repairs went unheeded. translation: it was a catastrophe. all of my friends are dead.

one of my friends at the very beginning was filming from the top of the valley. my friend, he was filming. he died. a quarter of this city is now in ruins. a third of its people homeless, and thousands dead. but the true scale of derna's disaster is unfolding still. quentin sommerville bbc news. and no, watching that report, you get the scale of this, is just so hard to comprehend. it the scale of this, is 'ust so hard to comprehend.— to comprehend. it is and all the time, to comprehend. it is and all the time. the _ to comprehend. it is and all the time, the number _ to comprehend. it is and all the time, the number of _ to comprehend. it is and all the time, the number of people - to comprehend. it is and all the| time, the number of people that to comprehend. it is and all the - time, the number of people that we believe have died is rising and rising. in derna we are talking about potentially up to 20% of the population wiped out by this torrent of water that came through the city. one thing you see here in libya is a numbness, a grim numbness among the people watching all of this unfold

and the airport today, i talked to two men sitting and they were watching videos on social media and the sound of women and children sobbing and screaming was echoing around the airport. when i went to see, they scrolled down the page and they were shown the video after video of absolutely heart—rending scenes and for people here, they have lived through so much conflict and so much, already, and to see this unfolding and know it is difficult for any of them to do anything about it is really, really difficult. a saw a rescue team but it was a small team who had come across here from tripoli and they told me they would be heading across told me they would be heading across to derna, but even thatjourney is difficult and dangerous. the scale of the task facing libya is extraordinary and even now, as we see those images coming out of derna and other cities along the coast that were hit, and we try and see what people need just in terms of

recovering some of those bodies, burials. we are seeing pictures of mass graves almost overflowing. we still really have no idea quite how catastrophic this situation could turn out to be.— the prime minister has admitted it will be difficult to keep his promise to cut hospital waiting lists in england — saying that industrial action by nhs staff had made the situation worse. but the doctors union described that as a �*cheap shot�*. more than 7.5 million people are now waiting for an appointement — the highest number since records began. just under 400,000 have been waiting for more than a year. meanwhile, the nhs in england is getting an extra £200 million to help it cope with the usual winter pressures — though that's just a tiny fraction of its budget. here's our health editor, hugh pym. just come to say hi, sorry i'm late, i'll say thanks, thanks, thanks. you guys do a smashing job. in a hurry to tell staff about new money for the nhs. someone else is going to have to do this.

the prime minister was at north devon district hospital, announcing plans to cope with winter pressures. so what sort of, well, reception would rishi sunak get? local people have to wait for years to get treatment. i've been waiting nearly three years. well, that's what, actually, that's the benefit of units like this, which kind of separate... one of mr sunak�*s key aims is speeding up treatment for patients. you're going home today? that's fantastic. and are you going home home? are you still on course to hit your target of reducing waiting lists before the election? well, obviously that is challenging with industrial action. there's no two ways about it. we were making very good progress before industrial action. so is it possible that you'll miss that target? well, with industrial action it's very hard to continue to meet these targets. but what i would say is we are making very good progress despite industrial action. last year we virtually eliminated the number of people waiting two years. are you saying that without industrial action you would have met your target? yes, i'm confident that we would have, and that's what all our plans showed.

but what's he doing about resolving the dispute? it is not my view on what pay should be... but why, as prime, minister can you not... this is independent. ..get round the table with the doctors to try and find a way through this? why can't you initiate some talks? we have tried in the past and, actually, i'm really grateful to the over a million nhs workers, including all our nurses, who did do exactly as you described, got round the table, worked it out with the government, came to a sensible resolution... but there have been no talks with the doctors for months, nothing at all. as i said, over a million nhs workers and half a dozen nhs unions did do exactly as you described. the doctor's union hit back after hearing those comments. well, that's a cheap shot, isn't it? blaming doctors for ten years of rising waiting lists. if we go back to 2013, 2.6 million people on a waiting list, no strikes. if we go to the beginning, prior to the pandemic, 4 million on waiting lists, no strikes. the end of the pandemic, 6 million on a waiting list.

elsewhere in the south west, tony is among those on a list for treatment. he's been waiting a year for a knee operation with no word when it will happen. everything i do takes dramatically longer because i can only move . relatively few inches - at a time using crutches. ijust can't walk down the street. i can't walk across the room. i have to use them whenever i move anywhere at all. - the scottish government has agreed a deal with junior doctors. there is a ballot in wales. there is no government so no talks in northern ireland. but in england the continued dispute with doctors adds to the winter pressures on the the nhs. hugh pym, bbc news, north devon. let's speak to our political editor chris mason who's at westminster for us. how significant are the pm's remarks? it is pretty significant, for two reasons. the prime minister has been direct in acknowledging that as

things stand, his promise on waiting lists is going up in a puff of smoke and direct in who he blames for it, those within the nhs who have gone on strike. he is posing a question for voters, on strike. he is posing a question forvoters, do on strike. he is posing a question for voters, do you play medics on the picket line or do you blame the prime minister? it's fair to say ministers have pointed to the impact of strikes but the prime minister really cranked it up today. there is no doubt about that and speaking to people tonight within the nhs and beyond, there is acknowledgement of course that strikes are having an impact. one seniorfigure course that strikes are having an impact. one senior figure suggesting the cost is far greater than the extra money being promised. but let's unpack the politics. the prime minister is saying when he is looking at the situation, look, the pay deal is on the table for doctors and we are not going to budge on that. there doesn't seem to be any wingless to move privately or publicly. the argument they make is

they have been generous, plenty of others in the nhs have settled so why shouldn't the doctors? the doctors have made an argument of poor pay going back years and years. labour says the government is trying to wrap a nice all of this, is trying to blame striking workers for a failure from the government �*s perspective and that is cynical. it's not obvious how labour would bring this to a conclusion where they to be in government. tonight though the prime minister confronts a promise he chose to make at the beginning of the year and the reality as things stand that he is going to break it.— reality as things stand that he is going to break it. president biden's son hunter has become the first child of a sitting us president to face criminal charges after he was indicted on firearms offences. he's been charged with the unlawful possession of a firearm while being addicted to drugs. our washington correspondent gary o'donoghue joins us now.

just tell us more about the background to this.- just tell us more about the background to this. this goes back five ears background to this. this goes back five years to _ background to this. this goes back five years to 2018 _ background to this. this goes back five years to 2018 were _ background to this. this goes back five years to 2018 were hunter - background to this. this goes back. five years to 2018 were hunter biden was a self acknowledged drug addict. at the time he filled in a couple of forms in which the prosecution said he lied about being a drug addict in order to obtain a 38 revolver which he possessed for 11 days before his then girlfriend threw it in a dumpster. this investigation has been going on since then and in july, it seemed that prosecutors had reached a plea deal with hunter biden where he would avoid prison. that dealfell apart and biden where he would avoid prison. that deal fell apart and here we are with charges and potential further charges on tax issues. we don't have a court date yet and there's been no reaction from joe biden who is famously very riled up when his family are brought into politics like this. it comes in a week when joe biden is also facing the opening of an impeachment inquiry by republicans in congress who believe

his connections with his son's business associates while he was vice president were corrupt. they are trying to tie the two men together in that sense. we are waiting to hear when hunter biden will appear in court. what i do know is that next year maybe 2020 for an election year but most of us will be spending most of our time in court rooms. a british company whose technology powers 99% of the world's smartphones has made its stock market debut in new york. the microchip designer arm holdings, which is based in cambridge, saw its shares soar by over 20%. but the move is seen as a blow to the london stock exchange, which was snubbed despite intense lobbying the british government. our business editor, simonjack, has the story. euphoria in new york as one of the world's most important technology companies had one of the biggest sale of shares in years, a proper us

welcome for the crown jewel of uk technology. arm holdings was born and raised in cambridge, england. now, you may not have heard of arm holdings but i almost guarantee you own something with arm technology inside it. arm—designed chips are in 99% of all the smartphones in the world. in fact, 70% of the global population are estimated to have something — phone, tablet, gaming console — with arm stuff inside it, and 30 billion arm—designed chips were sold worldwide last year alone to customers that include google, apple, amazon, microsoft and others, some of whom took a stake in the company today. the boss told me he wanted to be listed with those other global tech heavyweights in new york. when we look at all the opportunities in terms of listing, when we just looked at the size of listing that we had and the tech companies that we are peer groups with, we thought new york would

be the best location. does it mean decisions about the future are now made in the us? i am based in the us, our cfo is in the us, our vp of investor relations is based in the uk. arm is a global company. we are headquartered in cambridge. all of our engineers predominantly are in cambridge and across europe. so we will continue to be a global company and navigate that way. shares in arm were sold on the london stock exchange before it was bought by a japanese investment fund, softbank, in 2016 and many feel that other countries would not have lost control of such a national treasure. this is uk's google. i think if we were in the us and china, this situation would have never have happened. arm would have not been allowed to have been sold to a foreign entity like softbank. those governments both hold those assets, the semiconductor assets, the companies, as national assets and would never allow a foreign

entity to do something similar. advanced chips are at the front line of an international technology war and arm gets 25% of its revenues from china, which the company admits creates future uncertainty. the uk government and the prime minister personally lobbied hard to bring arm's listing back to the uk and the company said it was open to a future secondary listing here, but arm's top brass and the party was in new york tonight. simon jack, bbc news. the health secretary says he will introduce so—called martha's rule in hospitals in england to give patients the right to easily request a second opinion if they believe serious concerns are being dismissed by nhs staff. it comes after the death of 13—year—old martha mills two years ago. our health correspondent sophie hutchinson is here to explain more. it's two years since martha mills died of sepsis in hospital

her parents doctors failed to listen to her family's concerns. her mother merope mills' determination to ensure worried families get a second opinion was given a boost when the health secretary agreed to introduce a new system. it's likely to take the form of a hotline for families to call if they are concerned a patient is deteriorating and nothing is being done. it would probably link to a rapid response team with expertise in critical care and a family could ask for an urgent second opinion. the number would be on posters and leaflets around hospitals. sadly, because of deaths similar to martha's, schemes like this have been established around the world. in australia, the escalation process is called ryan's rule, after a toddler who died. and there are some schemes in england. the royal berkshire trust set up a telephone system known as call a concern. and hospitals in dorset, sussex, essex, and county durham

and darlington have adopted it. evidence suggests lives have been saved. the emergency numbers have been rarely used without good reason, and nhs staff with concerns have also dialled for help. the government says it wants to move quickly to introduce an england—wide system. but nhs england has said there may need to be a number of different systems. thank you. doubts hang over parts of the plan for the ages to on the night after the government refused to guarantee the track will run on from birmingham to manchester as expected. it follows reports the prime minister and chancellor are in talks about scrapping it. the planned new high speed railway is meant to link london, birmingham and manchester, cutting travel times. here's our transport correspondent katy austin. it is a mammoth, decades—long project meant to add capacity to the rail network

and speed up journeys. hs2 has also been plagued by spiralling costs and delays. just six months ago, the government pushed back the start of work on its latest stages. it is not the first section between west london and birmingham that it is in question today. that is due to open by 2033, with a central london terminus at euston coming later. the line is also meant to link the west midlands and crewe before heading on to manchester. an eastern leg is also planned but this has already been scaled back. today downing street was prepared to commit to hs2 but not expressly to it reaching manchester, talking instead of rephasing. rail businesses say this has sparked concern. the governmentjust needs to kill the speculations and make its intentions really clear. it needs to commit to deliver the project as it is planned and give confidence to the rail sector and the construction sector that the project is going to be built in full. the autumn statement is coming up in november. hs2 critics, who would prefer

the project hit the buffers altogether, want a different sort of certainty but there has been outcry from some leaders in the north of england at any suggestion of further delays or cuts. uncertainty once again seems to be stalking hs2. katy austin, bbc news. it's emerged that a russian military pilot tried to shoot down an raf surveillance aircraft, like this one, last september. this british spy plane is called a rivetjoint and it sucks up intelligence and electronic information. it had a crew of up to 30 on board and was on a surveillance mission over the black sea. and it turns out they had a lucky escape because it was unarmed and flying in international airspace when two russian fighterjets were sent to intercept it. as the russians approached, they received a command from the ground telling them they were nearing their target. one pilot wrongly interpreted that as permission to fire. he launched a missile,

but it failed to lock on to its target and missed. a row then broke out between the two pilots. the other russian jet didn't believe they'd been given permission to fire. but the rogue pilot then released another missile. that one just dropped from the wing. if it had hit its target, it could well have sparked a much wider conflict. in other news, sir keir starmer is seeking a deal with the eu's law enforcement agency, europol, for a future labour government to try to stop gangs bringing people across the channel in small boats. the labour leader says traffickers should be treated like terrorists. but the prime minister said a possible deal with brussels could result in the uk accepting thousands of migrants every year. here's our home editor, mark easton. in the last week, almost 1500 migrants arrived in the uk having crossed the channel, more than 23,000 now this year. today labour revealed its plan to stop the boats

if they win the next election. the hague in holland was selected as the place for sir keir starmer to launch his policy, a carefully constructed picture opportunity to project the labour leader as a statesman ready, as he puts it, to lead europe's efforts on smashing the smuggling gangs. this is a vile trade and that is why i am here at europol saying, how can we have a better agreement to share intelligence, have joint operations and take these gangs down? europol is an eu policing body which britain left after brexit but labour now wants to negotiate a new agreement giving british police faster and greater access to europol�*s real—time data bases and intelligence. labour believes that securing britain's borders requires a closer, not more distant relationship with europe. for instance, a new party pledge to end the use of hotels for asylum seekers some reckon would require a deal with the eu that would mean britain had to accept 100,000 more migrants.

i don't think it's credible that he really wants to grip this problem and his plans today seem to amount to saying that we might one day accept 100,000 eu migrants every year! that doesn't seem like a credible plan to me to stop the boats. meanwhile, we are getting on and delivering. for the first time ever this year, the number of small boat arrivals is down, by almost a fifth, the number of illegal migrants crossing from albania is down by 90%. if they hadn't lost control of the borders, some of what they say might have some credibility but i think if you look at the last few years, almost every decision they have taken on this issue has led to the problem getting even worse than it was before. some will hope this visit is a sign a labour government might one day rejoin the eu. others will fear the party is ready to betray brexit. sir keir and shadow home secretary yvette cooper say it is neither but if elected, it is clear labour would seek a much more active role on the european stage, and that might come at a cost.

mark easton, bbc news, the hague. when is a ufo not a when is a ufo nota ufo? when is a ufo not a ufo? when it is a uap. nasa says it is rebranding and flying objects as an identified anomalous phenomena which it says are unlikely to be the work of aliens. uap is definitely easy to say! nomia iqbaltries aliens. uap is definitely easy to say! nomia iqbal tries to explain. my gosh... that is the voice of a navy pilot. the grainy blob he has zoned in on appears to be a ufo. it is the kind of unclassified material nasa has been looking into. we went to the space agency's headquarters hoping for answers. the nasa independent study team did not find any evidence that uap have an extra terrestrial origin. but we don't know what these uap are. ok, no alien life yet, or the kind many space watchers hoped for,

but it is the public nasa is now relying on to help them gather data on uap. it is the new term for ufos. the rebrand is partly to encourage everyone to report sightings without feeling they will be judged but most of us still use the term ufos. by releasing this report publicly, nasa says it is being open and transparent. for decades, the space agency and the us government have been accused of covering something up, which they deny, but not everyone is convinced. injuly, some former military pilots gave stunning testimony to congress, claiming the government wasn't telling the truth. parts of our government are aware more about uap than they let on. excessive classification practices keep crucial information hidden. top pentagon officials said it was insulting to staff. no concrete answers yet, then, to the question, is there alien life out there. but if you spot anything strange in the skies, nasa wants you to please get in touch. nomia iqbal, bbc news, washington.

back to earth, sort of. a 102—year—old war veteran has been attempting to break the world record for the oldest person to abseil down a building. colin bell flew bombing missions over germany during world war ii. today he stepped off the edge of a 17—storey building in london, as felicity baker reports. taking in the view. as a former raf pilot, colin bell flew perilous missions over nazi germany. now he's taking risks of another kind. he's aiming to become the oldest person to abseil down a building. it's part of a series of challenges this 102—year—old veteran has set himself to raise money for charity. i just want to look around and enjoy the view. i hope i shall understand how to lower myself down. i'm sure somebody will tell me and i shall try and get down

as quickly as possible. here are pictures to carry - in your mind's eye when next you hear of our mosquitoes having been in action _ colin flew mosquito bombers during the second world war. he carried out 50 bombing raids over germany, 13 of them over berlin. to feel that 102 i can still do something for my country, i'm a great patriot, i'm proud to be able to do it. suppose i let go of it altogether? i've got you on this rope. 17 storeys up, time to step off. the royal london hospital's helipad is the highest in europe. a potential new world record in the making. colin's also raised over £14,000 for charities including london's air ambulance. you 0k? yeah. i'm just catching my breath. down below, supporters and passers—by had gathered to watch

colin make his descent. his feet firmly back on the ground, he had one thing in mind. what was it like when you were coming down? i'd like a gin and tonic actually! still breaking new ground at 102 but for now, colin says all he wants is to get a good night's rest. felicity baker, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's tomasz. hello printer early we talked about uaps but this should be identifiable, the northern lights, you could catch a glimpse of this evening. i have been in the studio for too long to see if it's happening right now so you might want to look at the horizon in scotland and northern england. the weather outlook, some rain and very warm in the south, those are the bullet points. this is the weather front crossing ireland and central parts of the caisso cloud and rain with this but to the south of it, warm air is coming in from spain and france as well so here is that front

again —— central parts of the uk. you will not see the northern lights here it's too cloudy but more appear. a fresh 7 degrees in aberdeen in the morning, 1a in liverpool and similar across the south of the country. this is the morning, pretty wet for a time in belfast, damp in the irish sea and around the lakes and into the southern uplands. the best weather across the bulk of england and wales this is where we have the highest temperatures, 2a in norwich, low 20s in the midlands, cardiff and london could nudge 26 but a fairly fresh and disappointing 14th in glasgow and disappointing 14th in glasgow and belfast. the weatherfront and disappointing 14th in glasgow and belfast. the weather front is still with us on saturday but it is kind of stuck close to this area of high pressure, little wind to push it around. it is just moving along the flow so some cloudy conditions here across northern england, cooler again in newcastle, 1a but one in london at 26 and later we could see

some showers and thunderstorms