number of incidents involving people with mental health issues, as our social affairs correspondent, alison holtet police rapid response team heads to an emergency call that'sjust come in. this is our second mental health call for tonight. it's our second call of the night. we haven't dealt with anything elsem, apart from two mental health calls already. we spent four shifts with front line officers, as they dealt with 999 calls. the address has come back before to a male who has suicidal thoughts. you don't have to spend long with the emergency services to realise just how many of their calls involve people with mental health issues in some way or another. hello, police. officers have been called in by neighbours, worried by a man who is shouting and swearing. are you ok? can we just come in and have a chat? he doesn't want them to come into his flat and is clearly very agitated. stop shouting, please, we're not shouting at you, we're checking you're 0k. local residents are also upset. we can't do anything more. listen, i'm sorry, we can't — we couldn't get in his house, there's nothing we can

alison holt, bbc news.he streets of the capital bangkok for the funeral of king bhumibol, who died last year at the age of 88. by tradition, the king's body has been lying—in—state for a year. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes sent this report. in bangkok today, scenes this city hasn't witnessed for over a century. a funeral fit not for a king but for a god. for in death, that is what many thais believe king bhumibol has become. thailand has been in mourning for the king for a year now. finally his golden funeral urn was placed atop a golden chariot hauled through the streets by 222 soldiers. as the chariot passed, 100,000 black—clad mourners prostrated themselves. across the city, hundreds of thousands more lined up for hours to lay floral tributes. among them, was this woman and her sister. translation: he was the king but he always went to the poorest places, met with the poorest people. he didn't need to do that, but he did. to me he was like a father. i don't know what to say. it is extremely ho

alison holt, bbc news.lty of terrorism offences, after buying a weapon for her husband to use in an attack. 21—year—old madihah taheer had denied preparing an act of terrorism by helping ummariyat mirza — he pleaded guilty to plotting an attack earlier this year. our home affairs correspondent dominic casciani reports. wrestled to the ground in an armed stop, a birmingham man setting out to kill. the suspects seized in a joint intelligence led operation by mi5 and the west midlands counter terrorism unit. a week after the westminster attack in march, ummariyat mirza wanted to rampage in his home city. now convicted, alongside his wife madihah taheer, who helped him, and his sister zainab, who encouraged planning via social media. mirza was obsessed with knives and replica guns. he wanted to fight in syria. instead, he turned his attentions to home. his pregnant wife bought him this combat knife on her credit card, and then he trained on this martial arts dummy. mirza's attack plan wasn't fully formed when h

alison holt, bbc news.has written to the airline's pilots to offer them better pay and conditions. it follows the airline being forced to cancel thousands of flights in recent weeks. in a letter to pilots, mr 0'leary also apologised for changes that caused disruption to their rotas and holidays — urging them not to leave the airline. the cost of taking out a fixed rate mortgage is starting to rise despite the bank of england keeping interest rates at a record low. barclays and natwest has become the latest lenders to increase their fixed rates. around 4 million people have fixed—rate mortgages. anyone taking out a typical mortgage of £125,000 could pay around £130 a year more as a result of the changes. the trial of an army instructor accused of trying to kill his wife by tampering with her parachute has heard from an expert who was at the scene of her fall. victoria cilliers suffered multiple injuries when both her main and reserve parachutes failed to open during a jump over salisbury plain. duncan kenned

alison holt, bbc news. cryptic remarks that this may be "the calm before the storm." he made the comments after meeting with military leaders to discuss iran, north korea and the so—called islamic state. he was asked what he meant, but refused to be drawn at the white house this evening. reporter: mr president, what did you mean "calm before the storm" yesterday? thank you very much. you'll find out. reporter: we'll find out. thanks everyone, let's go. we'll see. 0ur washington correspondent, nick bryant, is at the white house tonight. the president keeping up the suspense the president keeping up the suspense there, do we know what he means? initially, we thought that the president was teasing the white house press corps rather than threatening military action when he talked about the calm before the storm when flanked by his generals. this white house spokesperson said he wasn't being mischievous and she added that the united states faces serious issues with iran and north korea. 0n iran, it seems almost

calling for urgent action to find a long term solution to funding. 0ur social affairs correspondent, alison holtelp, to nursing home beds closing, and care homes struggling to find the staff they need, today‘s report says this is a health and care system under huge pressure. the regulator, the care quality commission, says it is thanks to the hard work of staff that most care is good, but it warns that the future quality of care looks precarious. extra money has helped ease some pressures in the short—term, but the man who runs the cqc says it is vital there is a long—term plan to support the ageing population soon. there is an urgent need to have some stability and security in the system so that the future generations can begin to receive high—quality care. at the minute we haven‘t got the security and the stability of knowing what the future holds. there is no date yet for the government‘s promised green paper on social care but it says that it is investing more in both services and staff. time for luke at the weather prospects with lucy martin. a little bit more in the way of , and azé’"""*""

alison holt reports. to nursing home beds closing and care homes struggling to find the staff they need, today's report says this is a health and care system under huge pressure. the regulator that care quality commission says it is thanks to the ha rd commission says it is thanks to the hard work of staff that most care is good but it warns that the future quality of care looks precarious. extra money has helped ease some pressures in the short—term but the man who runs the cqc says it is vital there is a long—term plan to support the ageing population soon. there is an urgent need to have some stability and security in the system so that the future generations can begin to receive high—quality care. at the minute we haven't got the security and the stability of knowing what the future holds. there is no date yet for the government's promised green paper on social care but it says that it is investing more in both services and staff. unions are demanding urgent talks with bae systems, following news the