catherine burns, bbc news. in a moment, we'll be speaking to chris page in belfast. tomos morgan in cardiff. what is the impact? as you know the ma'ori of what is the impact? as you know the majority of nurses — what is the impact? as you know the majority of nurses across _ what is the impact? as you know the majority of nurses across the - majority of nurses across the country are striking in wales, six of the seven health boards are out, since 7am in the bitter cold until 7pm. one hour earlier than in england and northern ireland. pay is a big issue but another huge issue for nurses we have spoken to is on starving. in england there has been a 21% rise in vacancies in nursing jobs in the nhs but in wales it has gone up by 70% since last year and staff say they don't feel safe and it is not safe for patients. on pay, health is devolved in wales, the money comes from the welsh government but the majority of funding does come from westminster. the health minister here has written to westminster asking for more money because she has only been able to offer the same th

catherine burns, bbc news.rom the head of the royal college of nursing who explained why her union were asking for the 19% pay rise. what i'm asking for is the 20% that's been eroded from our nurses�* pay over the last decade to be put back in, so it's pay recovery, it's not asking for additional monies, when you break it down. what i've said time and time again, get into a room, let me set my objectives on the table, let the secretary of state set his, and i'm sure, at some stage, both of us will come to an agreement. but we can't there because every room i go into with the secretary of state, he tells me we can talk about anything but pay. that's going to resolve nothing. what it is going to do is to continue with days like this. pat: from the royal of nursing. we also heard from the health minister maria caulfield — who herself is a nurse. she explained why the government was not willing to grant nurses a 19% pay rise. i've lived through when we had the pay cut and the pay freeze and they were extremely diff

catherine burns, thank you.waits for an ambulance or at a&e and you want to tell if your story, do get in touch as part of our focus on the nhs under pressure. you can e—mail us... a black british charity campaigner who was repeatedly asked at a royal reception where she was "really" from by a senior figure in the royal household, has described her experience as "abuse". ngozi fulani was questioned about her background by lady susan hussey — prince william's godmother and the late queen's lady—in—waiting — at buckingham palace on tuesday. it comes as the duke and duchess of sussex prepare to release their documentary next week, in which they say is the inside story of why they stepped away from royal duties. 0ur royal correspondent sarah campbell reports. i'm very clear. no matter how uncomfortable it is for other people to accept, i'm very clear that i experienced racism in an environment that i should have felt safe in, and we need to address that. ngozi fulani was invited along with 300 other guests to a rece

catherine burns, bbc news.retary, steve barclay, has been speaking about this and how the government has been responding to the pressure the nhs is under. we to the pressure the nhs is under. 7 recognise the pressure on the nhs from the pandemic and that is why in the autumn statement we committed an extra £6.6 billion of extra funding to the nhs to target those waiting for operations and getting those lists down and we hugely value the work that nurses do and that is why we accepted in full the recommendations of the pay review body and last year, the rest of the brexit had a pay freeze and we recognise the extra contribution nurses had paid —— public sector. we recognise the work that nurses do. three quarters of trusts are not on strike today and we are hugely grateful to their contributions but in those trusts that are striking, nurses are still working and that is massively appreciated. in a moment, we'll speak to our correspondent chris page in belfast but first our correspondent howard johnson is at st t

catherine burns, bbc news.st thomas' hospital in london. give us a sense of what nurses are saying to you there? i called you thomas, i apologise i've known you for years. thomas, i apologise i've known you for ears. , , ., ., for years. they been out here for hours. for years. they been out here for hours- and _ for years. they been out here for hours- and i _ for years. they been out here for hours. and i witnessed _ for years. they been out here for hours. and i witnessed a - for years. they been out here for hours. and i witnessed a lot - for years. they been out here for hours. and i witnessed a lot of. hours. and i witnessed a lot of support here. hours. and i witnessed a lot of support here-— hours. and i witnessed a lot of support here. hours. and i witnessed a lot of su--orthere. ~ ., ., :: support here. i've known him for 20 ears... support here. i've known him for 20 years--- was _ support here. i've known him for 20 years... was drivers _ support here. i've known him for 20 years... was drivers comi

catherine burns, bbc news. more about the politics of theirs, shall we? can these strikes be averted? 0ur chief political correspondent nick eardley is in westminster. good morning. nick, the nurses' strike is going ahead but what's the latest on tomorrow's ambulance staff strike. is that likely to happen? is there a glimmer of a breakthrough? it sounded like it a little bit from what catherine was saying. i little bit from what catherine was sa in. ~ �* , little bit from what catherine was sa inc. ~ �* , ~ , little bit from what catherine was sa in. ~ 3 ~ , �* saying. i think it's unlikely if i'm bein: saying. i think it's unlikely if i'm being honest — saying. i think it's unlikely if i'm being honest to _ saying. i think it's unlikely if i'm being honest to you. _ saying. i think it's unlikely if i'm being honest to you. there - saying. i think it's unlikely if i'm being honest to you. there are l saying. i think it's unlikely if i'm - being honest to you. there are talks taking place later today between the

hugh pym, bbc news, milton keynes. 0ur health correspondent catherine burns is here to answer some of're talking today about ambulances — but how does the situation there reflect what's going on in the wider system? the best way to see this is to imagine ambulances as the start of a journey through the nhs. let's begin with those figures from last week, that record high, more than 11,000 people are stuck in ambulances outside hospitals in england. that generally meant they were stuck at the front door outside those emergency departments because they were too busy to let them in. once they got inside a&e, the wait wasn't over. last month, 150,000 people were left waiting longer than the four hour target to be admitted to a ward. this was often because of struggles finding them a bed, which in turn was due to problems further up in turn was due to problems further up the system. right now at any given time, hospitals in england, there are about 13,000 patients who are well enough to go home but not able to because no one has managed to sort the care they need when they leave. so you can

catherine burns, bbc news.s supporters of the ousted president, pedro castillo, continue to block some of the country's main roads and airports. mr castillo was impeached last wednesday, for alleged corruption, and detained, after attempting to dissolve congress. naomi choy smith reports. tanks and troops take over the streets in peru's second largest city, as a 30—day state of emergency comes into force. peru's defence minister claims he had no choice, after scenes like this. protesters have blocked airport runways, roads and other critical infrastructure in the past few days, as anger boils over at the country's turbulent politics. at least seven protesters have died in clashes with police. the unrest erupted after former president pedro castillo was ousted from office last week. he tried to dissolve congress, and was swiftly impeached. his successor, dina boluarte, has tried to calm tensions by offering to bring elections forward. translation: we must remain calm. _ peru cannot be overflowing with blood. we'

our health correspondent catherine burns has the latest details. what do we want? fair pay!t? fair pay! when do we want it? now. _ what do we want? fair pay! when do we want it? now. last - do we want it? now. last thursday _ do we want it? now. last thursday was _ do we want it? now. last thursday was the - do we want it? now. last thursday was the biggestj do we want it? now. last thursday was the biggest dragon 160 year history of the royal couege 160 year history of the royal college of nursing. less than a week later, round two. emily was on the picket line then. you don't go into nursing for the money, you go into care for your patience. but i feel like we're all at breaking point. and now she is willing to miss out on the second day's pay. she has been a nurse forjust four years but says she is doing this for the future her profession. doing this for the future her profession-— doing this for the future her rofession. �* ., . ., profession. i'm tired of coming into work _ profession. i'm tired of coming into work and _ profession. i'm tired of coming into work and it

catherine burns, bbc news. irst of the strikes just a couple of hours away. the next one scheduled for early next week. the hospital is right on the banks of the thames opposite the house of commons. he credited this place, borisjohnson, with saving his life back in april 2020. all seems so long ago. when you talk about strikes, we have had so many this winter so far. whether it is postal workers, rail staff, the nhs takes it to a different level. nurses especially seem to take it to a different level. does it bother the government across the water? i it bother the government across the water? ~' ., , , ., water? i think it does. there is an acceptance _ water? i think it does. there is an acceptance within _ water? i think it does. there is an acceptance within various - water? i think it does. there is an acceptance within various levels l water? i think it does. there is an| acceptance within various levels of government the nurses have much more public— government the nurses have much more public sympathy th

the previous palaces, uh, in which elizabeth petrovna lived, opera anna ioannovna repeatedly burned catherined instead of wooden palaces to build a stone most important imperial palace. in moscow, catherine did not live to see the completion of the long-term construction, and her son pavel was the first to give, the palace for barracks, the garrison floor to the cadet corps, the armored academy for 220 years. under these vaults, only 2018 did not set foot on the foot of a civilian. experts were admitted for the first time. they gasped when they discovered the 45,000 m² time capsule. wooden farms. we uh, read 300 of them, preserved farms of the 18th century, they can’t compare. one object e in russia for sure. i think that maybe in the world. and also the interiors of the deck are artifacts of the 18-19 centuries, the throne room, which served as a canteen for cadets. and then there are the wall frescoes of the soviet era. i worked here, uh, as an engineer in charge of a study room. i rent it was already in a very depressing state. it collapsed crumbled ceilings, while there was life behind th

the previous palaces, in which elizabeth petrovna lived, the opera anna ioannovna repeatedly burned. catherinecided instead of wooden palaces to build the most important stone imperial palace. in moscow, catherine was not married to the completion of a long-term construction, and her son pavel was the first to give the palace for barracks, the garrison floor of the cadet corps of the armored academy for 22 years. under these vaults did not enter the civil gaga only 2018 here. experts were admitted for the first time. they gasped when they discovered a 45,000 km time capsule, wooden from a tropical farm. we er, read 300 of them, preserved farms of the 18th century, they cannot be compared. one object e in russia for sure. i think that maybe in the world. and also the interiors of the colonnade are artifacts of the 18-19 centuries, the throne room, which served as a canteen for cadets, and then the wall frescoes of the soviet era. i used to work here as an engineer in charge i'm in a very deplorable state. niy, it crumbled crumbling ceilings while there was life this building was somehow followe

this is practically, all of it burned down from hitting the altar, mother, catherine, on the other handtells the rector of the main temple of volnovakha about the church. the nationalists fired more than ten shells, the south ural builders helped to revive the abode gradually began with domes with roofs. now we have to make the foundation and the walls. we have begun. so we are moving at a fast pace of god's help. yes, not without it. so thank you very much aleksey ivanov valentin stukanov aleksandr napavkov kristina ivanova channel one, donbass ukrainian militants do not like the opportunity to inflict such devastating strikes on social facilities. the main task of the russian military personnel on the new personnel of our ministry of defense is the missile system from the confectioner, it will eliminate the critically important military infrastructure of the enemy, for example, transport hubs for transfers of nationalists. in addition to this accumulation of equipment, light is an accurate strike, even if the target is at a distance of 500 km, a missile on approach creates false inter

catherine ii and commander alexander suvorov. and also terrible footage from korea where a tunnel was burning, in which there were hundreds of cars and reports from our military correspondents from donetsk and luhansk as well as in the latest news. russia will increase the pace of construction of warships of various classes and equip them with the most modern weapons, vladimir putin said today at the ceremony of transferring the latest minesweeper of a missile ship and a nuclear submarine to the fleet, and another submarine cruiser was launched. many features. all of them are significantly superior to foreign counterparts on how our country ensures its security for a decade ahead reportage aleksey golovko in direct contact with the president of the base of the pacific and baltic fleet, the shipyard of severodvinsk , berths there are ships that from today become part of the russian navy, the minesweeper anatoly shlemov, the small missile cruiser grad and the strategic nuclear submarine cruiser generalissimo suvorov well, you submarines and surface ships have modern communications navigation and hydroacoustics systems equipped with

catherine blunt joins us now, an energy reporter for the "wall street journal" and author of "california burningpacific gas and electric and what it means for america's power grid." as a reporter covering national security myself for many years, i have often reported on how vulnerable infrastructure is, the power grid is. if you would, walk us through why it is so vulnerable and how something like this could happen. >> absolutely. the power grid has been vulnerable to this kind of attack for many years. this is not a issue. it's interesting, we tend to only hear about these kinds of attacks when they're major in scope, cause major outages or other challenges for the companies that operate the equipment. as you were saying, it does occur on a periodic basis. part of the problem is that the infrastructure that supports the grid some of it is in very remote areas. these substations and power lines carry electrons over great distances, so it can be difficult to secure it all in a way that makes it safe from this kind of intrusion. >> it's troubling, because we see the kind of impact, the ripple effe

burn scar and kron four's gayle ong is live. she's in santa rosa. a gale, how are they getting ready? >> well, catherine. >> they do this work year round. you know whether it's fire mitigation or been a flood mitigation, they're hoping that people will get the message and prepare ahead of time with that heaviest band of rain coming saturday morning during a time when there's standing water and people can easily get second while they're out and about. so there's helping people prepare their home businesses for potential water damage. >> tuesday's heavy rain flooded local roads in santa rosa and more rain is on the way. all this moisture coming from an atmospheric river in this case, infamously known as the pineapple express that is expected to bring heavy rain friday night through saturday. we're expecting upwards of 3 to 4 inches of rain and at least here in the north bay, the santa rosa area, the national weather service issued a flood watch friday and saturday for the entire bay area. >> paul lowenthal, fire marshal, but the santa rosa fire department is keeping a close eye on the glass fire burn scar

catherine heenan. our team coverage begins in the north bay. >> kron four's gayle ong is in santa rosa where first responders have been on high alert. >> here in santa rosa, firefighters are worried about burn scars from the glass fire. but the focus is on the winds coming ahead of the storm. >> we do anticipate some pretty strong gusty winds, not only in the ridges but down to the valley floors pollo without fire marshal with the santa rosa fire department is keeping a close eye on the forecast. a heavy storm system is expected to bring rain and strong winds and thunderstorms saturday. >> lowenthal says even holiday decorations are a concern. we really don't want to have a lot of those decorations being a either blown out into the street. we're problems or damage on people's properties. so >> definitely deflate them, turn them off back in september, wind gusts topped power lines and trees in santa rosa. >> even bringing this tree on a car, no one was hurt. santa rosa has also seen major flooding in the past. the rainfall totals have come and so we do still have some concern based on the rainfall rates and potentially the mount. so there could be some localized flooding but low and l says t

be burning out everything russian, everything that is in ukraine, we are now talking to you, and at this time in odessa. at this time, they have now arrived and are destroying the monument to catherine symbols. the next, apparently, is duke. where did you decide which one we are talking with you right now, but are we at war? i hope, uh, how they restored uh, at this time danilov is saying that he is returning again uh is returning to translating the ukrainian language into latin, because in his opinion. this , together with phonetic changes, will definitely push the language out of the russian e world, that is, we can come to ukraine in a year, but there is nothing there, there is no communication at all, like said in one of the programs. there is no connector to communicate. i wouldn't worry about it. here are those who want to communicate, yes, and about the latin alphabet, well, yes, theoretically it will move away from russian, but where he can make such a decision. this will just be appropriate in relation to the fact that it will be a voivodeship. uh, the polish republic so you will, yes, here is the voivodship in the polish republic, the translation into latin is absolutely a

we know largely thanks to catherine ii, one of her first decrees in 1762 on stone construction, the capital at that time was almost all wooden, as petersburg was said either burnr garden was cast for 4 years. truth, that there was a man who came to russia for a long time only for the sake of a summer garden trellis, and admired it for a long time, and when he was offered to finally go ashore, he refused to do it, because he said that all the most beautiful things in st. petersburg in russia he already seen in the winter palace. catherine moved in not yet completed inside, gloomy cold, courtiers walk in felt boots. the hostess decorates the walls with masterpieces from europe. it took 10 years. but now we have an almost exact copy of raphael, of course, there are changes. there were reliefs, which were replaced by picturesque images. and most importantly, there was the coat of arms of the pope, which was replaced. natural way. yes, yes, just so, in order to imagine, on what scale they wrote, then the defeat of the turkish squadron did not come out of the swamp of the alleged hacker, count orlov himself, a veteran of that battle, blew up a sixty-gun ship for the

and are trying in every possible way to burn out the memory that the city was founded by the prince grigory potemkin in 1778, by decree of the same empress catherineey say that khan's ukraine existed on this land even without potemkin, where thousands of immigrants lived, until russia occupied these lands to the russian interpretation of history in the russian interpretation of history, the south of ukraine is the wild field. the bare steppe, through which the hordes of nomads occasionally ran, and only with the advent of russia to these lands. civilizations and culture appear here, but this is a complete lie, here the cossacks founded here in the winter, these are such small blows, where most of all these winterers appeared administrative phalanxes. and a few, on the territory of the kherson region, there was the parnoyevsky palanka in the vicinity of the present village of heroskaya, where salt and fish were mined and transported further to ukraine, however, a new ukrainian history is being written not without the help of western propaganda, as euronews announced in the middle of last month in the xviii century. russia simply seized foreign terr

burned. pushkin turgenev is bitter. and now the turn has come to the empress. it is probably impossible to remove catherinee memory of the townspeople. unless because of the semi-official ukrainian history, and they themselves are hardly condemned for a long century. and i have all the information for today, the loss of news agency continues to monitor developments events in the world. details at 3:00. stay on the first button. the impact of food on a person should not be underestimated. at least because the relationship with food is the longest relationship of our lives. i have so many clients who come to me saying i don't need to lose weight. i want to learn how to properly feed myself and my family and my children. and what could be more beautiful than the national cuisine of belarusians, and in belarusian cuisine there are a lot of buckwheat dishes and, of course, we will cook a simple, but very tasty dessert for the holidays.