that was jamil and his mother ending that report by ed thomas.onger than they should to start their treatment according to the latest figures from the nhs. our health editor hugh pym is here. it must be incredibly distressing for the patients waiting, why is it getting worse? the target in england is forward majority of cancer patients to start their treatment within two months but that has been missed for some time. the latest figures forjuly show that just over 11,200 patients had started their treatment within two months but that still left just over 3100 treatment within two months but that still leftjust over 3100 who had had to wait longer than the two month period so the proportion who had started the treatment on time was the lowest since records began in 2009. nhs england says it's a case of more people being referred for treatment, they are treating more cancer patients but health unions and charities are saying this is unacceptable and it's causing u ntold is unacceptable and it's causing untold stress and misery for patients and their

stop saying sorry, mum, it's fine. 13 and jamil feels responsible for his family.here are tens of thousands of young carers just like jamil providing the highest levels of care. luckily for me, i've got my grandad who is always there for me and i can always go to his house and have my own time. but it's the homework that i struggle with. makes me feel sad because now i've got so much homework building up and building up and i can't do anything about it. carers do help the family but it is jamil who is always there for his mum. night. i know my mum needs me to bits and without me she wouldn't be here right now. you know i am lost without you. yeah. you are my best friend, you know. that was jamil and his mother, ending that report by our special correspondent, ed thomas. russian troops are taking part in the country's biggest military exercise since the cold war. it's taking place in eastern siberia. russia says 300,000 soldiers are parading at the week—long event called vostock 2018. 36,000 tanks and armoured vehicles, as well as a thousand planes, are also said to

stop saying sorry, mum, it's fine. 13 and jamil feels responsible for his family.re hugs. there are tens of thousands of young carers just like jamil providing the highest levels of care. luckily for me, i've got my grandad who is always there for me and i can always go to his house and have my own time. but it's the homework that i struggle with. makes me feel sad because now i've got so much homework building up and building up and i can't do anything about it. carers do help the family but it is jamil who is always there for his mum. night. i know my mum needs me to bits and without me she wouldn't be here right now. you know i am lost without you. yeah. you are my best friend, you know. that was jamil and his mother ending that report by our special correspondent ed thomas. angela awuah was a child carer to a family member with paranoid schizophrenia, and is now a young adult carer. she told me about the unique challenges she faced. while her friends were out partying, angela was sorting out the family finances. balancing my college life and being at home and h

this nomination had felt fairly smooth up until last friday jamil. if you know anything about how brett kavanaugh is feeling. >> look, dana, it's hard to know how brett kavanaugh is feeling right now. obviously, he is concerned with the situation he has made clear that he is prepared and ready to testify again before the senate judiciary committee to talk about these allegations. and to defend his integrity and honor. we will see that opportunity early next week and the opportunity for dr. ford to come forward and tell her story about what happened, what is alleged to have happened 30 plus years ago. >> earlier today mercedes schlapp from the white house had this to say about the politicalness of this process. >> someone obviously in this process in the last minute effort wh by the democrats to stall the vote. to basically try smear judge kavanaugh's reputation. >> dana: so far jamil we don't have any answer from ford's lawyer or ford herself on whether she will show on monday. if she does not come to that hearing, what do you think the committee wil

marcia coyle, jamil jaffer, neal katyal, we thank you.s it give you comfort that mour critics are coming fro both sides? >> no, because i could still be wrong. >> this may be her best chance to get past these guards right w. >> mr. trump won the congressional district overwhelmingly by about 20 points. now the question is whether the enthusiasm for trump wl convert into enthusiasm for a different republican. >> does the presidency that interfered in the 2016 election and possibly midterms s an attack on democracy -- >> woodruff: and we return to our second ad >> woodruff: we return now to our second lead story. the "new york times" today took the extraordinary step ofng publisn opinion essay by someone they identify as a male anonymous senior official in the trump administration. he claims that: "many senior officials in his own admistration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. i would know.f i am oneem."to and goes oay: "the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimen

amy: we will speak to jamil dakwar of the american civil liberties union. and then tennis superstar serena williams calls out sexism in the sport after she is repeatedly penalized in the u.s. open byby a male umpire. >> for me to say thief it'd take again, that is a sexist remarar. he has never took a game from a man because they said thief. it blows my y mind. amy: we will speak to penn state professor amira rose davis. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president trump's national security adviser john bolton threatened sanctions against international criminal court judges if they proceed with an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by u.s. troops in afghanistan. >> we will ban its judges and prosecutors from entering the united states. we will sanction their funds in the u.s. mental system, and we will prosecute them in the u.s. criminal system. we will do the same for any company or state that assist in icc investigation of americans. amy: that was national secu

killing dozens of people with heavy rain continuing is growing concern for those still missing as jamil ellenbogen reports from. these the mountain was in destructible but the force of nature proved too great more than fourteen miners took shelter from the storm in a bunk house built into the hillside these thought they were safe but the landslide triggered by super could bury to forty feet deep this is the town of big province it bore the brunt of the storm's power the devastation is so widespread the full scale of the damage is not yet know. it's for news about her nephew twenty eight year old arcane told them he would be home but he never arrived will you know and oh my go have signaled in a moment will perhaps this is what god intended can we contradict what god has planned for us nobody wanted this to happen this was an accident what the local government is trying to do here is to expedite the process of rescue and retrieve all operations the backhoes here have been working all day trying to clear the road invision pave the way for a speedier process of rescue and retrieval operati

latest killed at least forty five villages when dozens of homes were buried on the island of cebu as jamil and token reports villages say their warnings about a nearby stone quarry was simply ignored. a city weighed down by grief bodies continue to pile up in mortuaries here in naga and many more are expected so send for wheat is grieving for her husband or a woman like so many others here he died when the landslide buried him alive in their home she doesn't know how her family will survive. mourning i mean. i'm left with eleven children to feed how will i send them to school we lost our home our cattle we have nothing not even a plate. monsoon rain sugar the massive landslide early on thursday morning at least thirty homes and eighty people were buried as the mountain collapsed taking with it stone querrey where many worked the devastation so widespread it wiped out entire families. now this is the. this is the company a family. father mother and children all died in the landslide their casket our coverage because we were told that some of their bodyguards have already been.

13, and jamil feels responsible for his family. he tucks me in bed.and that won't get any better now. anxiety. just tells me to stop saying sorry, and that's all he says, stop saying sorry, mum, it's fine. there are tens of thousands of young carersjust like jamil, providing the highest levels of care. luckily, for me, i've got my grandad who is always there for me. if i ever need a break on the weekend, i can, i can always just go to his house and have my own time. but it's the homework that i struggle with. it makes me feel sad because now i've got so much homework building up, building up, building up, and i can't do really anything about it. come on, mum, breathe... always there for his mum. some days, i want out. i know my mum needs me to bits and, without me, she wouldn't be here right now. night! night—night! you know i'd be lost without you. yeah. you're my best friend, you know. do you know that? yeah. javed khan is the chief executive of barnardo's and is here with me now. that was very difficult. yes, we see it everyday and we support thous

was hit by a landslide many people had been sheltering from typhoon monkhood when the landslide hit jamil in building has more now from it aagot. i. exist deeper dangers descent down to revealing were rescuers continue their grim search. this is a to go in in big province where super typhoon man could cause the major landslide which destroyed the community i hear bodies continue to pile up as the rescue effort turns into a recovery operation i think. this is the bunk house where more than thirty miners sought shelter here they thought they were safe. i but they were engulfed by the rolling mud and boulders and were buried forty feet deep. we've been working double time to ensure that the process is faster but this is a system that we've had in place even before with blasters coming in now to help i to see both of course is to understand the enormity of this operation the stench of human flesh is present and we feel that we are standing on precarious grounds behind me are rescuers who have been working nonstop while others are family members or come here to look for their missing loved one

tonight's legal eagles, attorney general john you and former doj counsel jamil jasper and senior fellow at the center for american progress, thank you for being with us tonight. i went to start with you because you got name checked in the hearing, this is something from senator leahy. >> did you ever work on the constitutional implications of any warrantless surveillance program? >> i can't -- in the wake of september 11th it was all hands on deck on all fronts. >> do you expect this to come up in this hearing? >> senator leahy is practicing for when trump nominates me to the supreme court. >> if trump wanted to drive laid crazy that is one thing he could do but i can answer the question for brett cavanagh because he may not remember it as well as i did being there after 9/11 but i can say categorically that brett kavanaugh was not working on or was in any meetings and did not work on any memos related to what became known as the terrorist surveillance program. i think he tried to mention that. he wasn't made into any program so senator leahy doesn't understand how classified programs w

that was jamil and his mother ending that report by ed thomas.ique challenges she faced. while her friends were out partying, angela was sorting out the family finances. balancing my college life and being at home and having to manage finances in the home. looking after my own well—being whilst doing these things at the same time was definitely challenging. i would not say there was a specific point but probably mostly towards my exams, having the pressure of exams and then going back home and having to face what i have to face at home. and where could you look for more help if you needed it? it was more friends than family at the time, but because we are very close knit family, it was very hard to step out and actually speak to someone about it. a lot of the things that happened to my kept it to myself for a long period of time before actually spoke about it. that was not until i graduated from university. and you mentioned the managing of your finances. university. and you mentioned the managing of yourfinances. how challenging was that at time

thirty miners are believed to be trapped under a lang slide in calgary and province that is where jamil and organise. to witness for ourselves the strength and scale of thankful monk which devastation into ghent province we jus northeast this is the town of where hundreds of civilians were evacuated from their homes days before the typhoon hit landfall. learned the end her eighty three year old grandmother passed left their house of forty eight hours before the storm struck they survived but now they're afraid to go home. to be poor is to stouffer we're just corn farmers and now we have lost our home to we have to borrow from creditors now just so we can start over. farmlands and now submerged in flood waters schools used as evacuation centers are also damaged. we drove further to reach the town of get around this is what's left of cornfields here a few hours of a typhoon took a year of their earnings a painful for farmers here super typhoon monk a battered much of northern luzon leaving a trail of diff and destruction. across the gun power and communication lines have been destroyed le