from solihull, thank you. talking to us. from solihull, thank ou. ., ~' talking to us.e behind me. 200 metres and from the tunnel, debbie has caved in due to a landslide, trapping some 40 men behind it. 0fficials trapping some 40 men behind it. officials on the ground are telling us that the men are safe, they are in communication with them. food and oxygen is being sent to them through pipes in the tunnel. however, anxiety on the ground continues to grow amidst the fans and families of the workers who are waiting here. now, sophisticated new machinery was flown in earlier this morning. there is drilling equipment was put at the mouth of the tunnel undertaken and where it is now. 0fficials here are hopeful that the man will be rescued soon and, as time ticks on, friends and families of the workers gathered here are anxious and are awaiting the rescue of their loved ones. still ones a month away from christmas but things are getting a bit sparkly and festive at kew gardens here in london. more than1 million lights have been strung across the famous ground at the royal bo

that includes the black country, birmingham, solihulland includes the black country, birmingham, solihulland wales. we have heard from rank and file officers a bit today who said they were unhappy with the previous regime. there is now a new chief constable in place who took over last december and he hasissued who took over last december and he has issued a strong rebuttal saying the measures are necessary because they have already taken measures to try and improve situations. one of the big things they have done here is reorganise the force into local police areas, like many forces within the force. according to rank—and—file officers that seems to be working quite well. craig gilford, who is the chief constable, said he didn�*t think this was necessary and he thinks things are working well. simon foster said the decision was based on old data but they accept the level of monitoring will now go on. they are saying that crime is already beginning to fall in key areas and they have already taken measures which will improve the force�*s performance. phil the force's performance. phil mackie

more than one and a half million people in birmingham, sandwell and solihull are told they can no longergain next week and quite probably the week after. and that means — it means a lot of distress for a lot of patients. but at the same time that the trust was struggling to cope with a surging wave of covid, and when her ceo was facing grave and damaging criticism, jacqui smith, the chair of the trust and its ultimate leader, decided to take up to three months of unpaid leave in order to appear on television. dancing the samba, _ jacqui smith and anton du beke. jacqui smith has since said she agreed to take part because it looked like the pandemic was more or less over. this was not the case. numbers were actually surging. in the midst of people risking their lives to come into work. so i worked on the front line throughout. i can remember the first time i came in and saw that the visitor car park was empty and it was just the staff car park. and it really hit me then, that each one of us were risking our lives by working through this. and jacqui was on strictly come dancing. gerry moyni

he's there in solihull.t this single issue will or will not one way or the other win or lose, the election for keir starmer i think he has found himself between a rock and a hard place. um, the interview with nigel farage did . and it with nigel farage did. and it didn't go quite as smoothly as he would have wanted. he had to clarify what he said. he said that he wasn't referring to, um, the fact that they had the right to turn off the electricity. the water. et cetera . he was water. et cetera. he was referring to the overall issue of israel. had the right to defend itself . um, and of defend itself. um, and of course, what he wants to do is put distance between the kind of corbyn era. what was perceived to be an anti—semitic element within the party and, and what he wants to do, which is embrace the jewish community and make them feel more at home within, within the labour confines . um, within the labour confines. um, but this, this is a very, very difficult line to straddle . and difficult line to stradd

yeah we'll start you, brian duggan in start with you, brian duggan in solihull.it's pretty clear from the debate in the studio that the new something that we new party is something that we want to see emerging. >> or the consensus in want to see emerging. >> studio the consensus in want to see emerging. >> studio that|e consensus in want to see emerging. >> studio that anyway,1sus in want to see emerging. >> studio that anyway, um, in the studio is that anyway, um, i think, look, think the tory think, look, i think the tory party conservative is a real identity crisis. >> um , they don't know where >> um, they don't know where they stand, which is why someone like cameron has been brought back into government as you say, kind of dinosaur and a man largely responsible for, for some of the febrile politics. >> he could be on the john cleese programme, could be used to be on the dinosaur. >> yes . >> yes. >> yes. >> the dinosaur era. >> the dinosaur era. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> yeah. and labour. i i kind of disagree with you in terms of what you're saying in term

want for your i'm going to start with you, brian dooganin going to start with you, brian doogan in solihullthe terrible atrocities that happened on october 7th and was instigated by hamas, a child is killed in gaza on average . every killed in gaza on average. every ten minutes. >> yeah , the main hospital, the >> yeah, the main hospital, the al—shifa hospital, is besieged . al—shifa hospital, is besieged. there's no power , no medicine, there's no power, no medicine, no . water there are 500 patients no. water there are 500 patients there. nana and there are thousands of people taking refuge in the hospital. it is besieged. there's no one getting in, no one getting out. 1.5 million people being displaced . million people being displaced. it absolutely needs to be humanitarian pauses, but i hear you, brian. >> but so your audio is cutting out a bit. but i hear you. but i mean, a lot of this could stop if they would perhaps release the hostages. let's go to alan if they would perhaps release the h(alan, s. let's go to alan if they would perhaps release the h(alan, you're; go to alan if they