king charles began a "schedule of regular treatments" and is staying at home in london after he was diagnosed with cancer. this is the scene live at buckingham palace, as prime minister rishi sunak says he is "shocked and sad" to hear of the king's cancer but thankful the illness was "caught early". senegal s opposition has accused president macky sall of staging a constitutional coup after parliament approved the delay of the presidential elections. back to the future star michaelj fox is back in view in a documentary that s been nominated for a slew of awards including the best documentary prize at the bafta awards in london. the british prime minister rishi sunak has said he was left shocked

and sad on learning about king charles' cancer diagnosis. earlier we spoke to a consultant oncologist who told us about the impact of the diagnosis for the king could have on cancer awareness. i think it is already having an impact, i understand the number of men going forward with prostate symptoms has already increased. anyone who can access cancer greening, there is lots of types available, bowel, cervix, breast, please go ahead and get your screening, so i hope that is the important message here. how common is it for cancers — important message here. how common is it for cancers to _ important message here. how common is it for cancers to be _ important message here. how common is it for cancers to be discovered - is it for cancers to be discovered whilst having other treatment and tests are being carried out? it’s tests are being carried out? it's really quite _ tests are being carried out? it�*s really quite common. we sit in our meeting every week, people get lots and lots of ct scans these days and so it is quite common that you are looking at one thing and then our radiologists pick up something else and generally that means it is an early treatable cancer, we would hope, so really quite common i would say. we

hope, so really quite common i would sa . ~ ., �* 4' ., hope, so really quite common i would sa. ., hope, so really quite common i would sa. say. we don't know what type of cancer the _ say. we don't know what type of cancer the king _ say. we don't know what type of cancer the king has _ say. we don't know what type of cancer the king has but - say. we don't know what type of cancer the king has but it - say. we don't know what type of cancer the king has but it is - say. we don't know what type of. cancer the king has but it is worth remembering that every cancer treatment is very personal to the individual and different people react differently to treatment? yeah, absolutely, there are probably 100 different types of cancer, including blood cancers, and even amongst the last five years, there has been an explosion of new drugs, better radiotherapy, better surgery, so i think his treatment plan i'm sure will be absolutely individualised to him. ., ., individualised to him. that was a consultant _ individualised to him. that was a consultant oncologist. _ individualised to him. that was a consultant oncologist. you - individualised to him. that was a consultant oncologist. you may l individualised to him. that was a - consultant oncologist. you may have heard the voice of my colleague nicky schiller. three people have been killed and a more than a million are without power as torrential rain continues to cause major disruption in southern california. it's the second major storm to hit the us state in days. three men were killed by falling trees in separate incidents. the rain has sent mud and boulders down hillsides in los angeles. flash flood warnings have been issued, advising people not

to travel unless essential. to travel unless it's essential. a state of emergency has been declared in ten of california's counties. tough day for our city, a tough day for angelenos, and i have spent time with our fire chief going around town, looking at some of the...what is really devastation for many home—owners and residents who have had to suffer from mudslides related to the storm. we will bring you more updates on that as it comes. senegal s opposition has accused president macky sall of staging a constitutional coup after parliament approved the delay of the presidential elections until mid—december. there were heated scenes in the senegalese parliament last night with police appearing in the chamber. the opposition say some of their members were forcibly removed from the parliament building to stop them from voting.

let's get more on this with our west africa correspondent mayeni jones who's in nigeria. thank you so much for your time, you first described some of the clashes that we have been seeing between protesters and the police?- protesters and the police? yeah, they started _ protesters and the police? yeah, they started over _ protesters and the police? yeah, they started over the _ protesters and the police? yeah, they started over the weekend, l protesters and the police? yeah, - they started over the weekend, when they started over the weekend, when the news first broke that the president was considering postponing these elections which were scheduled for later this month. many senegalese people are very passionate about their country's reputation for being a stable democracy and were looking forward to exercising their right to vote and so there was a lot of frustration when the president announced over the weekend that he was considering postponing the elections and people took to the streets, a couple of opposition politicians were among some of the people that were arrested by the police. we saw more repeats of that yesterday, on monday, particularly outside parliament, where that boat was taking place. a lot of senegalese people saying that they want the elections to happen as

scheduled but it seems that parliament has now decided that they won't be happening until december. you just said there, yaroslava, that people are proud of the fact that senegal is seen as one of the rare democracies in that region, so why did persident sall decide to postpone the elections? he did persident sall decide to postpone the elections? he has not liven postpone the elections? he has not given much — postpone the elections? he has not given much explanation, _ postpone the elections? he has not given much explanation, the - postpone the elections? he has not given much explanation, the main | given much explanation, the main thing he said was that there had been dispute with members of the opposition who had been his collar fired from running in the election, so he says in the name of kind of national unity, he wants to resolve those disputes before the elections happen, in order to avoid social unrest. gym leader protests we are seeing, arguably it seems that his plan hasn't worked, his detractors say the reason he is doing this is because he wants to stay in power longer, it is something he denies but there was a lot of speculation last year because people were not sure if he was going to run for a third term or not, it took a really long time to see whether he would add when he did eventually, many people thought this is a victory for

democracy in a region when there has been a number of coup us, there are currently for countries under military rule, so senegal was a country where democracy was seen to be working, but now all of that is “p be working, but now all of that is up in the air. be working, but now all of that is up in the air-— be working, but now all of that is up in the air. what does that now mean for the _ up in the air. what does that now mean for the region _ up in the air. what does that now mean for the region given - up in the air. what does that now mean for the region given it - up in the air. what does that now mean for the region given it wasl up in the air. what does that now i mean for the region given it was one of those countries which was seen as fairly stable? this of those countries which was seen as fairly stable?— fairly stable? this is a really delicate time _ fairly stable? this is a really delicate time for _ fairly stable? this is a really delicate time for politics - fairly stable? this is a really| delicate time for politics and democracy in west africa. and these coup took over seem to be multiplying, we are now seeing what is being described as a coup belt stretching as far east as sudan, so it is a really crucial moment for a lot of african countries, organisations like the african union and ecowas don't quite know what to make of it and many people are looking to senegal to see if they can, to see if democracy can hold, which would give hope for the wider region and this would have impact beyond the wider region because west africa is one of the world's youngest populations, one of the

fastest—growing populations, a lot of young west africans are leaving the region to try to go to europe to look for better lives, so, it is really important for the international community that there is a stability and political security here so that they feel that development can happen and a lot of these young people stay here and try and develop their countries. thank ou so and develop their countries. thank you so much _ and develop their countries. thank you so much for— and develop their countries. thank you so much for your _ and develop their countries. thank you so much for your time, - and develop their countries. thankl you so much for your time, mayeni. now to the war in ukraine. conscription has recently been on ukrainians minds. the army is short of soldiers and people are divided over what to do about it. under martial law, ukrainian men aged between 18 and 60 can t leave the country, because they may be called up to fight and a new law is being prepared to close any loopholes. bbc newsnight�*s mark urban has the story. protestors shout. mothers and wives are marching in ukraine... they chant. ..calling on the government to send home hundreds of thousands of soldiers who've been fighting

for nearly two years. yaroslava says that if her country is to win, fresh troops must replace those who've already given so much. we all understand that it will be a very long war. our soldiers who are fighting for two years, they deserve the time to be replaced by another one. and also, one of my goals also is to win this game, is to win in this game, and we cannot win with harmed and tired and exhausted soldiers. so far, this is a small movement but it comes at a time when ukraine's generals and government are in dispute about how many people the army needs to conscript to fight during the coming year. people shout. on social media, campaigners share scenes of the public turning on soldiers who are looking

for those dodging military service. this is happening as ukrainian mps are debating a bill to sort out military manning. this question...are for president, for parliament, for government and so on. i think sometimes we are trying to avoid these questions, and that's why this issue started to be very sensitive. the army has said it wants 500,000 new soldiers to replace the fallen, commemorated here, allow them to send home the battle—weary and to form new units. but parliament and government have been reluctant to call up that many, fearing it will hit the economy and prove unpopular. so, in the end, generals always want numbers which impress people. but the most important element is different, the most important element is that as long as the people of ukraine believe that this

country has to be defended, we will keep fighting. and as of now, i see the polls and i see the people want the country to continue defending itself. this is the place in boryspil, a suburb of kyiv, where local men are received for military service. the colonel running it explains the system, which still is largely paper—based and which thousands who don't want to serve are successfully dodging. he's hoping the new law will allow them to summon recruits online. but the new law on military service hasn't been passed yet, let alone gone into effect, leaving questions about how many of the troops the ukrainian army needs will actually be available. so, the government has ended up with hundreds of thousands of exhausted soldiers who can't yet be demobilised and a need for hundreds of thousands more

to replace them and maybe even expand the army. and without a solution to that any time soon, it will limit what they can do in the 2024 military campaign. it's just one of the reasons why president zelensky wants to reshuffle the army leadership. mark urban, bbc news, kyiv. in spain farmers are protesting across the country against strict european regulations and what they say is a lack of government support. it comes as european protests over prices and red tape spread. there have already been huge protests by farmers in france and belgium. live now to our madrid correspondent guy hedgecoe who's in aranda de duero which is north of the spanish capital. thank you so much for your time, you are north of the spanish capital, what is it that the farmers are particular upset about right now? well, many of their grievances are very similar to those of the french, dutch belgian and otherfarmers very similar to those of the french, dutch belgian and other farmers that we have been seeing out on the streets recently, in that they are

angry with the european union, at what they see as overly strict regulations when it comes to, for example, the environment or sanitary regulations, they say that those kinds of strict controls are asphyxiating them, there is so much bureaucracy, it increases their costs, and that makes it very difficult for them to make a profit and to survive. they also say that the costs of things like fertiliser and fuel are adding to that burden. and so they want a reaction from the european union, they want more flex from the european union in terms of its regulations in those areas but its regulations in those areas but it also wants the spanish government to get more involved directly, to lobby before the european union and to provide direct help to these farmers. ., . to provide direct help to these farmers. ., , ., to provide direct help to these farmers. .,, ., , ,, to provide direct help to these farmers. ., , ., , , , ., , farmers. has that pressure that they sanish farmers. has that pressure that they spanish farmers _ farmers. has that pressure that they spanish farmers are _ farmers. has that pressure that they spanish farmers are trying _ farmers. has that pressure that they spanish farmers are trying to - farmers. has that pressure that they spanish farmers are trying to put - farmers. has that pressure that they spanish farmers are trying to put on | spanish farmers are trying to put on the spanish government work elsewhere, because as we said these protests are happening across europe right now?

protests are happening across europe riaht now? . , protests are happening across europe riaht now? , , ., ., ., right now? yes, they are, to today we heard that _ right now? yes, they are, to today we heard that ursula _ right now? yes, they are, to today we heard that ursula von - right now? yes, they are, to today we heard that ursula von der- right now? yes, they are, to today i we heard that ursula von der leyen, the eu president, has withdrawn look at that was going to try and tackle pesticides, the issue of pesticides, and it seems that due to the pressure that we've been seeing, the controversy surrounding the farming issue across europe, she has withdrawn that law that was going to try and tackle pesticides and cut back on pesticides, so that seems like a victory for farmers. but they are asking for a lot more than that in other areas as well, whether it is environmental controls or sanitary controls. so i think these protests are going to keep going at least for a couple of weeks and i think it is going to take quite a lot to satisfy the demands of these farmers. ., ~ , ., ., lot to satisfy the demands of these farmers. ., ~' ,, ., ,,

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police have arrested and bailed a 22—year—old man on suspicion of assisting the alleged clapham chemical attacker abdul ezedi. he has been on the run since a woman and her two young daughters were injured in south london last wednesday. our home editor mark easton has the latest. a new picture of the afghan refugee who fled the scene of the clapham corrosive chemical attack. abdul shakoor ezedi, identified on london's southwark bridge at 9.50pm on wednesday night. but since then, nothing. ezedi's car recovered from the scene has been minutely examined by a forensics team. inside the vehicle, officers found ezedi's mobile phone, but while that helps provide evidence, it also means police are much more reliant on cctv footage to track their target's movements.

it takes a long time to track cctv because you have to work out which way he's gone. hundreds and hundreds of hours of cctv painstakingly gone through. we've got support and assistance from our counter—terrorism fugitive teams who are experts in this, along with our experts in specialist crime. so we are tracking him down and we will continue to do so. will you get him? i'm as confident as i can be, mark, that we will, yes. police are trying to work out the relationship between ezedi and the woman he attacked. she suffered serious burns from a powerful, corrosive alkali. still critically ill in hospital, unable to communicate, she has life—changing injuries to her face and is at risk of losing sight in her right eye. the two children are now out of hospital and being cared for, but the trail of their attacker has gone cold. in one of the most surveilled cities in the world, a man with a serious facial injury whose picture's been all over the media and apparently without access to a mobile phone or cash, well, he's simply vanished.

a 22—year—old has been arrested on suspicion of helping ezedi evade capture. but the met�*s specialist manhunt team says if he's alive and being supported, it could be some time before they finally get their man. mark easton, bbc news, scotland yard. in the 1980s michaelj fox was one of the biggest stars in hollywood, with starring roles in the back to the future films. in 1991 he was diagnosed with parkinson s disease, and he officially retired from acting two years ago because of declining health, but now he s back in a documentary that s been nominated for several awards, including best documentary at the baftas. tom brook went to meet him in new york. i was big. i was bigger than bubble gum. the story of me, take two. michaelj fox has been picking up awards and doing interviews to support the documentary in which he appears.

michael, good to meet you. how are you? the documentary is called still: a michaelj fox movie, which chronicles his life, his rise to major tv and film stardom in the 1980s, and his life after being diagnosed with parkinson's disease. i woke up and i noticed my pinky. parkinson's disease. it's not a portrait of a man full of self—pity. quite the contrary. i have parkinson's. i struggle with it. it's hard. it's annoying. it's more than annoying, but it can be devastating for some people. the story is about resiliency and about hope. an incurable optimist meets an incurable disease. michael] fox! i don't believe this. this is great. in 1989, two years before his parkinson's disease diagnosis, michaelj fox was on top of the world, a major tv and movie star. his huge following, with fans around the world, is quite phenomenal... i met him in california at the time when he was shooting back to the future 2. in the documentary, his far—reaching success is presented as an epic moment before profound change.

i can't explain to you how huge an explosion it was. big thing. and then shortly after, i got married, my father passed away, my son was born and i was diagnosed. and so, just crossed the threshold into adulthood and into challenges that i didn't anticipate. you were diagnosed with parkinson's disease, and you didn't reveal it publicly for quite some time, did you? i didn't know what it was going to do, i didn't know how it was going to manifest itself. and i didn't know what to expect. and no—one could really tell me what to expect. michaelj fox eventually became a big advocate for finding a cure for parkinson's, launching a foundation which has raised substantial sums for research. his optimism is very apparent in the documentary. to deny that part of me that wants to continue to go on and do things is to quit. i won't accept that. he sees his disease as giving him the opportunity to do something for others.

i would say it's a gift, and people look at me and say, it's a gift that keeps on taking, but it's a gift. and it opened me up to a whole different... i realised i had to turn it around and turn it into something and make it some positive thing that affected other people in a positive way. and so i started the foundation, but it took me a long time to get there. the documentary isn'tjust a chronicle of a man who's fought the physical effects of a debilitating disease. it's as much a portrait of psychological triumph to show, as michael] fox puts it, that a devastating diagnosis may not necessarily be the ending, but the advent of a new beginning.

you're watching bbc news, please keep watching, there is panty more to come. and there is more on our website as well. peter butterworth was known to legions of carry on fans for his comic turns in the hit film series. but before acting he had played an extraordinary part in the second world war. newly released documents have revealed that he had been a code—writer and had even escaped a german prison camp, inspiring the classic film the great escape. david sillito has been speaking to his son tyler about the new discoveries. great escape theme. the national archive, and an exhibition of the documents telling the story of world war ii's prisoners of war. you've got a photograph to show me here. including this newly discovered photograph which has hidden behind it a secret. underneath it, hidden letter. oh, this is writing? it is writing, it is indeed. the photo, sent by prisoners, had a secret message in minuscule writing,

and the exhibition reveals more about the men behind all of this, including one who went on to become a famous face in british cinema. if you're a fan of the carry on films, you'll recognise him — peter butterworth. welcome to paradise. here in carry on camping. and here, carry on up the khyber. don't worry — we'll save you some strawberry mousse! that's the new document that's been uncovered, isn't it? yeah, that's right. and for his son, tyler, the gradual release of his wartime records has been a revelation. that's his id paper, isn't it, from stalag luft 3? stalag luft 3 is a famous one, isn't it? yeah, it's, erm, of course, it's the one where the great escape took place from. and also? the wooden horse escape. the wooden horse, for those who've not seen the film, was another famous escape when they tunnelled

under a vaulting horse. are you honestly saying that peter butterworth of carry on up the khyber was involved in both the great escape and the wooden horse? yeah. yes, he was. military, me? certainly not! he played the daftest characters. and here he is, part of m19? yes, well, that's the other side that nobody knew about. he was working for british intelligence, code writing. you're learning new stuff? yeah, yeah, all the time. here at the national archives, when they keep declassifying things, more things seem to bubble up. it's remarkable. did he talk about this to you? no, no, he didn't. he did suffer from what we all now call post—traumatic stress disorder. but i didn't know — obviously he never said this to my sister and i, but my mother told me about it, about things that happened, especially when they were married, right at the start of their marriage after the war, where he'd suddenly leap out of bed at night and throw himself on the floor

and start hiding. and she had to barricade the bedroom door because the staircase was outside, and he would have... and then he'd get back into bed and just go to sleep. my mother would lie there wide awake for the rest of the night. right, here we are, girls. and for fans of the carry ons, it's worth noting there was another prisoner in stalag luft 3 — talbot rothwell, who wrote the carry on scripts. the humour kind of had its kind of start in this place surrounded by watchtowers and guard dogs. but they worked out what made guys laugh. captain keen. and that was the funny thing. dad played these kind of bumbling characters that were always getting things wrong. and there's this complete flip side of this man that was totally focused, writing code, working with his friends who were tunnelling on the other side of the compound, of the north compound. repent ye, before it is too late!

having been through what he'd been through, i'm not surprised he had all sorts of different things going on in his mind and in his life. i mean, my mother told me that when they first bought the house that we grew up in, dad would religiously put on a dressing gown and walk around the garden in the morning, every morning, because he could. because here, he couldn't. those are the sort of things he brought back with him. but i didn't know about this until he was dead. you... so when he was growing up, dad was just an actor in some gloriously daft films. 50 years on, tyler now knows rather more about his famous father. david sillito, bbc news. a unique species of flying reptile, or pterosaur, has been discovered on the isle of skye in scotland. its wings, shoulders, legs and backbone were found in a rock on a beach,

but the fossil�*s skull was missing. it is thought to have lived nearly 170 million years ago. this is an artist's impression of the the creature. it probably had a wing—span of around 1m to 1.5m. scientists were surprised to find a pterosaurfrom this period, off scotland's west coast — they were thought to mostly live in china. that is all from us for now, carol kirkwood has the weather, next. hello again. there's some snow in the forecast for some of us in the next couple of days. what's happening at the moment is we've got cold air digging in behind a weather front that's sinking south and that weather fronts, bringing some heavy rain. and you can see through today how the colder air pushes further south and continues into tomorrow. the mild airjust hanging on in parts of the south. now, this rain is going to remain heavy as it continues its journey southwards. ahead of it a lot of cloud, blustery, a little bit of drizzle and behind it, brightening up with some wintry showers increasingly to lower levels

across the highlands. an area of low pressure moving across shetland today will bring some significant snow. and here too, we're looking at gales in the north—east. so as we head through the evening and overnight, that rain does make it down to the south, clearer skies follow behind. a new weather front comes in, bringing some wintry showers even at lower levels at times across parts of scotland and possibly northern ireland. it's going to be a colder night than last night away from the southwest because that's where we start the day with a bit more cloud and some dank conditions. but tomorrow we're looking at a largely dry day, a few wintry showers in the north, lighter winds, but colder, especially noticeable across england and wales where we've had double figures for the last wee while, we're back into single figures. as we head from wednesday into thursday, the weather front starts to move northwards again and as it bumps into that colder air, it will readily fall as snow. we think at the moment that in southern areas it's going to be a band of rain and blustery winds. but you can see where it looks very much like we're going to have this

snow across parts of wales, the midlands, northern england and northern ireland. but this isn't set in stone and could still change. so this is the current weather warning that the met office has in force for snow within these areas of england and wales. we could widely see two to 5 centimetres and on the hills even more and it's valid from 3:00 in the morning and thursday till 3:00 in the morning on friday. something to bear in mind if you're travelling. now, what happens on thursday will of course have a bearing on what happens to the weather on friday. it looks like the low pressure is going to try and move out in the direction of the north sea, but it could be slower and what could happen is we could see all this rain and also some sleet and some snow moving across the north of the country. further south, a bit drier, still milder, but still feeling cold in the north.

live from buckingham palace. king charles has spent the night at home in london after starting treatment for cancer. this is the scene live at buckingham palace after the prime minister rishi sunak said he is thankful the illness was caught early. three people have been killed and more than a million are without power as torrential rain causes disruption across southern california. .