the disease was discovered during treatment for another condition. we'll have the latest on the king's condition. also on the programme... a final cost of living payment starts going to 8 million people today — nearly £300 to help with rising prices. mud slides and flooding in southern california — a powerful storm left at least three poeple dead and a million without power. action! and we speak to michael] fox about acting, fame and developing parkinson's in his 20s. and coming up later this hour on bbc news... a double injury blow for scotland ahead of their six nations match with france, as two players are ruled out for the rest

of this year's tournament. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the prime minister has told the bbc he is in regular contact with the king and is thankful that his cancer, which buckingham palace announced last night, has been caught early — as he put it. world leaders have been sending king charles their best wishes and hopes for a speedy recovery. it hasn't been revealed which type of cancer the king is being treated for and he has withdrawn from all public facing duties. our correspondent helena wilkinson has the latest. this was the king two days ago, on sunday, on his way to church in norfolk. the king's shock cancer

diagnosis was announced yesterday evening by buckingham palace. speaking to the bbc earlier, the prime minister said the cancer was caught early. like prime minister said the cancer was caught early-— caught early. like everyone else, shocked and _ caught early. like everyone else, shocked and sad _ caught early. like everyone else, shocked and sad and _ caught early. like everyone else, shocked and sad and just - caught early. like everyone else, shocked and sad and just all - caught early. like everyone else, shocked and sad and just all ourl shocked and sad and just all our thoughts are with him and his family. you know, thankfully this has been caught early and now everyone will be wishing him, that he gets the treatment that he needs, and makes a full recovery, that is what we are all hoping and praying for, and i am of course in regular contact with him, continuing to communicate with him as normal. it was during the king's recent procedure for a benign enlarged prostate at this london hospital when doctors discovered what the palace described as a separate issue of concern. the palace is not giving any further information about the type of cancer the king has. prince harry, the king's youngest son, spoke to his father over the phone and is now understood to be on his way to london from california to see

him. the king's cancer diagnosis means that working members of the royal family will step up to support the king both on a personal level but also by taking on public duties on his behalf. a lot will fall on prince william's shoulders. he is expected to cover some of those engagements. we expected to cover some of those engagements-— expected to cover some of those engagements. expected to cover some of those enaaaements. ~ , ., ., ., , engagements. we started to hear news from the prince — engagements. we started to hear news from the prince of— engagements. we started to hear news from the prince of wales _ engagements. we started to hear news from the prince of wales that _ engagements. we started to hear news from the prince of wales that he - engagements. we started to hear news from the prince of wales that he was i from the prince of wales that he was resuming a lot of his engagements and clearly a lot is going to fall on him. we have seen this in history, when the late queen's father, george vi, when he was ill in the late 405, early 505, it was prince55 elizabeth and the duke of edinburgh who did a lot of the overseas travel, a lot of the heavy duty engagement. overseas travel, a lot of the heavy duty engagement-— overseas travel, a lot of the heavy duty engagement. since the king's diaunosis duty engagement. since the king's diagnosis was _ duty engagement. since the king's diagnosis was announced, - duty engagement. since the king's i diagnosis was announced, messages duty engagement. since the king's - diagnosis was announced, messages of support have been coming in. taste diagnosis was announced, messages of support have been coming in.— support have been coming in. we hope for kin: support have been coming in. we hope for king charles, _ support have been coming in. we hope for king charles, for _ support have been coming in. we hope for king charles, for his _ support have been coming in. we hope for king charles, for his magister- for king charles, for his magister and for— for king charles, for his magister and for all— for king charles, for his magister and for all of their family all of the very— and for all of their family all of the very best, we want to see his

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expect. so, there have been no further medical updates from the palace today, indeed, the amount of detail that was released yesterday is perhaps more than one would have expected from senior mothers of the royal family in the past. so, we know that the king 5tarted royal family in the past. so, we know that the king started his treatment yesterday, that he is spending time here at home in central london for the moment. we know he won't be carrying out any public engagements but he will, as we've heard, be continuing to do as much as he can within the confines of his treatment, soak by the red boxe5, of his treatment, soak by the red boxes, the regular meetings with the prime minister and such but he will not be out and about in public. he will of course be relying on his family to help, the princess royal, prince55 family to help, the princess royal, princess anne, i5 family to help, the princess royal, princess anne, is out and about today carrying out engagements, prince william will be out tomorrow. he of course is also helping his wife to convale5ce after her abdominal surgery last month. and prince harry, of course no longer a working royal so he will not be able to help out on the working front but

the king did call him directly to tell him about his diagnosis and we know that prince harry is making his way to the country, expected to land imminently and to meet with his father, the first time that we believe he has met with king charles since his coronation la5t believe he has met with king charles since his coronation last may. so, as i say, no further updates from the palace, but here, as the world continue to react to the news that king charles i5 continue to react to the news that king charles is being treated for cancer. jane. king charles is being treated for cancer- jane-— king charles is being treated for cancer. jane. . . ,, . ~ cancer. jane. sarah campbell, thank ou. last night's statement from buckingham palace made clear that the king wanted to be open about his diagnosis to help others living with the disease and cancer charities have praised him for bringing awareness to the issue. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes reports. when the king left hospital at the end of january after being treated for a benign enlarged prostate, it is likely his medical team were already aware they had found signs of cancer. at the time, charities praised the way the king had made his treatment public,

raising awareness about a condition that many men have been reluctant to talk about. now they've welcomed the openness around his cancer diagnosis, too. the king has done a wonderfuljob of telling us about his cancer diagno5is, so, he's telling others that he's going through this, that they are not alone, he is with them on that, but he's also giving his time to his family to come to terms with what's going on and to see what might lie ahead. it's actually relatively common for cancer5 to be diagnosed when someone is being treated for another condition. last year, more than 60,000 cancers, around one in five, were identified this way, what is known as incidental diagno5is. the nhs target is to start cancer treatment within 62 days, but over the last year 36%, more than a third of all nhs cancer patients in england, waited longer than the target time. if the king's cancer has been picked up quickly, that is good news. an early diagnosis means the chances of a positive outcome

are better and more treatment options are available. detecting cancer early is vital because it means the cancer is more likely to be contained, less likely to have spread to other parts of the body and that just makes the likelihood of successful treatment greater and that will in turn increase the chances of survival. regardless of who you are, being told you have cancer will be daunting. but the news this week that the king is being treated for cancer has started a national conversation around the disease, perhaps one that was overdue. dominic hughes, bbc news. a final cost of living payment is being transferred from today to 8 million people across the uk on low incomes and means—tested benefits to help with high bills and rising prices. £299 will go directly into bank accounts of people who are eligible without the need to claim. charities are urging the chancellor

jeremy hunt to announce continued financial support in next month's budget. the government says an increase in benefits and the state pension due in april will help people who may be struggling. 0ur cost of living correspondent kevin peachey reports. david from nottingham is 77. for him and millions like him, money has been tight. i'm having to budget carefully for food, also for clothes. i have to make do with a minimum. i'm still able to prepare my own meals. i had hoped that my situation was going to be a bit better, but with inflation and so on, things costing more, that's one of the big problems, and the fact that my income hasn't increased. that's meant there's not very much room for manoeuvre. it's a concern. i often wonder how i will manage in the long term.

the support he has received to cope with high bills like energy includes cost—of—living payments. a final one of £299 is being paid between today and the 22nd of february. charities say this shouldn't be the end of assistance. we've seen that these payments really do offer some support to people coming to citizens advice, but that support is short—lived, so it helps fill a gap but doesn't provide the ongoing financial support that they need. but the government says as the rate of price rises has slowed, financial pressure on individuals is easing. it points to tax cuts and in april rises in benefits and the state pension. but for david's money worries, the light at the end of the tunnel still feels some way off. kevin peachey, bbc news. constance marten and her partner mark gordon did not tell police officers where their newborn baby was when they were arrested in brighton last february,

a court has heard. two days after their arrest the body of baby victoria was found under some rubbish in a shed nearby. the couple deny manslaughter by gross negligence of the child. daniel sandford joins us from the old bailey where's he's been in court. daniel. yes, jane, thejury yes, jane, the jury have yes, jane, thejury have been hearing how seven—and—a—half weeks after police first started looking for constance marten and mark gordon and their newborn baby, a member of the public spotted them in a row of shops in brighton on the 27th of february last year. the member of the public said that he had recognised them from the news, started following them and then dialled 999. thejury have been hearing from the police officer who made the arrest and also watching the video from his body—worn video camera. police sergeant robert button said that constance marten had what appeared to be furniture stuffing inside her coat, or stuff

that looked like the inside of a sofa, and that she smelt unclean, and so did mark gordon, he said that they had the stale smell of people who had not washed for a long time. and when he first talked to them, mark gordon appeared to be trying to eat the food they had just bought from the shops where they had drawn some money, and a police officer has to say to them, you can eat in a minute once i have found out who you are. and while they are trying to restrain mark gordon and put him in handcuffs, constance marten can be heard on the body—worn video saying, leave him alone, not well, please stop, he is not well. and the police officer has to say to her, if he is not well, he needs to comply, doesn't he? and then the police officers realised that while they have got constance marten and mark gordon, they don't have the newborn baby that they were looking for, and you can hear the police officers discussing on the video, we're missing the baby, aren't we? constance marten, who first told police that her name was arabella, starts being asked about the baby,

where is your child, say the police officers, you are under arrest for child neglect, where is your child? but she does not answer the police officers, just does not give any reply. the police officers then discuss how they are going to search for the missing baby and well they tell constance marten that she is under arrest, she says, you can't arrest me for hiding a pregnancy. both constance marten and or deny all the charges. daniel sandford, thank you. at least three people have been killed by falling trees after a powerful storm brought flooding and mudslides to suburbs of los angeles. more than a million people were left without power, and the governor of california has declared a state of emergency in some areas. aruna iyengar has this report. los angeles, america's second largest city, saw a record on sunday of over ten centimetres of rain. there is disruption on the roads, mud slides and flooding. this is the effect of what is being

called the pineapple express, an atmospheric stream of moisture stretching across the pacific and it's causing chaos in southern california. in some hilly areas people have been ordered to evacuate. this home in a suburb of la slid down a hill and was completely destroyed. oh, my gosh. it was like thunder, like... and then the sound of trees, i thought, snapping like twigs. it was just this house, completely disintegrating. the los angeles fire department has told people to stay away from rivers and moving water. this man had to be winched to safety after he went into a river to rescue his dog. we anticipate the rains for a couple of more days, but note that we are not standing alone in our city. i have been in regular communication with our governor, vice—president harris has reached out to us to let us know on the federal level and on the state level they are there,

they are with us, they are standing by and will be helpful with anything we need. the roads in the sepulveda basin were completely flooded, a man had to be pulled from this car by rescuers after he jumped on the bonnet and flagged for help. across the state, beaches are deserted and businesses have shut up. residents say they have seen nothing like it since the 19805. roads have collapsed and driving conditions are treacherous. i tried to grip on it and i felt the car starting to, you know, swerve around and that's when the guy hit me and i completely swerved around. forecasters say heavy rain with life—threatening flash flooding will continue into today. people are being warned not to venture out. aruna iyengar, bbc news, california. the time is 13:15. our top story this afternoon... warm wishes from around the world for the king as he is treated for cancer — rishi sunak says he's "thankful" that it was "caught early". and coming up... the hundreds of people queuing

for an nhs dentist in bristol. coming up on bbc news... before they meet on sunday for real, the super bowl�*s opening night brings together the kansas city chiefs and san francisco 49ers as the week's preamble to the big game gets up and running in las vegas. a year after the devastating earthquakes that hit southern turkey and northern syria killing more than 50,000 people, there is anger that some of those who survived are still living in makeshift and dangerous conditions. people gathered in what remains of the city of antakya early this morning to mark the moment the first quake struck. 0ur correspondent anna foster reported from southern turkey a year ago, and joins us from there now. even after 12 months of intensive

work here, huge swathes of southern turkey still look like this. you can see the damage in many places, the rubble untouched from how it was in the early hours of february the 6th a year ago. that is why, as you say, huge frustration and anger from people who survived the quake that they still don't have proper homes to live in. i havejust been they still don't have proper homes to live in. i have just been at another protest where people are passionate about the fact they are living in tents and containers and they have no hope of any time soon of getting replaced newly built homes. they are part of many people across this part of southern turkey whose lives were changed forever a year ago. mohammed lost everything on the night of the earthquake. his parents, his home and his right arm and leg. a year later, he's active and full of energy. luckily, he's too young to remember much of the ordeal he went through. mohammed was the much loved first

and only child of hasar, a pharmacist, and ahmad, who was an engineer. they fled from syria to turkey to escape the war. 0n the early morning of the 6th, mohammed and his family were asleep in their flat on the third floor of the building. and when the earthquake happened, the power of it destroyed the whole thing. each of those floors collapsed down into the one below, leaving just a huge pile of rubble. and mohammed was only found by rescuers five days later, wrapped in his father's arms. since then, he's had hours of operations to try and repair his broken body. without a family, a succession of activists have taken care of him. right now, he's with jummah haidar, a doctor who works in a refugee camp. translation: there are some difficulties. sometimes he gets angry

and cries, then starts banging his head on the floor. but in general, he is a social kid. he behaves the same way anyone his age would. he sleeps and plays like any other child. mostly he crawls on his arm and leg. his struggle will grow with him when he sees people walking on their feet while he only has one or using their arms while he can't. mohammed has just one surviving relative, his aunt manal, who was in saudi arabia when the quake happened. but local turkish laws mean she struggled to take him out of the country or return herself to look after him. and that makes his future an uncertain one. the city of antakya where mohammed lived was one of the worst hit areas. 85% of its infrastructure was destroyed. homes, schools, hospitals gone. the clean—up is still going on.

more than 300,000 new homes were promised, but less than a quarter have been built. the government says the scale of the task is making reconstruction slow. a year after the earthquake, mohammed remains a young boy surrounded by tragedy, a small example of the devastation that's still felt here every day. anna foster, bbc news, southern turkey. a queue of hundreds of people built up in bristol yesterday of people trying to register at a new nhs dental surgery. police were needed to manage the crowds. the dentists' union said it was the perfect snippet of the situation across the country. danjohnson is in the saint paul's area of bristol. yes, this is that dentist and these

are those people. many of them who were in the queue yesterday have had to come back today because there were so many people theyjust couldn't get them all registered. apparently they did register about 800 people yesterday but there is so much demand. i think the key we have seen around the block and down the street symbolises the struggle so many people are having getting to see a dentist. because so many dental professionals have left the industry all have switched to doing more private work, simply because the nhs contracts don't pay them enough to meet the high level of demand. so in this queue there are people who say they haven't seen a dentist at least for the last year, since this one close. some haven't seen a dentist for many, many years and haven't been able to get an appointment since before the pandemic, they say they need is very intense. the queue has moved a little bit quicker this morning, the numbers have gone down a little bit on the police have been here at times and there is security on hand to manage things as well. it shows

you the level of demand is intense, people have been calling for a dentist in this area and a community group has had to work really hard to put this in place. the department of health says appointments were up 23% stake, more than 2.5 million people more patients who had been seen, it spent £3 billion on nhs dental care across england but still, i think this symbolises it is not enough to see everyone. this symbolises it is not enough to see everyone-— this symbolises it is not enough to seeeve one. . see everyone. thank you, dan johnson there. spanish farmers have begun protesting against what they say are excessive eu regulations and a lack of government support. they claim non—eu countries are undercutting them. it's the latest in a series of demonstations that have spread across a number of countries including france, italy and belgium. 0ur correspondent guy hedgecoe reports from this morning's demonstration in northern spain. horns blaring. this was a small town a couple of miles north of madrid today. these scenes were repeated in many

other rural areas of the country. spain's farmers have similar grievances to their counterparts in france, belgium, italy and other countries who have been protesting recently. they say the sanitary and environmental regulations imposed by the eu are too strict, drowning them in red tape and pushing up the cost. translation: the in red tape and pushing up the cost. translation:— translation: the cost when it comes to roducin: translation: the cost when it comes to producing wheat _ translation: the cost when it comes to producing wheat and _ translation: the cost when it comes to producing wheat and barley - translation: the cost when it comes to producing wheat and barley are - to producing wheat and barley are very high. you have got to pay for fertiliser, pesticides and fuel. it is killing us, we have to pay high prices and get it we sell at a low prices. we have to undergo a lot of controls, _ we have to undergo a lot of controls, a lot of regulations, says this farmen — controls, a lot of regulations, says this farmer-— this farmer. and products from non-eu countries _ this farmer. and products from non-eu countries are - this farmer. and products from non-eu countries are not - this farmer. and products from - non-eu countries are not subjected non—eu countries are not subjected to those same controls. eu regulations and rising costs are not the only grievances of spanish farmers, they have long complained that the country's vast and sparsely

populated rural heartland has been ignored and underfunded by the country's politicians. many areas of the country are suffering a drought which is stunting harvests. pharmacy the climate is yet another obstacle. translation: in the climate is yet another obstacle. translation:— the climate is yet another obstacle. translation: ,, ., �* ., translation: in spain, we don't have the same climate _ translation: in spain, we don't have the same climate as _ translation: in spain, we don't have the same climate as the _ translation: in spain, we don't have the same climate as the rest _ translation: in spain, we don't have the same climate as the rest of- the same climate as the rest of europe. with spain being much of a desert, we shouldn't have to follow the same rules as other countries. the protests are expected to continue over the coming weeks with farmers planning to drive their tractors into madrid later this munch. —— month. a fossil discovered on the isle of skye has been found to be a unique type of rare flying reptile that lived more than 160 million years ago. the wings, shoulders, legs and backbone of the newly—named ceoptera were first found in a rock on a beach in 2006. it's taken thousands of hours of painstaking work

to expose the fossil which is encased in limestone. it's the second type of flying reptile, known as pterosaur, found on skye. the actor michaelj fox became a huge star at a young age — with roles on major us comedy shows and in the 19805 smash hit film back to the future. but at the height of his fame, before he was 30, he was diagnosed with parkinson's. now 62, he continued acting untiljust a few years ago — alongside raising money and awareness of the progressive neurological condition, for which there is no cure. now he's up for a bafta award for the documentary about his life, �*still�*. tom brook has been to meet him. 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 19805, 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 ii. 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. ready, and... action! 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. tom brook, bbc news, new york.

more now on our main story now — the news of the king's cancer diagnosis. our correspondent duncan kennedy has been speaking to people in windsor. symbolism, tradition and continuity. in windsor, it was royal business as usual today. the changing of the guards brought out the crowds and their reactions to the news about king charles. it is really sad, but he's going through a bad patch, i think. we wish him well. we wish him really well. i was quite upset, actually, it wasn't expected, or was it? i suppose he'll carry on as long as he can. we wish him well, hopefully. a speedy recovery and, yeah, all the best and hopefully he can come out fighting and _ back to life again. this town has royalty baked into its ancient dna. king charles is everywhere. amir runs one of the local

souvenir shops and wanted to pass on his good wishes. i wish him good health and he gets well soon. windsor�*s mayor recently had lunch with the king and says people will relate to the cancer diagnosis. i think most people have been touched by this kind of news at some point in their family cycle of life. i think people can emphasise perhaps with how they are feeling. ijust hope his majesty recovers and recovers well. there are signs that the rest of the royal family are trying to carry on as normal throughout all this. the princess royal is holding an investiture ceremony here at the castle today and prince william returns to public duties for the first time in the month with another investiture ceremony here tomorrow. king charles will step aside from his public royal duties, but buckingham palace says he hopes to return as soon as possible. duncan kennedy, bbc news, windsor. time for a look at the weather, here's elizabeth rizzini.