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at six — the king is seen in public for the first time since his cancer diagnosis. he was driven to buckingham palace and then flew by helicopter with the queen to sandringham. and prince harry has flown in from california this afternoon to be by his father's
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side, despite months
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but what happens quite quickly after a cancer diagnosis is a treatment path emerges.
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with his family on christmas day at sandringham. the king is now back here. for the time being, out of the public eye to concentrate on his recovery. daniela relph, bbc news. our reporterjanine machin is outside sandringham for us. any details about how long he is likely to stay? we any details about how long he is likely to stay?— any details about how long he is likely to stay? we don't have that detail et likely to stay? we don't have that detail yet but _ likely to stay? we don't have that detail yet but i _ likely to stay? we don't have that detail yet but i can _ likely to stay? we don't have that detail yet but i can tell— likely to stay? we don't have that detail yet but i can tell you - likely to stay? we don't have that detail yet but i can tell you that l detail yet but i can tell you that the king and queen landed just before liz30pm in some pretty awful weather and the royal standard is now flying to show that the king is in residence. this is a place that the royalfamily in residence. this is a place that the royal family clearly feel very comfortable. it is where they traditionally spend christmas and a few weeks after that andy king interrupted that in order to go to london for that prostate treatment. afterwards, he came back to sandringham to convalesce and he was seen leaving the church service on the estate on sunday morning, waving to the crowds who so often gather here for a glimpse of the royal family. they very much feel like the
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royal family is part of the community here. yes, the estate is open to the public but we are surrounded by woodland, just a few minutes away from the norfolk coast. once this visitor centre closes, the tourists go and the local dog walkers go and it becomes very quiet and private and perhaps that is part of the reason why the king has chosen to spend some of the coming weeks at sandringham as he goes through the treatment. one other bit of news i can share with you is that we understand there are no plans for the duke of sussex to meet with his brother, the prince of wales, during his visit to london. that is a piece of news i can share with you this evening. of news i can share with you this evenina. . ~ of news i can share with you this evenina. ., ~ ,, of news i can share with you this evenina. . ~ ,, ., of news i can share with you this evenina. . ~' ,, ., ., of news i can share with you this evenina. . ~ ,, ., ., , the king has said he remains wholly positive about his treatment for cancer. at lunchtime, i went to meet some people who are already being treated for cancer at a support group in west london, to ask them how important a positive attitude is, and how hard it is to maintain. it is a shock and certainly
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in the first days, one's head goes into a complete spin and you don't know which way is up. but gradually, you just kind of accept and go day by day for what is next. no ifs, buts or maybes. it is hard. it is something that i hope no one else goes through that i know, or anyone, you know, that has to get the news that they are terminally ill. it is horrible. how difficult is it to remain positive? it isn't until you go through a major life event, whether it is cancer or whatever, you go through an event where you experience it enough for it to kind of wake you up, in a way. it is almost as if i see things in sharper focus. colours are brighter. i appreciate things a lot more, even though i always had what they call an attitude of gratitude. when i was first diagnosed, i thought, it is not - going to beat me, i am going to beat this. -
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ijust stayed really positive - and people have seen how positive i am and i definitely think it does help with your recovery. - does it change your outlook on life? you appreciate life a lot more. you appreciate other people in more difficult circumstances. you become more tenderhearted. you philosophise a bit more and you adjust to the fact that life isn't forever. i do things sort of out of my comfort zone. i like last summer, i abseiled down the cheese grater building - to raise money for maggies. and that was just i absolutely fantastic. i loved it! once you are ill, i think you appreciate more. even seeing a robin redbreast fly, it is so cheerful. it is great to see. i take life moment by moment, not even day by day because 2a hours is not guaranteed to anybody.
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the thoughts of some of the people at a support group today in west london run by the charity maggies. the rest of the news now. it has emerged that the government is preparing to offer dentists cash incentives to take on nhs patients in england, amid a shortage of dental practices. it comes as hundreds of people have been queuing for the second day in a row to try to register at a new nhs dental practice in bristol. yesterday, the police were called in to manage the crowds. tonight, bbc news has seen details of government plans to make nhs dentistry in england more widely available. more on that in a moment but first from bristol, danjohnson sent this report. this is the queue that symbolises the struggle to see the dentist right across england. i don't know how long it's going to be. and many, like adima, are back here for a second day. we can't even get seen. my children haven't been to the dentist since before covid. it's ridiculous. and then i go to sign up to other ones in bristol, there's no dentists.
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this is kind of broken britain personified, isn't it, really? desperate people queueing. it's like soviet britain. he was here yesterday as well. they needed bouncers because this area has been so short of dentists since this practice closed last summer. shirley and mary were braced for a long wait. i've only got seven! the rest are in my pocket! there they are. it is notjust dentists. it is hospitals, schools, education. lack of investment in the national health, basically. but there's a lot of people who worked very hard to get this open, so that is the positive. the problem is that dentists have been leaving the profession or switching to more lucrative private work because their nhs contracts don't seem to pay them enough to meet the rising demand. they have been lining up, queueing up since liz30am. the new dentist here registered 800 patients yesterday and they have got 5,000 much—needed places.
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simply put, they are desperate. i feel sad. my heart goes out to them. but there is only so much we can do and only so much we can offer. it is at breaking point, now, i think, or it's already broken. we are trying to fix it. after a few hours queueing, there is a smile on adima's face. yes! we have definitely got an appointment now! but many more are still waiting. a government plan to improve dentistry is on the way. danjohnson, bbc news, bristol. with more on that plan, i'm joined by our health editor hugh pym. it was not supposed to be published until tomorrow? that it was not supposed to be published until tomorrow?— untiltomorrow? that is right, of course, untiltomorrow? that is right, of course. this _ untiltomorrow? that is right, of course, this issue _ untiltomorrow? that is right, of course, this issue of _ untiltomorrow? that is right, of course, this issue of so-called i course, this issue of so—called dental deserts has been really going up dental deserts has been really going up in terms of its awareness around the country. mps putt post bags, we are told, are full of correspondence on the issue. in 2022, bbc reported that nine out of ten nhs dental practices in the uk were not taking
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on any new adult patients for treatment and that led to a parliamentary inquiry. yes, it has emerged today that the government will announce a plan to tackle some of these issues. tomorrow, a plan for england. it will apparently involve 2.5 million additional nhs treatment and appointments, funded by £200 million of investment, it is not clear to what extent that is new money, and dentists will be offered a golden hello to go and work in remote areas and offer nhs care. we will have to bait more details tomorrow but dental representatives we have spoken to so for don't seem entirely impressed with the detail. labour is saying all the problems are down to ia years of conservative neglect. are down to ia years of conservative ne . lect. . ~ are down to ia years of conservative neulect. ., ~ i. ., ., , new cctv images have been released showing the last known sighting of the man police suspect of using a corrosive substance to injure a mother and her two young girls in clapham. abdul ezedi is shown walking near blackfriars bridge and headed towards victoria embankment at around 10pm last wednesday.
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detectives are appealing for information, and say they still believe he is being helped by others. a jury at the old bailey has been shown dramatic police bodycam footage of the moment a mother, on the run with her newborn baby, was arrested in brighton last year. constance marten and her partner mark gordon refused to tell police officers where their newborn baby was. the couple are on trial for the manslaughter by gross negligence of their newborn baby girl, victoria. they both deny the charges. from the old bailey, daniel sandford reports. hello. sorry, mate. can you stop for a second? the moment when constance marten and mark gordon were finally arrested by police after seven and a half weeks of searching for them. put the stick down, drop it now. they were found in brighton last february, but the newborn baby that police were desperate to find, too, was nowhere to be seen. where's the child?
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where is the child? daddy bear! look at me. take him with you. all right. where's your child? though the officers keep asking about the missing baby, constance marten is calling out for mark gordon, or "daddy bear", as she calls him. mark gordon is also asked again and again where the baby is. but instead of answering, he asks for food. where's the child? where's my food, please? in a minute. where's the child? where's your child? in a minute. where's the child? the jury heard that it was a call from a member of the public that had eventually led to the arrest of mark gordon and constance marten. dale cooley had seen them at his local shops in brighton, had recognised them from the news and called 999. when police looked through cctv, they found pictures of constance marten earlier that night in the local post office, picking up a tin of food and putting it in herjacket. the tin fell to the floor and she replaced it.
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the prosecution says she had furniture stuffing inside her coat to keep her warm. they say the couple had been sleeping out on the south downs in freezing temperatures for seven weeks. when officers found baby victoria in a shopping bag in a shed on an allotment, she was dead. constance marten and mark gordon both deny gross negligence manslaughter. daniel sandford, bbc news, at the old bailey. a us court of appeal has ruled that donald trump does not have immunity from charges that he plotted to overturn his election defeat in 2020. judges rejected the claim that he couldn't be prosecuted because he was president at the time. he's likely to appeal to the supreme court. let's speak to gary o'donoghue in washington. how much of a setback is this for donald trump? sophie, this is the most serious of all the court cases that donald
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trump faces and today's decision is a massive blow for him. objectively he said, i shouldn't face prosecution for what i did as president, and the court said objectively all you are now in citizen trump and the prosecution can go ahead. his strategy all along has been to delay these cases and he will appeal to the supreme court and that could delay the start of any trial for several months ahead. the important thing to remember is if donald trump can delay this trial until after the election and he were to win the election, he could simply make the prosecution go away by directing his department ofjustice to drop it. if it happens beforehand and he is convicted, there are key figures, key voters in swing states, who are very unhappy about idea of electing a convicted felon. the timing is central to this election and the future of american politics. gary o'donoghue, thank you.
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our top story this evening. king charles is seen in public for the first time since his cancer diagnosis, as he heads with the queen to sandringham. and coming up — we will remember this day... cillian murphy on his hopes for oscar and bafta glory. and on bbc london... coming up on bbc news... they are the only british team left in the competition and chelsea women have drawn ajax in the champions league quarterfinal. it is the only trophy to have eluded manager emma hayes in her 11 years of the club. more than 50,000 people died a year ago in the devastating earthquakes that hit parts of turkey and syria. early this morning people gathered in what remains of the turkish city of antakya to mark the moment the first quake struck. our correspondent anna foster reported from southern turkey a year ago, and joins us from there now.
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anna. sophie, it isn'tjust the anna. sophie, it isn't “ust the landscape * anna. sophie, it isn't “ust the landscape that h anna. sophie, it isn'tjust the landscape that remains - anna. sophie, it isn'tjust the - landscape that remains devastated here. the people are as well, still living in fear whenever the ground shakes after lee thousands of aftershocks they have had in the last i2 months, but having endured a freezing turkish winter, many are living just in tents and container homes there is growing anger and frustration. i was at a protest earlier today when people were calling on the government to do more to keep their promises to rebuild homes which have been slow to materialise. the message from them was that a year after the earthquake, many people feel abandoned. now the rubble is going, the scars are clear to see. the city of antakya is a wasteland. more than 200,000 buildings were destroyed by the earthquake. and the work to clear and rebuild is still going on, even now.
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not everyone is able to move on. abu mustapha often returns to the place where he used to live. he managed to save his three youngest children but when their home fell, he lost sight of his teenage daughters, salma and salwa. "i told her, salma, get up, there's an earthquake. everybody woke up. we got out from the building gate here. i had my other children, lama and mustapha, with me, and i stood right here." now they are missing. for months, he has searched hospitals and cemeteries. when everything he owned was destroyed, the few pictures he had left of his girls became even more precious.
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"my wife passed away ia days before the earthquake. every time i go through difficult times, i go to her because i know where her grave is but i don't know where my daughters�* graves are, so i come here and talk to them." so much of this place was destroyed that even now, after a year of solid work, they still have not managed to clear away all of the destruction. hundreds of thousands of people left this area altogether, but for those who stayed, the difficulties are still all around them, every day, and the vast majority still don't have proper homes to live in. tents and container villages should have been temporary solutions. now, they are bedded in, more permanent than was ever intended. less than a quarter of the promised new homes have been built. antakya's old city had stood strong for centuries. it may never recover. but its people have vowed to.
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13—year—old zaliha remembers the night her life was saved. frightened and exhausted, the first rescue team who arrived said she was beyond help. but then, mersin city's fire department came and pulled her out. today, they are back together, reunited in the same city. there are thanks and hugs, and memories of how lucky their family was. across southern turkey, daily life remains a battle for the earthquake survivors who stayed here, and the last year has not dulled their pain or their suffering. anna foster, bbc news, antakya. eight million people across the uk on low incomes and means—tested benefits will receive £299 over the next fortnight to help with high bills and rising prices.
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it's the last planned cost of living payment from the government. charities are urging the chancellorjeremy hunt to consider more financial support in next month's budget. our cost of living correspondent colletta smith reports. winston's waiting for his final cost of living payments to land. every five minutes, i'm looking on my phone. has it gone in or has it gone in? as a low income pensioner, every penny counts. gas and electricity are eating up a third of his income at the moment. it helps in the short term. i'm not going to lie. if i looked on my phone and found that i had that now i would put most of that money on my utilities. so it might help me with a few bills into march. but in april i'm going to be struggling. at the hope food pantry, across town, almost every customer is waiting for their £299. sarah's money has arrived already, and she's used it to repay debts to friends and family and pay bills.
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it was good to know that we're going to be able to pay things off and we've been waiting for it. we've, i'd say to family and friends, can we borrow the money until the cost of living comes in? and so, yeah, it's been good to know that it's there as a bit of a reassurance. you can't apply for this money, it arrives automatically. so if you get a text or an email asking you to put in your details, don't do it. it's a scam. this £299 is the final cost of living payments and it will land directly into people's accounts from today up until the 22nd of february. it's for people on certain types of means tested benefits like universal credit, pension tax credit, child tax credits and jobseeker�*s allowance. it will bring the total payment per person this financial year to £900. the previous two payments arrived last april and last november. off work with a neurological problem, scott and his partner have depended on these payments to make sure the kids have enough to eat. it's just on the house and the food for the kids and energy to keep the house running.
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the government say inflation is falling and energy bills will drop again in april, but that's no comfort to scott as this last payment arrives. we get there with the help of other people and stuff like that. so it's hard. it's hard and it's scary, but it's the last one. unless the chancellor changes his mind in the budget next month, this is the last top—up payment for more than eight million of the poorest households. colletta smith, bbc news in manchester. and for tips on how to deal with your energy bill and plenty more, please go to the tackling it together section of the bbc news website at bbc.co.uk/news — or visit the bbc news app. this is a pterosaur — a flying reptile that lived around 168 million years ago. it's thought to have looked a bit like this — and probably had a wing—span of up to one and a half metres. well, now the fossil remains of a new species of pterosaur have been discovered on the isle of skye. the wings, shoulders, legs and backbone were found
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in a rock on a beach, and it's the second type of pterosaur found on skye. dr liz martin—silverstone, a palaeo—biologist at the university of bristol, was involved in identifying it. today, we havejust named a new pterosaur which is an extinct flying reptile that lived at the same time as dinosaurs, and we have named the new species called ceoptera evansae, which we are really excited about. it's from the isle of skye and it's a brand—new pterosaur that we've never seen before. our new pterosaur, ceoptera, we didn't expect to necessarily find on skye. previously this group of pterosaurs was mostly limited to china. well, scientists have named this unique species ceoptera evansae, after professor susan evans, who has spent years doing research on the isle of skye. very nicely they have named the specimen after me, partly because of that work and partly 50
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years on of working with small reptiles and amphibians from the fossil records, so it's an honour and it's very nice to be named in that way. professor evans. oppenheimer — the film about the physicist behind the atomic bomb — is leading the charge at both the baftas and the oscars. our culture editor katie razzall has been speaking to the film's lead, cillian murphy, who has been nominated for an oscar for the first time and is now gearing up for a busy awards season. hello! from dodging the undead in 28 days later... hello! to a murderous gangster in peaky blinders that made him and his haircut a household name. and i know what it means... and now the father of the atomic bomb. if the nazis have a bomb. when christopher nolan comes to you and says, i want you to play the theoretical physicist, oppenheimer, how do you know that you're going to be able to do it? i need to not know, and if i know instantly i can do that,
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i generally don't take the part, because then it doesn't represent any kind of challenge to me. and you never kind of fully know you've got it. you know, it's neverfinished, the process, you know. i had six months of preparation, and i went deep, deep into it, but i could have done that for another 18 months. oppenheimer and a team of scientists working for the us government created the bomb that was used controversially to end the second world war, a weighty subject for director christopher nolan. the three—hour—long epic was a huge box office success. his movies become like events. there's no—one else that does it like that. for some reason itjust clicked and people started going and it gained this momentum. and we were all on strike at the time, so we were just sort of texting each other, just watching this thing happen. you know, people come up to me in the street and say that they've seen the film four and five times, which isjust phenomenal and very flattering. are we saying there's a chance that when we push that button, we destroy the world?
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chances are near zero. near zero. what do you want from theory alone? zero would be nice. i think oppenheimer�*s story is a story of the 20th century, and i think it has to be entertaining primarily. but if it's provocative, and makes you think about what's happening in the world today, i think that's a really good bonus. over the last few years, but certainly last year and this year, we've seen the most incredible amount of success coming out of ireland, whether that's writers, actors. why now? irish people tell stories very well, i think, just in the pub to each other. we're good at it, we have a long history of it. it is kind of phenomenal the level of talent that the country is producing for, like, five million people. it's kind of extraordinary. and one of them has an oscar nomination for the first time. the world will remember this day. next month, cillian murphy mayjust bring that award home.
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katie razzall, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett. do not be deceived by the beach he is showing you. the weather is changing. we had the last of the mild weather across southern parts of england today, the temperature reached 13. today we had sunshine and lighter winds and much of scotland. in between the two we have this area of reintroducing heavy rains across the hills of wales. that will move southwards and push away the windy weather out of the way in the cold rain will move down from the north. we will find some snow falling in the north and west of scotland. widely something like 55 and eight centimetres of snow, could be more than that over the northern islands by tomorrow morning. frost over the whole of scotland and much of northern ireland and northern england as the
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cold rain moves in. heading into tomorrow many places will be dry with spells of sunshine. differences top and tail of the uk. the wintry showers continue on the far north of scotland and across the far south of england there may be some spots of rain and cloud around and temperature of 8—9. in the sunshine temperature of 8—9. in the sunshine temperature nearer six, seven celsius. so it's getting colder and then we have this area of low pressure coming in from the atlantic and the weather front hang around in the channel starts to move northwards into the colder air. while we are looking at the rain across much of wales, southern england and the midlands, as the wet weather moves northwards so we are going to find that rain turning to snow, particularly over the hills. we still have a yellow snow warning from the met office. a different area this time, moved away from the midlands and extended into northern ireland. a covering of snow across the low—lying areas but mostly significant snow will be falling
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over the hills and that will work its way

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