guidance will make. the education minister gillian keegan shared her thoughts on the new guidance. i think, to be honest, that this will be successful because where it has been successful, you can see, and many people say, the improvement in behaviour, the improvement in performance, the improvements in the whole school culture is really tangible. so i think many, many head teachers want to do this and this helps empower them to do it. and we're not the first country in the world, other countries have done this as well, but what we want to do is be consistent and ensure consistency across our schools and reset that social norm. but geoff barton, from the association of school and college leaders, said the government should be focusing on other, more urgent situations facing schools. i think there is a little bit of a sense of deja vu all over again, of a government that wants to seem like it's saying something powerful but largely if it wants to say something powerful, could they do it on the

things that matter? funding, special needs, the need for us to stop crumbling schools? all of those things are the big issues for parents rather than something about mobile phones in schools yet again. let's speak to rachael thomas, a headteacher in pembrokeshire who's seen herself the impact phones in school has had. thank you forjoining us. you've probably got the sympathy of parents everywhere who only have to deal with one child and you've got many. how do you deal with it? we with one child and you've got many. how do you deal with it?— how do you deal with it? we took this action _ how do you deal with it? we took this action in _ how do you deal with it? we took this action in september - how do you deal with it? we took this action in september of - how do you deal with it? we took this action in september of 2023| how do you deal with it? we took. this action in september of 2023 in response to a number of issues that were making myjob and a lot of the staff'sjob is a were making myjob and a lot of the staff's job is a lot were making myjob and a lot of the staff'sjob is a lot more challenging, and the primary reason for doing it was safeguarding

children, their teaching and learning and behaviour and to improve everyone's wellbeing. eight different schools _ improve everyone's wellbeing. eight different schools have different ways of doing this at the moment, what is yours? we ways of doing this at the moment, what is yours?— what is yours? we are in old age school, what is yours? we are in old age school. so _ what is yours? we are in old age school, so three _ what is yours? we are in old age school, so three to _ what is yours? we are in old age school, so three to 16, _ what is yours? we are in old age school, so three to 16, so - school, so three to 16, so implemented this policy on our campus for years seven to year 11, so we changed the school day. because in a secondary school, children don't always ends up in the same classroom at the end of the day as at the start, so we started by having a ten minutes wellbeing check it in the morning where we check phones, check that uniformity equipments, etc, and tightly at the end of the day we have a four period where they receive their phones back and other things happen in that form period as well. we went to consultation with all stakeholders, parents, pupils and the local authority to do that.-

parents, pupils and the local authority to do that. how did the --uils authority to do that. how did the mails feel _ authority to do that. how did the pupils feel about _ authority to do that. how did the pupils feel about it? _ authority to do that. how did the pupils feel about it? they - authority to do that. how did the pupils feel about it? they don't i pupils feel about it? they don't need the phone during the day, realistically? it need the phone during the day, realistically?— need the phone during the day, realistically? it was a mix, some --uils realistically? it was a mix, some popiis are _ realistically? it was a mix, some pupils are grateful _ realistically? it was a mix, some pupils are grateful for _ realistically? it was a mix, some pupils are grateful for is - realistically? it was a mix, some pupils are grateful for is doing i pupils are grateful for is doing that. some children would like to do whatever they like to do but others respond well to having rules and boundaries in place as well. the response that we see from them, the physical response, is that when they come in the morning they are on their phones prior to the well—being check, not speaking to each other, sitting around looking at phones and as soon as the phones are gone, they are interacting, going outside and playing football or joining are interacting, going outside and playing football orjoining clubs, etc and socialising with one another, which is a great. and engagement in lessons and punctuality to lessons has been significantly improved. the reason we're talking _ significantly improved. the reason we're talking about _ significantly improved. the reason we're talking about this _ significantly improved. the reason we're talking about this today - significantly improved. the reason we're talking about this today is i we're talking about this today is because the government guidance, and

we heard different views on how useful that is. is it something you welcome? ~ �* useful that is. is it something you welcome? �* , useful that is. is it something you welcome? ~ �* ~ ., , ., welcome? we're in wales so we have some different _ welcome? we're in wales so we have some different guidance. _ welcome? we're in wales so we have some different guidance. yes, - welcome? we're in wales so we have some different guidance. yes, it's - some different guidance. yes, it's england-only _ some different guidance. yes, it's england-only guidance _ some different guidance. yes, it's england-only guidance today. - some different guidance. yes, it's england-only guidance today. we | some different guidance. yes, it's - england-only guidance today. we have resented england-only guidance today. we have presented locally _ england-only guidance today. we have presented locally to _ england-only guidance today. we have presented locally to our _ england-only guidance today. we have presented locally to our head - presented locally to our head teachers to the local council and the local authority are looking at a directive to follow suit of what we're doing because the evidence that i can provide for the positive impact this has brought about. i impact this has brought about. i think what i was wondering really is is it ever the sort of thing where a one size fits all solution works or, as a head teacher, do you prefer it to be something you can control yourself? i to be something you can control ourself? ~' , ,., j, yourself? i think everybody's context is — yourself? i think everybody's context is different - yourself? i think everybody's context is different and - yourself? i think everybody's context is different and i - yourself? i think everybody's context is different and i seei yourself? i think everybody's i context is different and i see in the guidance head teachers do have

the guidance head teachers do have the autonomy to implement it to suit their context. even within pembrokeshire, with eight secondary schools here and everyone's context is very different and turns of demographics and the relationship with parents in the community. on this campus, we have 430 children, so possibly the logistics of putting it into operation is probably slightly easier than some places but i think it's just making sure that you can engage all stakeholders and get the support of a particularly parents, that is key to getting it done. forsome parents, that is key to getting it done. for some parents, there is another school with 1700 pupils, so the challenges would be different but i do think it is achievable in all schools. sushi thank you joining us.

let's look at ukraine now. this week marks the second anniversary of the start of the war, and as russian forces make advances in the east, there are concerns over what a third year of conflict may bring. 0ur correspondent andrew harding has returned to the town of lyman, close to the front line, to find out how people there are feeling. how do you judge the mood of a country this big and this broken? we've come back to a frontline town — lyman — a place seized by russian forces and then liberated by ukraine back in 2022. since then, the closest frontlines have remained just up the road. this was aleksander a year ago with his cats. aleksander? yes. andrew from bbc. today he's still here. "yes, i remember you," he says. he shows me the wreckage of his old apartment block, hit by russian missiles. and he says he sees this war differently now.

i want peace, peace, peace. so has your opinion changed? changed — many changed. so this is interesting. he's changed his opinion over the course of the last year. before, he said ukraine had to win this war. now he's saying there's been too much death, too much suffering. he wants talks, even if it means giving up land. peace is more important than victory. you can feel the weariness on the streets of lyman. british aid distributed here, mostly to pensioners, who ignore the sound of another explosion on the front lines. "0ur youth are being exterminated." "if this continues, there'll be no ukraine left," says nadezhda. "this war will go on for a long time yet," says pasha. but it's not all gloom here. council workers are out doing what they can and a younger generation isjust

getting on with life. school is mostly online, but not entirely. "i've got everything i need," she says. a year ago, we found families hiding from the war in these cellars. and today, the dmitrichenko family are still here. but there's regular electricity now — waterfrom a pump outside, and irina, an accountant, is quietly determined. "we're waiting for victory," she says. "we are all tired, but i don't see how we can negotiate with murderers." still, lyman's mayor is worried that america will stop supplying weapons to the ukrainian troops protecting his town. "we're fighting a monster," says aleksander.

"so we need more outside military help. 0ur soldiers are doing their best, but they're running out of guns and ammunition." this small town feels torn between determination and despair. what unites it now is sheer exhaustion, the knowledge that this war will not be quickly won, and increasingly, the fear that ukraine's fate may yet be decided by foreign politicians in faraway capitals. andrew harding, bbc news in eastern ukraine. two police officers have been disciplined in connection with a whatsapp message relating to the fatal knife attacks on three people in nottingham lastjune. the force described the texts as crude and distasteful. 0ur reporter aruna iyengar has more. the two 19—year—old students, barnaby webber and grace 0'malley—kumar,

and school caretaker ian coates were stabbed to death by valdo calocane in june last year. there was disbelief from their relatives when calocane received a sentence of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. the deaths shocked the country and united a city. now, the families have found out officers in nottinghamshire police shared an inappropriate whatsapp message about the killings in the days after the incident. this was also shared with people outside the police force. last night, nottinghamshire police defended themselves, saying they took immediate action when they found out about the message. a disciplinary hearing was held injanuary, but they admitted that some of the words in the message were crude and distasteful, adding that all officers have been reminded of the appropriate use of whatsapp as a result of this misconduct hearing. 0ne officer is being dealt with in what's described as a management intervention. another has been given

a final warning. the mother of barnaby webber, emma, said it was an abhorrent way to conduct an investigation and said the families hadn't been made aware of this data breach. she's previously criticised the police investigation and spoke about her concerns to breakfast last month. it's also the failings of the police to investigate and act accordingly up to the attacks and also the investigation of the case we've got real concerns about, and the way that we've been managed by the cps. nottinghamshire police say no other officers were found guilty of misconduct. the families of the three victims are calling for a public inquiry into the handling of the case. there are 7.6 million people on the nhs waiting list in england but the true scale of the backlog is likely to be much higher. that's because a significant number of people are stuck on so called

hidden waiting lists, where they have started treatment but are still waiting for vital ongoing care for conditions such as cancer, heart failure and eye disease. here's our health correspondent dominic hughes. rigby! come on, sit. good boy. margaret is living with the knowledge she has skin cancer and yet has not had any treatment for years. good boy! she was diagnosed and referred to see a specialist, but then nothing. the waiting has taken a toll. you can hit really low spots. i think my kids and my grandchildren, my husband as well, they're what keep me going because i think i would have given up before now. you think, i can't do it any more. every month we report on the latest waiting times for non—urgent treatment in the nhs in england. currently that figure is around 7.6 million people.

but once you've been referred to a specialist, you're no longer counted on that main nhs waiting list. and you could end up like margaret, one of potentially tens of thousands of people who are waiting for follow—up treatment. now that could be things like physiotherapy, cancer checks, regular treatment to help preserve eyesight, even surgery. it's not known exactly how many people are facing delays on these hidden waiting lists, as nhs england doesn't collect the figures. every month around 1.4 million people are taken off the national waiting list because they've started treatment. we contacted 30 of the biggest hospital trusts in england, around a quarter of the total, to ask whether they keep a check on that backlog of delayed care. but only three trusts could provide us with data showing they were recording the number of patients affected. there are patients who might have chronic conditions, which could, if they were left untreated, deteriorate further. so, for example, patients

with certain kinds of eye diseases where they might lose their sight. it's very difficult to get an idea of the number of patients who are waiting for overdue appointments. it's not quite clear which hospitals record it and which ones don't. so really we have no idea. but i would guess that it's in the millions. a spokesman for nhs england says there's clear guidance that if a treatment becomes overdue and a patient is left waiting, they should be added back onto the waiting list and would then be included in the nationalfigures. when she had a stroke a few years ago, margaret experienced the very best of the nhs's emergency care. but now waiting months for treatment, she feels trapped and anxious. the emergency services are great, but anything else? i'm terrified. you know, it's one of those things now, when something else goes wrong. when you're young and healthy, you don't think about these things, but when things start going wrong,

it is frightening. the story of the d—day landings has been told in films, tv programmes and books, and now an army of volunteers are hoping to knit their way into history. more than 1,000 people all over the world are crocheting different scenes from the invasion to commemorate its 80th anniversary. 0ur reporterjohn maguire has been chatting to some of them. we're well used to seeing wars commemorated in bronze and in stone, but not perhaps in wool and yarn. it all started with these, postbox toppers knitted or crocheted for major royal, sporting or national events. so for a brit living in northern france, the idea to mark 80 years since d—day took shape. and i thought, why don't i do a topper for my garden gate for the 80th anniversary? and then i mentioned it

to someone and they said, "what a great idea." and then we decided, we'll do my front wall. and then itjust sort of like suddenly got bigger and it suddenly went along the lines of the bayeaux tapestry and ended up as 80 metres representing 80 years and the 80 days of the normandy battle before they got through to paris. so that's in a nutshell how it all started. but she needed an army of volunteers which, after seeing her idea online, all signed up to help. among them, diana and jenny, old school friends who've reconnected in recent years and are sharing the workload on two panels. it's work that's taken more than 800 hours so far. this scene depicts a real soldier, harry kulkowitz, and his signals unit listening in to german army phone calls after landing on d—day. they're intercepting. they're attaching another wire that's going to be hooked up to the radio. and then harry's listening in to try and hear what

the germans are saying. they've been inspired by the creative challenge, but also their own family stories. my father—in—law was in the tank corps. i picked the the tank panel in memory of him. i mean, he survived the war, but obviously has now died. and, you know, it's very close to my heart. my husband's grandfather and uncle were killed in the australian army in the war in asia. so in fact you feel again, we shouldn't forget. so it was quite a good way of keeping people's memories alive. the detail is painstaking. in the original first panel we did was british soldiers and we'd done about a0 of these soldiers and we'd put them all in brown boots. and then we discovered through the historian who's with us that actually they should have all been black. so then we had to go round and change all the black boots. so a bit of a pain!

many of the 80 scenes are derived from the war movie the longest day. so this project is called the longest yarn. like the invasion force, the knitters come from all over the world. robin is in virginia in the us and her panel is also based on a real person. his name is corporal waverly woodson. he was wounded coming into 0maha beach, and he was one of the only all african american battalion to come ashore early on 0maha beach. i wanted to represent him and i am. reed is an american living in germany and chose to depict the massive logistical effort behind the allied invasion. again, influenced by a family story. my grandfather was involved in the european theatre, but he was down in the persian gulf. he worked with supply lines,

so doing all of the ships getting loaded up felt like kind of a cool project. and so with a little more research and suggestions from other people in the group, i've actually learned a ton of history about the events just from other people in the group. the eighty panels will be dismantled, then reassembled and stitched together in normandy. tansey is hoping for more help with the logistics. the finished work will go on display in may and a large church in carentan, the scene of a fierce battle in 19114. so give me an idea of how long that would take to make. well, probably about three days, sort of doing it probably six hours a day. just a little thing like that. at her home in dorset, lyn's creating large items that will decorate the french town's shops and businesses. i've learnt so much about history and all sorts since i've been doing this and also my grandchildren come in and they say to me, "oh,

nanny, what's that?" and they're learning so much. a learning curve for all of us because we never want it forgotten. in the autumn, the longest yarn may then come to the uk and there's been interest from the united states. but this labour of love telling the extraordinary story of d—day will first see the light of day, the longest day, in normandy. it was a big night for the film oppenheimer at the baftas, it won seven awards including best film and director, as well as leading actor for cillian murphy. but the biggest grossing movie of last year, barbie, didn't get any love in the end. they had five nominations and came away with none. our culture editor katie razzall was there. last night, london was a who's who of the film world. britain and america united

to celebrate movies, with the irish out in force. all in front of the world's photographers, and the president of bafta — the prince of wales. this red carpet is heaving with the kind of star power only the biggest night of the british film calendar can deliver. a night to celebrate talent on screen and behind the camera here in britain and across the world. it is no exaggeration to say this room has in it the greatest actors in the world. yes. inside the royal festival hall, master of ceremonies, david tennant, got down to business. right. let's give out some baftas. a night of laughter, but also emotion, particularly when da'vinejoy randolph picked up best supporting actress for playing mary lamb, a bereaved mother and school cook in the holdovers. there have been countless marys throughout history, who have never got a chance to wear a beautiful gown and stand on this stage here in london.

best actress went to emma stone for poor things. the frankenstein—style fantasy walked away with five awards in all. i really want to just thank my mom because she's the best person i know in the whole world. and she inspires me every single day. and stone beat, amongst others, margot robbie. barbie, the biggest—grossing movie of the year, was entirely snubbed at the baftas. bradley cooper's maestro and martin scorsese's killers of the flower moon also walked away with nothing. the zone of interest. instead, a british film in german, about the holocaust triumphed. the zone of interest picked up three awards. best sound, 0utstanding british film and film not in english. the award for rising star went to mia mckenna—bruce, whose performance in how to have sex has won so much praise. to kind of get to do the thing that i love most in the whole entire world, and people be like, "yeah, that's kind of cool." it's amazing. cillian murphy.

murphy's acclaimed director, christopher nolan, had never won a bafta. oppenheimer, his film about the father of the atomic bomb, now has seven — including best actor. one man's monster is another man's hero. and that's why i love movies, because we have a space to celebrate and interrogate and investigate that complexity. oompa loompa. doompa—dee—dee... wonka's hugh grant riffed on his character. ..now the best director cate—gor—ee. christopher nolan, oppenheimer. it's an incredible honour being back home, getting this from bafta - in the festival hall, _ where my mum and dad used to drag me to make me have some culture. michaelj fox, diagnosed with parkinson's disease 30 years ago, got a standing ovation. it can change your day. it can change your outlook. sometimes, it can even change your life.

in a surprise appearance, he handed out the biggest award — best film. oppenheimer. oppenheimer�*s night to celebrate — a night that mayjust be repeated at the oscars in three weeks. now it's time for a look at the weather with carol. hello again. as we go through this week, the weather will turn a bit cooler, but temperatures will be closer to where we would expect them at this time of year. what we have at the moment is the back edge of that weather front clearing away and a ridge of high pressure builds in behind it, settling things down before the next few weather fronts come our way. so into the afternoon, a lot of dry weather, a fair bit of sunshine, some scattered showers and a bit more cloud turning the sunshine hazy in the west before this weather front comes in, introducing some rain later. temperatures 8 to 1a degrees north to south. so down a little on yesterday, but still above average for this time of year. now through this evening and overnight, ourfirst weather front comes in from the west, pushes eastwards across scotland.

then the second one comes in, bringing in more rain, strengthening winds and more cloud. the far southeast, though, remaining fairly clear. this is where it will be coolest, especially in east anglia, with overnight lows around about 4 degrees. so that takes us into tomorrow. a weather front will come in from the northwest and continue to push steadily southwards and eastwards. as you can see from the iso bars, it's going to be quite a breezy day as well, but a wet one initially across scotland and northern ireland, with that band of rain continuing to sweep southwards into england and wales, followed by sunny spells and scattered showers and preceded by a fair bit of cloud and some bright spells. temperatures, 8 in lerwick to 1a in london. then as we move on into wednesday, things change a touch in that we've got some heavy rain pushing northwards and eastwards, some snow in the hills of wales, northern england and scotland. and as the rain clears,

we see a return to bright spells, sunshine and showers. but it's going to be widely windy, with strong gale force winds across the north of scotland and also into the northern and western isles. but temperatures still round about the 11 to 13 mark. but that will change. as we lose the south—westerly, we pull in more of a northwesterly from thursday, friday and into the weekend. so temperatures dipping back to where roughly we would expect them to be. now, on thursday, we've got this band of rain sweeping towards the east. it may linger longer in the south of england. behind it, we'll see some wintry showers, most of these in the hills, but you could see some sleet or even some hail at lower levels. but the temperatures going down for most — 6 in lerwick to 10 in hull, 12 in london.

live from london. this is bbc news alexei navalny�*s widow yulia accuses vladimir putin over her husbands's death in custody. a member of israel's war cabinet warns the military will launch a ground offensive in rafah in three weeks, unless hamas releases israeli hostages in gaza. if by ramadan hostages are not home, the fighting will continue everywhere — to include rafah area. new guidance for headteachers in england on how to stop pupils using mobile phones at school. the bafta goes to... oppenheimer. and oppenheimer is the big winner at the baftas, taking home seven prizes,

including best film. hello. within the next hour, alexei navalny�*s widow yulia will meet eu foreign ministers, who are holding talks in brussels. before the meeting, she said that vladimir putin had killed her husband, because he couldn't break him. and that she wants to help build a free russia. the ministers are expected to ask for new sanctions against moscow, after the sudden death last week of mr navalny, russia's most prominent opposition leader. the eu's top diplomat, josep burrell, told the bbc that a message of support must be sent to the people of russia, who want to live in freedom. the kremlin has accused foreign politicians of making �*vulgar�* comments about the death of mr navalny, whose mother has been refused access to his body for a third day. his representatives say she was not allowed to enter the mortuary

near the remote arctic prison where he died.