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this is bbc news. i'm julian worricker. the headlines at 11: the prime minister announces an extra £20 billion a year in real terms for the nhs — labour says it's not enough. we're making the nhs our priority, we're putting a significant amount of extra money into it. we need to make sure that money is spent wisely. we're saying you can go further and if the government made the taxation changes we are prepared to make, you could be giving even more to the nhs. so labour would be spending more on the nhs than the calls for a change in the law after the home office allows a boy with severe epilepsy to be treated with an illegal form of cannabis oil. the first of hundreds of migrants who've been the focus of a european dispute over immigration arrive in spain, more than a week after being rescued. and this is the scene live, as the aquarius, the ship that rescued the migrants off the coast of libya, has docked in valencia and those onboard wait to disembark. also, world cup holders germany
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start their defence, as they take on mexico. and brazil, the favourites to win the competition this time round, play their first game of the tournament, against switzerland. controversy in the world of golf, as officials decide not to disqualify phil mickelson after he deliberately hit a moving ball. and the us—north korea summit, brexit and yemen. all analysed in dateline london in half an hour — here on bbc news. good morning and welcome to bbc news. theresa may has announced new funding for the nhs in england. it will mean an extra £20 billion a year by the end of a five year plan. the prime minister said some of the funds would come from money
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the uk will no longer have to pay into the eu budget after brexit. but she hinted the rest may have to come from higher taxation. our health editor hugh pym has more details. with pressure mounting on the nhs, demands for a funding boost were intensifying. theresa may made it clear she wanted to come up for a long—term plan for the nhs in england, which remove the need for annual last—minute budget top ups. in recent weeks, there have been sometimes acrimonious talks between the health and social care secretary jeremy hunt, calling for significant funding increases and the chancellor, philip hammond. the new plan for nhs england covers the next five years. it will involve average annual increases of 3.4% in real terms. the budget for day—to—day running costs is around £115 billion this year. under the plan, there will be £20 billion more by 2023. theresa may says some of the funding will be found from money saved after brexit, and some probably from higher taxes. what i am announcing
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will mean that in 2023—24, there will be about £600 million a week, in cash, more in cash, going into the nhs. of course, we have got to fund that, that money. that will be through the brexit dividend. the fact that we are no longer sending vast amounts of money every year to the eu once we leave the eu, and we as a country will be contributing a bit more. the head of nhs england — simon stephens, said the multi—year settlement provided the funding needed to shape a long—term plan for key improvements in services. but the health foundation think tank argued it was not enough to address the fundamental challenges facing the nhs. hugh pym, bbc news. i'm joined now by anita charlesworth — director of research and economics at the health foundation. good morning. good morning. not enough to do everything be prime
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minister would like it to do. one of the real dilemmas around the nhs is that although this is a very substantial amount of money, £20 billion is a huge sum of money on any measure. that will reallyjust allow us to hold the service as it is, in terms of quality and access. the reason for that is we are going into a period now of a very rapidly ageing population, so over the five yea rs ageing population, so over the five years that this settlement covers, there is a million more over 65s. some on over 65 uses about three times much health care as a younger person. as we are getting to retirement age, more of us have complex health conditions which mean we are being admitted to hospital more, staying longer and it's harder to get people home. your organisation looked into these figures in detail. can you say how much more should be spent to go beyond what you just said? the money
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the prime minister has announced should be enough for things not to get any worse but if we actually wa nted get any worse but if we actually wanted a health service that was able to improve in areas like cancer, mental health and access to new drugs, then you'd be looking at something like 4% a year, which would have been at least £6 billion more. that suggests there needs to be prioritisation of the existing sums within the health service, in other words people have to make tough decisions about which elements matter more than others. tough decisions about which elements matter more than otherslj tough decisions about which elements matter more than others. i think this is a settlement that poses enormous challenge is that the nhs but also for politicians. because it isa but also for politicians. because it is a significant sum of money. it will probably require some increase in tax to fund that, so clearly the nhs needs to use every penny really wisely and that will require quite a lot of changes. at the moment, too many people are going into hospitals. we need to develop services in the community so they
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don't. for politicians, they need to be honest with the public. this is a lot of money buddy is a bonanza for the nhs. it doesn't mean suddenly we have everything could want. what about social care, alongside the nhs? the argument often is you bring these two together under one umbrella but if you don't find social care effectively, the knock—on effect on the nhs will be profound? we have seen that over the yea rs profound? we have seen that over the years as social care budgets have been cut and fewer older people are getting any help. you have more people then coming to a&e, needing to be admitted to hospital and very importantly, through this winter our hospitals have been full and they have been full in part with people who could go home, medically, but they need support in their home and by the nhs, in terms of community nurses and gps, but social care has a struggle looking after that number of people in their home. ok, thank you very much for coming in. more
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reaction to that to come. campaigners are calling for medicinal cannabis to be made legally available in the uk, after the home secretary intervened to help a 12—year—old suffering from epilepsy. sajid javid granted billy caldwell the right to use cannabis oil, after he was admitted to hospital with extreme seizures. billy's mother says he has responded well overnight to treatment, and she is now asking for a meeting with mrjavid to try to help other children. simonjones reports. a family's fight that they hope will benefit notjust billy caldwell, but others like him. on monday, they flew back into britain with cannabis oil they'd bought in canada to treat his epilepsy, but it contained an ingredient banned here. the drug, which has kept his seizures under control for almost a year, was confiscated. days later, he was back in hospital. the home secretary has now intervened, allowing billy to use the oil, but his mother has this message for sajid javid. i'm not going anywhere until this is put in place and this medicine is made accessible to all these other children who desperately need it.
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i'm asking sajid to please... i want to request a meeting with him in london as as soon as possible, preferably tomorrow. i want to sit down with him in a dignified and democratic way. sajid javid, though, has not announced a change in the law. but those who have been helping to care for billy caldwell believe mrjavid needs to go further. from here it is a ripple effect. this means to me that there is hope, for notjust billy, which is why this campaign is so important, because it's for all the families who need it. the family of six—year—old alfie dingley have appealed to the prime minister for the same access to cannabis treatment for his epilepsy, saying it would be cruel to delay it any further. some experts point out that the use of marijuana for medical conditions isn't always straightforward, and more trials are needed.
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billy has been granted a special 20—day licence for cannabis oil. what happens after that, and to others, is unclear. simon jones, bbc news. let's get more now on theresa may's announcement that there's to be a rescue ship which sparked a major diplomatic row in europe when it picked up hundreds of migrants in international waters, has arrived in spain. the group was initially rescued eight days ago off the coast of libya in the vessel, aquarius. within the past few minutes, th aquarius has docked in the spanish port of valencia, after earlier being refused entry by italy and malta. there are now 106 migrants on the vessel, after two ships from italy's coast guard and navy shared out the passengers to make the long journey safer. those are live pictures from the port. damian grammaticas is in valencia. a short time ago he gave us this overview of the politics behind the ship's arrival. so what we're saying, the sort of shifting political positions and pressures from this
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whole migration question. so, in italy we have a new right—wing interior minister, who has closed his ports to ships like the aquarius, says he will not accept any more private rescue vessels because he doesn't want, in his words, italy to become a refugee camp. so you've got the opposite approach now in spain, where a new left—wing socialist government, also in the last couple of weeks, helicopter going overhead again... has said that it wants to show the way to a new type of migration policy for europe. one where you both control your borders but you respect human rights. so what they've done here is the inverse. they've said they will give a safe port, a safe welcome to all of those rescued from the mediterranean by the aquarius. they will take them on, provide free medical care, a permit to stay for 45 days and anyone who lodges an asylum claim will have their hearing, their case, heard and it will be
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determined whether they should be allowed to stay in europe or not. so spain wanting to show the way to a different approach europe. let's get more and theresa may announcement there is to be new funding for the nhs in england. let's talk to the shadow health secretary jonathan ashworth. good morning. good morning. what is your announcement of this government announcement? i've long been calling for extra funding in the nhs, we need that given the crisis we have had in our hospitals, waiting lists, cancer patients waiting beyond two months for cancer treatment. people generally accept the nhs needs more money. as the nhs health tank have said this morning, this will not be enough. this money means the nhs standstill. it will probably mean waiting time is getting longer, our hospitals will still be in crisis and overcrowded and there is nothing
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for the social care sector. you can't really resolve the issues facing the nhs without also putting substantial investment into social ca re substantial investment into social care for the elderly in communities these days. labour promised it would promised an extra 37 billion over five years, that amounts according to the same organisation you just quoted to an average increase of 2.296 quoted to an average increase of 2.2% increase in real terms, in other words less than we are talking about. were you wrong then? when we announce those plans at the general election we had an addled these think tanks doing their in—depth analysis we have seen since the general election. in the last few weeks, various independent health experts say the government need to do four or 5% experts say the government need to do fouror5% in experts say the government need to do four or 5% in order to do the innovative treatments of the future that our patients in this country deserve. what are planned at the election said it in the first year there would be substantial investment upfront, nearly £9 billion extra investment for the health and social care sector. that is around 5%. what we are saying now. . . is around 5%. what we are saying
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now... but not for the whole period, is the point i'm making? no, indeed but we have a new set of projections and other health care, a new baseline for the future of nhs funding. we are saying if we would form a government we would inherit these plans, we accept the man would match them but we are prepared to go further and make the tough decisions on taxation that we propose that the general election, asking the wealthiest to pay more tax than asking the big corporations to pay more tax to bring forward additional funding for the nhs and social care sector as well. when you analyse the remarks from the prime minister about the way this particular increase will be funded, she talks about, in part, a brexit dividend. do you accept that is there?” about, in part, a brexit dividend. do you accept that is there? i think it is laughable. the truth is she is going to fund these increases in nhs spend by borrowing and tax increases. i wish it was honest and upfront with the british people. a brexit dividend, nobody thinks that is credible. i'm afraid it will
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unravel for her and the focus will be on this issue, actually, rather than the needs of patients and ward in hospitals and in the wider community, because nobody thinks this is a sensible way to fund the nhs. the truth is she will be borrowing more money, the tories will be borrowing more money and putting up tax, i wish she was honest people. you scoff with reference to the brexit dividend but say you will match this pledge. if you don't think the brexit dividend exists, you will have do find more money from somewhere else than the prime minister says she would, where was that coming from? the challenge for the government is to explain where this money is coming from and presumably they will do that in the november budget. when the last labour government increased tax that the nhs, we did it all in one go and we re very the nhs, we did it all in one go and were very upfront about where the money was coming from. you are not being up from now, if you say the brexit dividend doesn't exist and can't fund the amount you are matching, where is your bit coming from? it's the responsibility of the
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government come forward with their plans and we will scrutinise carefully in the coming months. of course, i'm making the point the government has now set out the broad projections that health spending. if the government collapses and we have a general election, these are the spending plans we would inherit, we would stick to them but also go further. but it is the response permitted the government to explain to us in detail where the money is coming from. it is also the responsibility of the government to be clear with us and admit they are not putting money into the social ca re not putting money into the social care sector or the repair bill of the nhs, 5 billion repair bill, and not putting money into public health prevention services in the wider community. you have to really look at the small print on this deal. it is not all it seems, not all it cracks up to be at first sight. ok, thank you very much for coming on, shadow health secretaryjonathan ashworth. experts now fear it may not be possible to save the world—famous glasgow school of art, following the huge fire which devastated the site on friday. fire crews have spent
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a second night at the scene, tackling the final pockets of the blaze. it's the second fire there in four years. 0ur correspondent catriona renton is there for us now. you will see that there is still very much a lot of activity happening here. in firefighting mode as the fire service said. i am joined by the chief officer. tell us what exactly is happening now, is there still burning in there? good morning. first of all i would like to echo the words of the first minister yesterday, this is heartbreaking, to see such devastation in such an iconic building. we are still very much in a firefighting phase at this moment in time. we have extinguished the main fire but there are still pockets. what crews are doing, they are turning overand pockets. what crews are doing, they are turning over and damping down, just to make sure there was no possibility of the fire flaring up and threatening any other properties in the vicinity. we have heard all the suggestions that it might not be
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restora ble the suggestions that it might not be restorable this time. what do you feel about that? are you any nearer to being able to say that? we're still in the early stages of tackling this incident. we have established the fire investigation team and the full facts and circumstances, they were welcome that as we go through this week. i really wa nt that as we go through this week. i really want to at this stage emphasise this has been a very difficult fire. the firefighters have been, as always, outstanding, supported by their colleagues within control but also an need to shout out to our partners, police scotland, scotland ambulance service, this salvation army and the fa ct service, this salvation army and the fact people in the businesses of glasgow who have offered up their support to us, it is really heartfelt from them and appreciated by our firefighters. concerns that the structural safety of the building. is it likely to need anything demolished sooner rather than later? anything particularly u nsafe at than later? anything particularly unsafe at the moment? this is a heartbreaking incident and if we could take any solace from it, there has been no injuries. what we want
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absolutely avoid at this stage is for anybody to get injured. we are being very cautious, working without partners and glasgow city council building control. we have structural engineers and their advisers advising us as we continue with the firefighting phase of this. thank you very much indeed for talking to us. as you can see, the investigation is ongoing. it will be several weeks, probably, before investigation is ongoing. it will be severalweeks, probably, before the building is safe enough of forensic investigators to be able to get in and about that building to find out exactly what happened here on friday night. thank you. time for the headlines and bbc news. an extra £20 billion a year in real terms for the nhs is announced by theresa may. the prime minister says it's funded in part by brexit — and hints at tax increases. there are calls for a change in the law after the home office allows a boy with severe epilepsy to be treated with an illegal form of cannabis oil.
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the first of hundreds of migrants who've been the focus of a european dispute over immigration arrive in spain more than a week after being rescued. sport now, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. hello, john. good morning. england us one day away from the start of their world cup campaign when they ta ke their world cup campaign when they take on tunisia in volgograd tomorrow. the squad trained this money before they make the 1000 kilometre trip this afternoon to this city in south—west russia well they will play their group opener. gareth southgate breaking from tradition by announcing his team that will play that match yesterday. if, as expected, nine players won't have played in the world cup before, including defender harry maguire. there is no doubt about it, we're going to the game, trying to get three points. we won't go there and be happy to have come to come away with a draw, we won three points. it is massive. the first game in any
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group stage is big, its tournament football, you can't lose your first game. three points would make a lot more easy to qualify. it's never far from the more easy to qualify. it's neverfarfrom the headlines, lionel messi, such is his brilliance but he will want to forget this moment in yesterday's match with iceland. he's missed penalty saw the smallest nation at the tournament draw 1—1 with the two time champions. —'s part—time movie director goalkeeper at the star of the show, as he saved his spot kick. elsewhere yesterday, croatia got theircampaign off to elsewhere yesterday, croatia got their campaign off to a winning start beating a below par nigeria start beating a below par nigeria start 2—0. this is the first of their goals, and then luka modric grabbed their second. both vaio and goal—line technology were needed as france beat australia 2—1. the latter to confirm paul pogba's winger crossed the line after antoine griezmann gave them the lead. denmark beat peru, the only goal of
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the game from matt poulsen. peru missed a penalty. these are the matches today, costa rica in serbia, the holders germany take on mexico. this evening, brazil get their world cup campaign underway this evening, brazil get their world cup campaign under way facing switzerland. it appears nothing is going right for england's rugby union side, on their longest losing streak for four yea rs their longest losing streak for four years after giving up another leap to go down 23—12 against south africa. it means they have lost the series. head coach eddiejones called it a horror movie. matt dawson suggested jones may even have lost the dressing room. the world cup, remember, is next year. ireland responded brilliantly to their defeat last weekend, levelling their series with australia thanks to a 26-21 series with australia thanks to a 26—21 win series with australia thanks to a 26—21win in melbourne. the first time they have beaten the wallabies
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on their own turf since 1979. wales are undefeated this summer. they beat argentina 30—12, which included this brilliant solo try from josh adams, closing off that tour in style. scotland lost to the united states for the first time. the scots went ahead with an early try in houston but the usa took the lead and kinghorn was celebrating in the end, when he missed a conversion in added time which would have won it for scotland's 30—29 it finished. johanna konta faces ashleigh barty in the final of the nottingham open this afternoon for us beat the reigning champion, player who she lost two in the final laughter. but she made up for that winning the rain interrupted match in straight sets. play due to get under way in the final at three o'clock afternoon. justin rose is one shot behind a four way tie for the lead going into the final round of the us
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openin going into the final round of the us open in new york state. it is phil mickelson that everyone has been talking about, though. after missing a putt on one of the incredibly fast greens, deliberately hit his ball while it was still moving. after missing a put on one of the incredibly fast greens, he deliberately hit his ball while it was moving, knowing he'd be given a two—shot penalty, but deciding that was better than letting the ball run off the green. he didn't withdraw, contrary to that caption — but several former players said he should've been disqualified. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more in the next hour. thank you. sajid javid revealed he was the victim of 0bed mugging a few months ago. he said he was about to make a call when thieves rode onto the pavement and grabbed his phone. he said the incident left him angry and upset and he was hoping to give police more power to pursue mopeds thieves. greece and macedonia have
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signed a historic agreement aimed at ending decades of dispute about macedonia's name. under the deal, greece's neighbour will be known as north macedonia — the change is to distinguish it from the greek province of macedonia. athens has long argued that by using that name, its neighbour was implying it had a claim to the greek region. earlier, i spoke to our balkans correspondent guy delauney. i started by asking him how much this matters to the greeks. well, the greeks say, the greek prime minister alexis tsipras said at this signing ceremony, "we are here to heal the wounds of time, to open a path for peace, fraternisation and growth of our countries, the balkans and europe". it's very important for prime minister alexis tsipras in greece because he really wants this to be a signature of his time in office. so far, he's been associated in greece with austerity and grim times. he wants to go down in history as the man who solved a 30 year dispute. it has to be said, though, a lot of his compatriots don't agree with what he's done.
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they say that macedonia is a greek province, populated by hellenic people, whereas macedonia, the country to the north, is populated by mainly slavic people and shouldn't have any rights to the name, because, guess what? they've only been there since the sixth century. right, in macedonia the country, what's the view of this? it's just a bit tricky remembering which macedonia is which! chuckles. yes, it is. i think you will find most people are in favour of this agreeement. just to take an example, 70% of macedonians want to join the european union. now they can't even start negotiations because greece has been blocking accession talks over the issue of the name. now if they've got this agreement they are going to be north macedonia, they can start accession negotiations. we saw the eu foreign policy chief, federica mogherini, was in the audience at the signing ceremony, beaming away. she's looking forward to macedonia starting these negotiations and so, i think, are 70% of macedonia's people.
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there will be some objections, but the majority, i think you'll find, at a referendum, will be in favour. singers from hereford cathedral will make history later this month when they become the first anglican cathedral choir to sing at a papal mass since the reformation. the group has been invited as part of the pope's programme to encourage church diversity. 0ur reporter kevin reide went along to hear their final rehearsal before they head to rome. singing. after christmas and easter, the feast of st peter and paul is the vatican's most important annual event. singing. and now, for the first time, the hereford cathedral choir has been invited as special guests. they are rehearsing now in a pretty empty hereford cathedral, but in a few weeks' time they will be performing to more than 125,000 people at the vatican, and tens of millions will be
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watching on tv. it's such an amazing thing to do, because it's great fun and you get to sing in some amazing places. to all those thinking about it, i would do it. as long as we don't mess up, yeah, it's going to be fine! it's happening at the end ofjune, and there will be two performances. they are going to be singing at a concert in the sistine chapel itselfjointly with the choir of the sistine chapel. that's a concert attended by the diplomatic corps from the vatican. then on the friday morning, we sing at the huge papal mass itself for the feast of st peter, and that's going to be in the square. the roman catholic and anglican churches haven't had the closest of relationships, but in recent years the vatican has been building bridges. the fact we've been invited speaks
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volumes of the roman catholics wanting to reach out to us, and we want to return their invitation by being really delighted in what we've been asked to do. the choir will perform on wednesday the 27th and friday the 29th ofjune. now for the weather with nick miller. good morning. quite a range out there at the moment. some of us have had rain so far today and that has cleared away. some of us are getting a bit of sunshine, it is quite breezy, on the cool site for many of us. for others, if you get sunshine, quite warm. let's break it down into some detail. vickers cloud in the uk into this afternoon will be in the west, western uk, ireland and scotla nd west, western uk, ireland and scotland lost the eastern areas, a few breaks in the cloud as there are
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at the moment. temperatures near 20 celsius. any rain in the west, closer to 16. breezy and getting windier overnight into tomorrow. a largely clear nights by the end of the night and 9 degrees in cooler spots in northern scotland, but for most of us in double figures as we start monday. a lot of fine, sunny weather early, but quite windy. cloud thickening in the west during the day and we will start to see some outbreaks of rain. some very warm sunshine for tomorrow in south—east england. this is bbc news, our latest headlines: the prime minister announces an extra £20 billion a year in real terms for the nhs, labour says it's not enough. we're making the nhs our priority. we're putting this significant amount of extra money into it. we need to make sure that money is spent wisely. we're saying you can go further. and if the government made the taxation changes we're prepared to make, you could be giving even more to the nhs.
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so, labour would be spending more on the nhs than the tories. there are calls for a change in the law, after a boy with severe epilepsy was allowed to be treated with an illegal form

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