this is bbc news. the headlines at two o'clock. theresa may promises a £20 billion a year real—terms increase to the nhs in england by 2023. 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 could 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 will be spending more on the nhs than the tories. hundreds of migrants who've been the focus of a european dispute over immigration arrive in spain more than a week after being rescued. 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. also in the next hour — scouring the depths of loch ness. scientists use new technology

to discover what lurks beneath the surface. singers from hereford cathedral will make history when they become the first anglican cathedral choir to sing at a papal mass since the reformation. and... brexit and the galileo satnav system is discussed in politics europe — in half an hour, here on bbc news. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. theresa may says the nhs in england will get an extra £20 billion a year in real—terms funding by 2023. in a bbc interview today, the prime minister said some of the money would come from savings made when britain stops paying into the eu budget. she also suggested the rest would have to come from higher taxation. labour say the government was relying on a "hypothetical" windfall.

0ur health correspondent dominic hughes reports. as the pressure on the nhs has grown, so too have calls for more money for the health service. finally, after weeks of tough talks in whitehall, the prime minister has revealed the nhs budget will grow — paid for partly by the so—called "brexit dividend", but also possibly higher taxes. at the moment, as a member of the european union, every year we send significant amounts of money — we spend significant amounts of money — on our subscription, if you like, to the eu. when we leave, we won't be doing that. so the question is timing, isn't it? it's right that we use that money to spend on our priorities. and the nhs is our number one priority. absolutely. 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.

but the independent institute for fiscal studies says the public finances will not benefit from any brexit dividend, and labour argues the increase falls short of what is needed. they told us they're going to pay for it from a brexit dividend. we don't really know what that means, because we don't know what the deal is going to be and what the overall effect on the economy is going to be. and, actually, whether brexit is going to end up costing us a great deal of money, or whether we construct the sort or whether we can strike the sort of deal that would do us some good. and across the nhs there's a feeling this settlement is onlyjust enough to keep pace with rising demand. it does fall short of the independent assessment that we've had done, which suggests we need 4% a year. this is only going to be 3.4%. so, it is a good step forward, but we're still going to have to make hard choices at the end of the day. scotland, wales and northern ireland will also get extra funds, but the devolved administrations will decide how they're spent. this announcement leaves some big questions unanswered,

not least the funding of social care, which has such a profound impact on the health service. without those details, there are no guarantees even this extra money will significantly ease the long—term pressures on the nhs. dominic hughes, bbc news. let's talk to kate andrews from the institute of economic affairs. thank you very much for coming in. how welcome is this money and is it enough? well, i think on the surface many people will welcome it. but it is not obvious at all that this was the financially responsible thing to do, especially when you're looking at the fact that there is no brexit dividend yet, if even if there does come a point where some of the money that originally went to the eu could come back to the uk. we do not know how much it is realistically going to be. so, this funding increase of £20 billion roughly a year is going to come from higher taxes, which will affect people now, and more, it

rowing which means taxes on kids down the road. i think when there are still so many questions about efficiencies in the nhs and very expensive prescriptions on antidandruff shampoo and fisher oil, has every path been considered to make sure that taxpayers are getting the best deal out of this? i don't think so. labour saying they could work out a tax arrangement which would be better than the conservatives are suggesting and a nyway conservatives are suggesting and anyway a lot of people would say it is the health service, it is worth it? i might believe that when i see a costed manifesto from them but simply permitting to borrow more is not a responsible way to make pledges to the national healthcare service. look, it is possible that the nhs needs more funds, i am not totally opposed to this but it must go hand in hand with structural reform. the nhs has been in crisis for years, falling behind its european counterparts looking at things like patient outcomes, stroke and cancer survival rates. if this money is going to be funnelled into a broken system, patients are not

going to see the results they are hoping to get. the social care minister said the other day that a fund the nhs without funding social ca re fund the nhs without funding social care is like running a tap without putting a plug in, so how important for you is a commensurate funding of social care? well, there is that £6 billion figure that has been calculating, that is the black hole in social care. in my opinion that needs to be addressed first and foremost. and that is something which needs to come through the way local councils are funded and it should go hand in hand will have. but all we are talking about here is more money and it is shocking to me that on the 70th birthday of the nhs nobody is willing to mention that france and switzerland is, countries which are not thought to have privatised healthcare systems, are getting better patient outcomes because they give patience more choice, they have better efficient structures and they use the private sector in a meaningful and regulated way to get waiting times down and to get people access to better care. why is this so scary to talk about?

why is this so scary to talk about? why is this so scary to talk about? why is nobody talking about this, especially the prime minister? we do have and always have had quite a lot of private involvement in the nhs — how much further would you want to see private firms being part of our general structure because a lot of people do instinctively feel that is not right? there is not a lot of private involvement in the nhs when it comes to treatment, so most of the money that goes to private firms through the nhs is for things like beds and cleaners, things which do not have much to do with the way people access their health care. if you look at countries which are thought to be frankly far more left wing like sweden, you see significantly more private provisions in their healthcare services. they are not running away into the private sphere, the public sector uses them efficiently because they tend to be better with efficiency gains and waiting times and getting people better access to health care. so countries which are frankly more left—wing than the uk, countries which are very conscious about megan schutt that health care

is provided to everybody, are being realistic about the best way to provide certain services. so at the moment samantha private sector can complain whatsoever at the moment, it hasn't been tried here in the uk. thank you. a rescue ship which picked up hundreds of migrants off the coast of libya and sparked a diplomatic row has arrived in spain. the aquarius was initially turned away by italy and malta and it has now docked in the spanish port of valencia. 0ur europe correspondent damian grammaticas reports sunrise, and the private rescue ship the aquarius and its convoy were finally nearing a welcoming port. spain, and valencia, coming into sight. a european country, prepared to take them in. the 630 people who were on the aquarius have been at sea since they were picked up off the coast of libya over a week ago. behind them, a journey of more than 1000 miles, halfway across the mediterranean, after italy and malta refused them entry. the aquarius had reignited

a european—wide debate about migration. by welcoming the ship, spain hopes to change the terms of the argument. by taking in this ship, spain's new socialist government wants to demonstrate what a new type of migration policy for europe can look like. 0ne it says where it's both possible to control your borders and respect human rights. that's why it's going to give every person on these ships a hearing for their asylum applications. we thank the spanish government for welcoming people in need, at times when many others are rejecting them or turning them away. this is what we need in these times, an expression of solidarity, an expression of support an expression of humanity. more than 10,00 red cross volunteers were waiting on the quayside, along with doctors and immigration officials. spain will give them permits to stay for 45 days,

free medical treatment and the opportunity to make their asylum claims. italy, meanwhile, says it is closing its ports to private rescue boats. but doctors without borders, who operate the aquarius, say saving lives will come first. europe's arguments about migration are taking centre stage once more, and the divisions are deeper than ever. damian grammaticas, bbc news, valencia. sajid javid has revealed he was a victim of a moped mugging before he became home secretary. he told a newspaper his phone was snatched outside london's euston station. mrjavid, who is now in charge of britain's policing, said the theft left him "angry and upset". he says he's looking at how to give officers more powers to chase moped thieves. 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 they say 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. i'm asking sajid to please... i want to request a meeting with him in london 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. he said... 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. 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. greece and macedonia have signed

a deal that, if ratified, will resolve a decades—old dispute concerning macedonia's name. the disagreement stems from greece already having a northern province called macedonia. according to the deal, the balkan state will be renamed the republic of north macedonia. 0ur balkans correspodnent guy de launey reports. ina high in a high end wedding picture which are risk lake, a romantic crossing by the macedonians and the greek hosts anticipating their guests' arrival. and of course one side will be changing its name. but there were no last—minute nerves for the two prime ministers, onlyjoy and probably relief that a dispute stretching back through it three decades is finally nearing its conclusion. the eu commissionerfor enlargement was among the guests. name change will allow macedonia to

start membership negotiations. athens has now pledged to end its objections. . translation labelthis is to heal the wounds of the past and to pave the way for peace, fellowship, collaboration and mutual growth. not only for our countries but for the balkans, the whole of europe. translation: you cannot achieve anything without courage. courage is the greatest valour, followed by honour if signing the final agreement for the name is of strategic importance for the two countries and it can move mountains. actually, to prime minister is celebrated, the happiest man in the room may have been the un mediator who has spent a quarter of a century working on the name dispute.|j

who has spent a quarter of a century working on the name dispute. i think working on the name dispute. i think working out these problems over a long period of time has resulted in an agreement that really is fair, honourable and workable. and so, the happy couple sailed off, not into the sunset but to lunch. but there is no time for a honeymoon, they still face a referendum in macedonia and a parliamentary vote in greece. choppy waters possibly ahead. let's get more from our balkans correspondent guy delauney. what is happening in macedonia, or should we say the soon—to—be republic of north macedonia? well, i think the republic of north macedonia, as it will be, the reception there is going to be a lot more positive than you would have in greece. the reason is that this has been dragging on for so long and it has really been having an effect on the country's development. it is the cheapest capital city in europe, scott piercy, and there is a reason

for that, the people there have average wages of less than 400 euros average wages of less than 400 euros a month and they want that to change. they also want the rule of law to apply, not to have governments with people filling their pockets. and they believe that unblocking this blockage to membership of the european union and of nato, will allow their country to be prosperous bottles at your and for its citizens to enjoy the rule of law. we will find out, of course, whether people agree with that assessment when they get to vote in assessment when they get to vote in a referendum probably in september or october. meanwhile in athens, a different story? yes, we even saw by the lake about 500 protesters —— 5000 protesters had turned up, they could not get anywhere near because the police blocked their way but these are people who say that the country to the north of greece should not have the word macedonia in its name at all. as far as they are concerned macedonia is a greek province and the people who live in

the republic of macedonia only arrived in the sixth century, that is 1500 years ago and they are newcomers and they are slavic people, not hellenic and they have no right to use the name macedonia. but the fact is that this has been greek policy for a long time, they wa nted greek policy for a long time, they wanted a geographic addition to macedonia's name to separate it from their province and that that name should be used internally and internationally. they have not what they wanted from the deal, macedonia has accepted all of their points. so it is not as if this has come as news to the people of greece. people have long memories, don't they? thank you very much. the headlines on bbc news. the prime minister promises a £20 billion a year real—terms increase to the nhs in england by 2023. labour says it's not enough, and would more than match what the government is spending. the hundreds of migrants rescued off the libyan coast have now arrived in spain. their plight has sparked a row between european union member states over who should accept them. 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. that is jonathan, that isjonathan, we're going to talk to him in a minute of! just thought we would give you a little preview! as we've been hearing, there have been calls for more details about how the government plans to fund an extra £20 billion a year by 2023 for the nhs in england. theresa may announced the budget increase this morning, saying that it would, in part, be funded by a brexit dividend. our political correspondent jonathan blake is here. so sorry to do that to you! that does not seem to be a lot of detail about where the money is coming from? no, there is very little, in fa ct,

from? no, there is very little, in fact, if any, from? no, there is very little, in fact, ifany, beyond from? no, there is very little, in fact, if any, beyond what the prime minister has said that the brexit dividend as she puts it will go some way to paying for this increase in nhs spending. and in doing that she is able to say that the promise on the side of the bus that we all saw during the eu referendum campaign, the £350 million a week which would be better spent on the nhs rather than going to the eu, that that promise has been kept, and in fact she has gone further. but as you will have hurt in our reporting on bbc news, there are economists and others who are queueing up to say, hold on, the brexit dividend does not really exist. if you take a look at broader picture in terms of how much money the money government has got to spend, the payments to the eu budget have really already been accounted for in promises that the government has made in terms of keeping funding going for sectors which get money back from the eu and the level of taxation falling as a result of economic growth being what it is after brexit in the short—term, then that does not really leave you with much, if anything at all. so, the prime

minister to an extent knows that that criticism is coming and has said that the country will have to contribute a little bit, which two decoder that, means that taxes will have to rise to pay for it. as to what taxes and when and by how much, we do not have the detail yet. labour think they have got a better way of doing it? they do, they have said they would match it and go further, putting £9 billion into the nhs extra this year alone. and overtime increasing spending by 5% year on year. and they say that they would do that by reversing cuts to corporation tax. how popular, or a cce pta ble corporation tax. how popular, or acceptable to voters, would an increase in tax be if that is what it came to? it's a very good question. i think the public in general don't like tax rises. none of us like paying more tax than we have to. but if there is one thing you could ask most people that they would like to see in better shape thanit would like to see in better shape than it is in now and which they

would be prepared to perhaps pay a bit more tax to fund, it would be the nhs. but we will see polling on that in the coming weeks and months i'm sure. and no tax rise will necessarily be popular but the prime minister clearly feels that the nhs is so well regarded and loved and prized by the electorate that she is willing to, if you like, go against traditional conservative political thinking and put taxes up to pay for it. jonathan, thank you very much. 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 a second night at the scene, tackling the final pockets of the blaze. it's the second fire there in four years. catriona renton has been at the scene and has been speaking to the emergency services there. well, you will see that there is still very much a lot of activity happening here, still fighting, in firefighting mode, as the fire service say, and i'm joined by the chief

officer, alasdair hay. alasdair, tell us what exactly is happening now, is it 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 of such an iconic building. we're still very much in a firefighting phase at this moment in time. we've extinguished the main fire, however there are still pockets. what our crews are doing in a technical term, they're turning over and they're dampening downjust to make sure there is no possibility of the fire flaring up and affecting any other properties within the vicinity. we have heard all these suggestions that it might not be restorable this time, what do you feel about that, are we anywhere near to being able to say that? we're still in the very early stages of tackling this incident. we've established a fire investigation team and the full facts and circumstances, they will work on that as we go through this week. but i really want to at this stage

emphasise this has been a very difficult fire, the firefighters have been within control but also i think i need to shout out to our partners police scotland, scottish ambulance service, the salvation army and in fact the people and the businesses of glasgow who have offered up their support to us. and it is really heartfelt from them and appreciated by our firefighters. obviously there are concerns for the structural safety of the building — is it likely to have anything demolished sooner rather than later, is there anything particularly unsafe at the moment? this is a heartbreaking incident. if we can take any solace from it, there has been no injuries. and what we want to absolutely avoid at this stage is for anybody to get injured. so we're being very cautious, we are working without partners we are working with our partners in glasgow city council building control, we've got structural engineers advising us as we continue with the firefighting phase of this operation. chief officer, thank you very much for talking to us. the operations

are still ongoing here, the investigation is ongoing now. and it will be several weeks probably before the building is safe enough for forensic investigator to be able to get in and around that building to find out exactly what happened here on friday night. 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. our 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 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 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. scientists are scouring the depths of scotland's loch ness, using some new technology to discover what lurks below. they're using environmental dna sampling, a tool to find tiny fragments of scales, skin and even fur left behind by animals to gain a better understanding of native species in the lake. but it has some wondering if they'll also be able to prove once and for all whether nessy, the loch ness monster, does, or ever did, exist. rylee carlson explains. for hundreds of years, tales of loch ness have

captured imaginations, and notjust because of its beauty. instead, people flock here hoping to find proof of a monster lurking lurking beneath the water. now, scientists are hoping modern improvements in dna technology can help unravel the mystery. we're going to be taking some water samples at a variety of depths using this device here. neil gemmell is with the university of otago in new zealand. while analysing those water samples they will be hunting for unknown dna. from half a litre of water we can get a very, very good catalogue of life within the loch. and we thought this would be a great place to showcase that technology, because of course there is this hook of, there may be something unknown to science lurking in those waters. but professor gemmell isn't the first to try. in this 1986 search, scientists tried using ultrasound but came up empty—handed.

and just two years ago, a robotic submarine search turned up an old film prop of the beast, but nothing else. even those dedicated to nessy know the odds are slim. i'm sure that some species will be found which have probably not been described. now, they might be bacteria, in fact they're more likely than anything else to be bacteria. if you did find something chosen i do emphasise the "if", then you would actually get quite a good handle on what sort of creature, what class of an animal you were looking at, whether it is fish, flesh or fowl. even though previous searches have struck out, tourists haven't stopped coming in — if anything it adds to the mystery. they're finding new plants and new animals in different places of the world all the time. so they still could find something here that we don't know about. so, will this e—dna test finally

reveal the answer to a centuries—old question or will the elusive creature elude science yet again? we already know the answer to that, don't we, phil avery, with the weather? well, i thought i did years ago, watching it on blue peter, and they had a picture, they had so now trace and i thought, they've done it! and some years later i have a feeling that that was all poo—pooed. the problem is it leaves us our taste in the mouth for an impressionable young minds like yours, phil? what, now?! moving on, back to the weather, nothing to see here, a very good afternoon to you! quite a lot of cloud around at the

moment across the british isles, the western areas seeing the thickest of it and that is where we are likely to see more rain. some areas even here will stay dry. best chance of dry weather is out towards the east during the rest of the afternoon. all too late in the day for some of you, some of this cloud will waft away towards the north sea, clearing skies eventually getting into some of these western areas. but some of it will just of these western areas. but some of it willjust linger of these western areas. but some of it will just linger across the south, where it is going to be quite close night. a bright start to monday and that is the way it will probably stay in the east. however, out towards the west we bring in a new area of cloud and that might contain the odd bit of rain across the western shores and hills. top temperature, 25, but on wednesday it could be up to 27 or 28 in the