occupied west bank. fleeing venezuela — the man many in the west believe won the country's presidential election arrives at an airbase near madrid. sir keir starmer tells the bbc his new government is �*going to have to be unpopular�* if it wants to change the country. the internationally renowed specialist children's hospital, great ormond street in london, says it's carrying out a review of more than 700 patients cases, after concerns were raised about one of its former surgeons, yasarjabber, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon. our correspondent nicky schiller has the story. great ormond street, which, as you said, is world famous for treating children,

says it is looking at 721 patients, all children who had come into contact with yasserjabber while he worked there as a surgeon. now he is reported to be an expert in limb reconstruction. now, so far, of the 39 cases reviewed, more than half were found to have been harmed. 13 of those patients severely. now, lawyers representing some of the families treated by yasserjabber say that children as young as four months old were subjected to unnecessary surgery and suffered life—changing injuries, with one child having to undergo an amputation that could possibly have been avoided if different treatment had been followed. now the solicitors representing seven of the children says the claims are shocking. have a listen to what she's had to say. clients that we have been instructed to represent in claims against mrjabber have suffered a variety

of orthopaedic injuries. some of them have nerve damage, some of them have muscle damage. we have a client that has undergone an amputation of his lower limb. we have clients that have permanent deformities that have undergone unnecessary operations as well. now, great ormond street has said it is incredibly sorry for the worry and uncertainty that this has caused and that it has contacted all patients and families affected. now, in addition to the cases that i mentioned that have been fully reviewed, it says a56 cases have been looked at by a senior nurse and a paediatrician and have not been categorised as needing their most urgent attention. now it is likely it is going to take 18 months to complete this review and, again, the solicitor representing some of the children wants it done as quickly as possible. i understand the difficulties, given the sheer volume of number of cases, that the trust has to review, that it will take time to undertake that review. what we would urge the trust to do is to try and undertake that

review as soon as possible. what we do know from representing clients who are children is that sometimes the injuries don't manifest until they're much older, and families and our clients, the patients, want to know firstly if they have suffered harm from the treatment they have already received, or alternatively, whether they are likely to suffer injuries in the future on account of treatment they have received. and if that is the case, they may wish to seek treatment and advice elsewhere. it's very important for them to know that. so the sooner the trust can can conclude that, the better we know that they have, um, asked five independent surgeons to review the care. we know that this is a very niche area of medicine, and the availability of surgeons will be limited, but we would urge them to widen the scope so that there are more surgeons involved in that independent review, so it can be undertaken in a shorter period of time as possible. what have we heard, if at all, from the surgeon in the centre of all of this? yasserjabbar. well, yasserjabbar no longer

works for great ormond street, and he has not been licensed to practice in the uk since january this year. but we understand that he is still working at an orthopaedic clinic in dubai. now, of course, we have contacted mrjabbar for comment but so far we haven't heard back from him. israel has closed all its land border crossings with jordan after three israeli civilians were killed in a shooting at the border crossing betweenjordan and the occupied west bank. israel's prime minister said it was a "hard day" and sent his condolences to the victims' families. the attacker, reported to be a jordanian truck driver, was shot dead by israeli security forces. the incident happened at the king hussein—allenby bridge crossing. the victims are thought to have been private security personnel. jordan has launched an investigation into the shootings. jordan and israel signed a peace treaty in 1994 and have close security and economic ties. but diplomatic relations

have been strained. the day started with a deluge of 50 rockets fired into northern israel lebanon's hezbollah. then, maherjazi, a 39—year—old jordanian truck driver, is said to have left his lorry at the allenby bridge border crossing before opening fire on civilian border staff, killing three before being shot himself. israel's prime minister had this to say. translation: in recent days loathsome terrorists have - murdered six other hostages in cold blood and three israeli police officers. the killers do not distinguish between us, they want to murder us all. the gunmen�*s motives are unclear, but israel's actions in gaza are widely criticised in jordan, which is home to many palestinian refugees. mr netanyahu also called for unity, but that's something that is going to be hard to achieve in this

deeply divided country. although many agree with his repeated insistence that defeating hamas is the best way to get the hostages back from gaza, these people aren't among them. late on saturday, an estimated three quarters of a million protesters poured onto the streets of israel, demanding that their government agrees a ceasefire and hostage release deal. but with no such agreement yet in sight, the unrest here looks likely to continue. mike thomson, bbc news, jerusalem. 4400 palestinians are stranded, needing support. in a further development in the region, aid agencies, the qatar red crescent

and the u.n. agency for palestinians, unrwa, have signed a 4.5 million dollar agreement with a qatari state development fund. tamara al rifai is unrwa's director. explain to us what the situation is with these workers and patients. how did they end “p and patients. how did they end up in the occupied west bank? since israel imposed a blockade on gaza 2007, the movement for people in gaza in and out of gaza has been extremely restricted, except for those who managed to obtain permits from israel to go and work in israel so they can work in the it hubs, they can work in restaurants, they can repair cars, they can have manyjobs. and it was estimated that around 18,000 gazans worked in israel before the 7th of

october, and a few hundred were seeking medical treatment outside of the gaza strip. these are the ones that were stranded when the war in gaza started, and all crossings close. of these gazans, israel expeued close. of these gazans, israel expelled onto the west bank around 4000, but more than 4000 delta tos, who neither are working in israel any more, nor can they return to their families in gaza. there are literally stranded in the west bank. ~ ., bank. while the other effectively _ bank. while the other effectively stranded . bank. while the otherj effectively stranded in bank. while the other - effectively stranded in the occupied west bank, what does that mean for them? what kind of conditions to define themselves in? do you have someone to love, even? extremely anxious. not only are they separated from their family when this devastating war it's happening, and they can watch live on tv the destruction of the one

neighbourhoods on the death of their own friends and family, but also, for those who were expeued but also, for those who were expelled from israel, and had the possibility to work there, they have also lost income. they're very uncertain and archers. some of them may have found a place to stay with friends, maybe, orwith family, but in general they are just as uncertain as every other gazan are waiting for this war to end and be reunited with those they love, theirfamilies, if they have survived. love, their families, if they have survived.— love, their families, if they have survived. we understand that agreement _ have survived. we understand that agreement has _ have survived. we understand that agreement has been - that agreement has been reached, 4.5 million agreement between a qatari fund, your agency, unrwa, and also the qatari red crescent. what does this mean for the people that you describe? the this mean for the people that you describe?— you describe? the state of qatar took _ you describe? the state of qatar took note _ you describe? the state of qatar took note of - you describe? the state of qatar took note of that - qatar took note of that category of gazans you are not covered by funding to the

humanitarian response in sir gaza, so the qatari government gave palestinian islamichhad, the agency i represent, which incidentally is the largest aid agency in gaza, qatar gave million specifically to be able to help these gazan s million specifically to be able to help these gazan 5 you are stranded for a few months. so it is replacement to the income for a few months until it is clearer, until the situation settles one way or another, hopefully for the better for all, for the hostages and for the people in gaza. and these people can either find work again or they can return to gaza. and it is important to note that carter has been extremely supportive to the humanitarian response in gaza, extremely supportive to unrwa, but so have been many arab

countries. the uae, saudi arabia, jordan, kuwait, djibouti, algeria, iraq and many many individuals around the world. this is a moment of truth about what unrwa is. it is the largest humanitarian aid injury in gaza, and currently were even vaccinating children against polio. so, it is really an agency that is doing at all, from the shelters to the psychological support to food distribution to polio vaccination, and that is what qatar and many other countries have seen, they have seen as an action over the last 11 devastating months. thank you so much for — devastating months. thank you so much for bringing _ devastating months. thank you so much for bringing us - so much for bringing us up—to—date on that deal and the situation on the ground in gaza. thank you. sir keir starmer says he's prepared for the government to be unpopular, if that's the price to be paid, for an improved economy. in his first major televison interview since becoming prime minister, he's been defending cutting winter fuel payments for most pensioners in england and wales,

a move mps will be voting on this week. here's hannah miller. we are going to have to take the tough decisions and take them early. things will get worse before they get better. so we have had to take tough decisions to stabilise the economy. it is already a familiar refrain, the government saying they are going to make choices that seem uncomfortable. today, the prime minister said he is willing to be disliked. we are going to have to be unpopular. tough decisions are tough decisions. popular decisions aren't tough, they are easy. the thing is the last government has run away from, that the government has traditionally run away from. i am convinced because they have run away from those decisions we haven't got the change we need for the economy. top of the list, targeting the winter fuel payment to only the poorest pensioners. this year around 10 million will no longer receive the allowance, saving

the treasury about 1.4 billion. that is not easy and no prime minister wants to take a decision like this, but the winter fuel payments are now to be targeted. they were untargeted before and i think everybody thought that wasn't a particularly good system. 0n the street in huddersfield, the decision hasn't gone down well. looking after the old people, the old folks, that should be top of the list. it is a bit shocking, really. everybody pays and in you expect to get it back out again at the end of the day. i shall be thinking i twice about turning the heating up this winter. the government says it will be actively trying to make sure those still eligible for the payment are signed up to receive it. when a vote takes place in parliament this coming week the government will almost certainly win but it could still tell us something about the depth of unhappiness among some labour mps if they choose to rebel.

at their conference in brighton, union leaders have been expressing their concerns. i think there will be some pensioners this year who are not eligible for pensioners tax credit but who are not well off by any stretch of the imagination who will worry about this decision. we don't want to go into the winter with pensioners afraid to put the heating on, so i hope the chancellor will use the budget to set out in the round what support support she can give. the state pension will go up next april, a choice the government has already made, but as sir keir starmer makes his case for decisions many want like he may find find there is a winter of discomfort ahead. this week sees the publication of a report into the state of the health service in england, and it's expected to highlight severe problems for children and young people accessing care. labour says the nhs is broken, blaming years of conservative rule. here's hugh pym.

from the start, the labour government was saying the nhs were broken and the problems cannot be fixed overnight. the medical expert lord darzi was asked to carry out a rapid review of the state of the nhs in england. his full report is due out later in the week but now the first findings have been released, including that more than 100,000 infants have waited more than six hours in a&e departments last year, 800,000 children and young people are on waiting lists for hospital treatment, with 175,000 waiting between six and 12 months, and 160,000 waiting more than a year for mental health support. lord darzi says there was relatively a much bigger reduction in routine nhs operations through the pandemic than in other international health systems. the prime minister put the blame on the conservative government. he has been really clear that the nhs has been broken but not beaten, and the reason he identifies is because of money

that was taken out of the nhs, particularly in the early years of the coalition, 2010 onwards. the lansley reforms, which were hopelessly misconceived, spent a lot of money and then had to be reversed, and then of course covid on top of all that which has put us in this awful position for the nhs. the conservatives denied they had broken the nhs. we know the pressures, the fact we are all living longer, is placing on the nhs. the fact we are living with more multiple long—term conditions that require care. labour promised in its first year to deliver 40,000 more operations and appointments each week, but the nhs confederation and representing employers says a lot more will be needed to hit the 18 week target for people to be seen or start treatment. our analysis shows that the combination of the size of waiting is 7.5 million people, and the growth in demand means that what the secretary of state has announced will only

go a very small way to meeting his target. the labour government is facing the same underlying pressures on the nhs as the conservatives did. the question is, can they fix the problems and deliver change? hugh pym, bbc news. the venezuelan opposition leader, edmundo gonz lez, has arrived in spain where he's been granted political asylum. mr gonz lez landed at a spanish military base, after leaving venezuela where he had taken refuge in the spanish embassy in caracas. he had challenged the venezuelan president, nicol s maduro, injuly�*s elections, which the opposition claims it won. with me is?our europe regional editor, danny aeberhard. why spain? basically sprint for political asylum. straight out of the july election, gonz lez took refuge in the dutch embassy in caracas. he stayed there for more than a month, and this

week he went to the spanish embassy. spain has consistently said that he appeared to be the winner of that election. venezuela had as an arrest warrant against him, and the venezuelan vice president said that in the end, it decided to offer him safe passage to leave venezuela for the sake of political peace, was how they justified it. so, the venezuelan government of course rejects the claims from the opposition that they won the election, and they claim to be the victims of a right—wing attempt to subvert the government there. �* , government there. and in terms ofthe government there. and in terms of the rest _ government there. and in terms of the rest of — government there. and in terms of the rest of the _ of the rest of the international community, the european union has come out and spoken of this quite strongly as well. ., ., �* , as well. the head of the eu's foreian as well. the head of the eu's foreign affairs _ as well. the head of the eu's foreign affairs bureau - as well. the head of the eu's foreign affairs bureau said i foreign affairs bureau said that it was a sad day for venezuela, for democracy there, and he has called on the

venezuelan government to end repression of political activists and release political prisoners. so, basically the eu, consistently since the election, has said that the venezuelan government did not release through voting records. it has called on them to do so so that this can be checked and verified independently. if they say that they have won it. so the european union has said that the opposition appears to have won by a large majority, and that is why gonz lez has been effectively given political asylum in spain. what does this effectively _ political asylum in spain. what does this effectively mean - political asylum in spain. what does this effectively mean forl does this effectively mean for venezuela's opposition. this is an interesting _ venezuela's opposition. this is an interesting point, _ venezuela's opposition. this is an interesting point, because i an interesting point, because it opposition leader, who are still in venezuela, she has said that actually gonz lez remains the president—elect and she has said that he will be the president who is still inaugurated injanuary next year, as president. she says that he was facing severe

threats, including dangerous to his life. he left with his wife, and she said that venezuela will continue the opposition movement, gonz lez from abroad, herfrom within venezuela. the problem here for the opposition is that although they are likely to be still more street protest they have the challenge of maintaining momentum in a repressive environment, and the military in venezuela still backs the government. fix, in venezuela still backs the government.— government. a difficult situation. _ government. a difficult situation. thank - government. a difficult situation. thank you i government. a difficult| situation. thank you for bringing us up to date. the 0scar winning actress kate winslet has told the bbc that women should celebrate "being a real body shape" after being told on a recent film set to sit up straighter to hide her belly rolls. speaking about her upcoming film, lee, on sunday with laura kuenssberg, winslet said it was herjob to be like her character, the fashion model turned acclaimed world war two photographer elizabeth �*lee' miller. we are so used to perhaps

not necessarily seeing that and enjoying it. the instinct, weirdly, is to see it and criticise it or comment on it in some way. and people were saying, "god, how wonderful, she's saying that she doesn't care about her body." i was talking about the character, it's the character that i'm playing! of course i don't care. but it was through the conversation about playing lee. and i think my point is that as women, you know, we so need to be having that conversation and just celebrating being a real shape and being soft and maybe having a few extra rolls. laura, life is too short, do you know? i don't want to look back and go, why did worry about that thing? so guess what, i don't worry any more. i don't care, i'm just going to live my life, i'm going to enjoy it, i'm going to get on with it. you've got one go around, make the most of it. a british world war two veteran who landed in france on d—day has died, aged 104.

royal engineer donald �*don�* sheppard from basildon was among the troops who fought their way ontojuno beach on the morning ofjune 6th, 1944. he later advanced through belgium, the netherlands and eventually on to nazi germany. where he helped liberate bergen—belsen concentration camp. interviewed in 2019, he said he recognised the importance of d—day, but also recalled the "tragic waste of lives" among many of his fellow young soldiers. pope francis has been visiting a remote area of papua new guinea, where he called for an end to division, superstition and magic. on a visit to the town of vanimo, the pope donned a traditional bird of paradise headdress. about a quarter of papua new guinea's residents are catholic, but pockets of the country face beliefs around the existence of witchcraft.

the music world is today farewelling a legend — bass guitarist herbie flowers. it may not be a name you recognise... but the riffs he composed are some of the most celebrated of all time. # ground control to major tom...# music: walk on the wild side by lou reed. # hey, did you rock and roll, rock on # mm, my soul 0ur reporter guy lambert joined me earlier to talk about herbie flowers extensive portfolio. name a music legend from the 1960s, the 70s, the 80s

and there's probably a high there's a high probability that herbie flowers worked and recorded with them all, but it was in the 19605 that he really secured his place as one of the best session guitarists in the industry, before becoming a founding member of blue mink. from there, he went on to chart success after chart success, working with musicians such as david bowie, paul mccartney, sir elton john, cat stevens. the listjust goes on and on and on. there were two other bands in his life. he became a member of the final line—up of t.rex in 1977, shortly before the death of frontman marc bolan, and he was also a founding member of the band sky. but really, there are two tracks that are synonymous with his skill and ability on the bass guitar, and that's david essex's rock on, and one of the most famous bass lines of all time — that bass line in lou reed's walk on the wild side that we heard just there. and would you believe that, before all of that, the bass wasn't even his primary instrument growing up, he played the tuba as a bandsman in the raf in the 19505. he didn't even turn his craft

to bass guitar until the turn of the �*60s. my god, it's just an extraordinary career, an extraordinary range of music. and all of those stars that you mentioned. the tributes must be pouring in. they are. his family announced his passing on facebook, where they said his music has touched so many lives. and elsewhere, the suede bass player, mat 0sman, and the charlatans singer tim burgess have paid their tributes, saying herbie flowers had so many great bass lines and he made the greats sound greater. and the david bowie's estate has also paid homage, calling flowers a beautiful soul and saying he'll be sorely missed. hello there. so far september has been quite warm and humid with some thundery downpours and some pleasant spells of sunshine. this upcoming week will be a shock to the system,

the first real taste of autumn, turning much cooler for all of us, with sunshine and showers, windy at times and nights a lot colder. but temperatures will begin recover again as we head into the following weekend. this weekend has been dominated by this thundery low with high humidity, some heavy rain and storms. this will slowly ease as it pushes eastwards during the overnight period tonight and leaves a legacy of cloud and spots of rain for england and wales. but scotland, northern ireland, already signs of something cooler and fresher moving in, with clearer skies, so single digits here. but double figures for england and wales. as we head into monday day, we see the back edge of that low pressure pull away in towards the near continent. it will bring further cloud, a few spots of rain during monday morning but then skies brighten up into the afternoon as it slides off into the near continent. scotland and northern ireland sees the next weather front moving in, so thicker cloud, some spots of rain later in the day, but further south it should be dry with some sunshine. but already feeling cooler

and fresher, 13 to 17 degrees from north to south. monday night into first thing tuesday, low pressure starts to set into the north of the country, bringing wet and windy weather and some colder air begins to dig in behind it. further south, still double figures to start tuesday so anotherfairly mild night to come. but it will change from tuesday onwards, behind the cold front, arctic air sinking southwards as we go through the day and it will be a strong north, north—westerly wind. unsettled picture for tuesday, this band of rain associated with the cold front, some squally rain as it spreads southwards. behind it, skies brighten up but it'll be one of sunshine and blustery showers, these heavy across the north—west and very windy for all of us, particularly across the north—east of scotland. factor in these sorts of wind speeds with these temperatures, low teens in the north, to around the mid—to—high teens in the south. it will feel noticeably chilly. it stays chilly throughout the week, temperatures below par for this time of year.

most of the showers in the north. driest in the south and east but as we head into the following weekend, we start to see temperatures recover back closer to the seasonal norm.

this is bbc news — the headlines... great ormond street hospital is overseeing

an urgent review of the cases of more than 700 patients after concerns were raised about one of its former surgeons. the patients were treated by yaserjabbar — a consultant orthopaedic surgeon who worked at the hospital until september last year. jordan's launched an investigation into the shooting dead of three israeli security personnel by a jordanian truck driver at a border crossing which links it to the occupied west bank. jordan and israel have closed the king hussein—allenby bridge in both directions. israel's prime minister condemned the shooting. venezuela's opposition leader, edmundo gonzalez, has arrived in spain, where he's been granted political asylum. he left venezuela, where he had taken refuge in the spanish embassy in caracas. he had challenged the venezuelan president in july's elections. i will be back at the top of the hour. now on bbc news, it's sportsday.