a royal welcome for king charles in samoa — ahead of the commonwealth summit. but will a row over reparations dominate proceedings? the uk government announces that a ban on single—use vapes will come into force from june next year. a 60—year—old woman's arrested on suspicion of manslaughter — following the deaths of three people at a care home in dorset. and — inside the mysterious mind of tim burton — we talk to the director about his work — and his exhibition opening in london. let's return to the news that the government has confirmed it is going to ban the sale and supply of single—use, disposable vapes in england. ministers say the move is aimed at protecting the environment and protecting child ren�*s health. the ban will come into effect

in england from june next year. similar bans are expected to be introduced by the devolved governments in scotland, wales, and northern ireland. vapes are banned in sa countries, including brazil, india, iran and thailand — according to a 2023 report by the world health organisation. 7a countries, mostly in africa but also including pakistan, colombia and mongolia, do not regulate e—cigarettes at all. while the governments of the us and china allow vapes but regulate their use. let's speak to hazel cheeseman, ceo of action on smoking and health — a health charity working to eliminate the harm caused by tobacco use. thank you with being with us. what do you make of the ban date we are now hearing of? it is welcome to see the government taking some steps to address the vaping market. disposable vapes have really driven the appeal of vaping

among teenagers in particular. this is an important first step to kind of get back control of the market. but the government does need to introduce further legislation to really curb the appeal among teenagers and address the branding and promotion, which have been so key to the fact we have seen this uptake among teenagers. what more do they need to do? so what it needs is it needs more power is unable to limit the way products are promoted. removing these products from the market is a good step forward but we already see that producers are redesigning their products to meet the standards which the government has set and bringing products to market that looked almost identical to the products that are being prohibited but to meet these standards in terms of being rechargeable and reusable. it is important that we have good options available for smokers who want to switch. vaping is a really important aid and we

don't want to drive of the market completely but we need to more proportionate regulations in order to curb the appeal among people who don't smoke and among teenagers, where we have seen an increase in the last couple of years. an increase in the last couple of yew-— of years. what are you most worried about _ of years. what are you most worried about in _ of years. what are you most worried about in terms - of years. what are you most worried about in terms of i of years. what are you most | worried about in terms of the impact on health?— impact on health? well, the issue around _ impact on health? well, the issue around these - impact on health? well, the l issue around these disposable products is first of all their environmental impact. these are a single use product and they can be recycled but they are very often chucked away. clearly there are refillable, reusable alternatives which would be much betterfor the planet. on the disposable vapes aside, it's about the environmental consequences. on the kind of concerns around young people using these products, this is not necessarily because we have enormous amounts of evidence there is long—term harm is from using these products, although there may be and on a precautionary basis, you don't want teenagers to take them up. but it is also about people

acquiring an addiction to nicotine in their teenage years, which is farfrom desirable given the cost that might be associated with that across their lifetime. so on the basis there may be harm's with using these products long term, although we know they much less harmful than smoking for those switching, and because we don't want people to have an addiction to something they need not, we want to see they need not, we want to see the use among young people declining and government must take powers to regulate particularly the promotion and branding of these products in order to achieve that goal. figs order to achieve that goal. as ou order to achieve that goal. as you know, some fear this will simply go underground, with a ban, or people will switch back to cigarettes in bigger numbers.— to cigarettes in bigger numbers. , ., , numbers. yes, i really don't think that — numbers. yes, i really don't think that we _ numbers. yes, i really don't think that we will _ numbers. yes, i really don't think that we will see - numbers. yes, i really don't| think that we will see people switch back to cigarettes and i certainly hope we won't, given there are many products on the market which now meet the standards and are no on mostly similar to the once prohibited. in terms of the illicit market,

there are things that the government needs to do to address the fact we have products that don't meet british standards widely available in the market currently and that is about a proper strategy at the board to address products coming in. i don't think the disposable ban increases the risk of that, we have that kind of established already and the government needs to introduce an excise tax on to vape product in order to give greater powers to border force and to hmrc so that we can limit products coming in at the border, rather thanjust coming in at the border, rather than just leaving the coming in at the border, rather thanjust leaving thejob coming in at the border, rather than just leaving the job to trading standards to clear them off the street or at retail level. that is in position for the problem at hand, an excise tax is needed and hopefully we will see the government bring something like that forward in the next week.— something like that forward in the next week. thank you very much for _ the next week. thank you very much for your— the next week. thank you very much for your time. _ a 60—year—old woman has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, following the deaths of three people at a care home in dorset. police say carbon monocide

poisoning is their main line of inquiry. some residents are still being treated in hospital, and other have been moved to alternative accommodation. let's speak to our correspondent will vernon who's in swanage. just bring us up—to—date with what is happening there. just bring us up-to-date with what is happening there. there was an absolutely _ what is happening there. there was an absolutely enormous i was an absolutely enormous emergency service response here yesterday morning, after those three elderly residents were found dead. police, fire, at least ten ambulances all rushed to the scene. about a0 residents were safely evacuated to a church halljust down the road. as you say, the main line of inquiry for the police is that that this was carbon monoxide poisoning but they are still treating the deaths as unexplained. their 60—year—old local woman, who was arrested yesterday on suspicion of manslaughter, she remains in police custody and officers are

looking into whether there was any actions of gross negligence which might have led to this. now, those residents that were taken to the church halljust down the road here, many of them had mobility issues, dementia, some of them. they remained there yesterday but by the end of the day, they had all been taken to other care homes in the area and the local community here really did pull together. local residents taking food and drink and blankets to those people in the church hall. i was chatting to the editor of the local news website a little earlier and she was telling me that this care home, gainsborough, had a really good reputation locally. they were known for taking in people with dementia, whereas other care homes in the area don't do that. so really, this community is in shock but they are coming together to support the staff and the elderly residents and of course the loved ones of those who died.

thank you, will vernon. just some breaking news from france on the middle east because the french president emmanuel macron has repeated his call for a ceasefire in lebanon today, speaking at a conference, and he says he regrets that iran had invoked hezbollah against them but criticise their actions in the south of the country. president macron has said this conference in paris would provide key supplies for the lebanese army and support the recruitment of 6000 new troops for the lebanese army. that conference would be supporting that recruitment process. but president macron speaking about developments in lebanon there at the moment. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

families of footballers

who died from chronic traumatic encephalopathy — including the family of england 1966 world cup hero nobby stiles — have written an open letter to the government, insisting it becomes mandatory for anyone who's played contact sport to be checked for the disease when they die. cte is linked to repetitive head trauma and can cause mood changes and aggression. these families believe heading footballs killed their loved ones. our sports correspondent natalie pirks has been speaking to some of the widows affected. kevin bird was a mansfield town legend. a no nonsense defender who played for the stags a50 times. loved, loved football. thought he was a really lucky man to play football for a living. 12 years ago, sue started to notice changes in her husband. diagnosed with alzheimer's and depression, he'd gone from a loving granddad... come to mummy, to mummy. ..to snappy and aggressive.

it all came to a head on new year's eve in 2019, when kevin attacked sue but couldn't remember. i said to him, i've got to go to a&e, you'll have to come with me. i sat him on a chair and i went to the desk. sorry. i said, "my husband's got dementia and he's attacked me and i don't know what to do." and they sectioned him. and i thought they'd give him something to calm him down, and he'd come home. but he never came home after that. when kevin died last year, sue had his brain examined. she believes the results were unequivocal. heading the ball. football. the game he loved killed him. this is one of those sections we've examined from kevin's brain and you can see the level of damage that there is here in the brain. professor willie stewart is a consultant neuropathologist at the university of glasgow. all this brown material that you see on the screen

shouldn't be there. these brown splotches are cte, chronic traumatic encephalopathy. it's a form of dementia, likely caused by repetitive head impacts and it can only conclusively be proven after death. both dr stewart's and the fa's own studies show footballers are three and a half times more likely to develop neurodegenerative diseases than the average population. all our attempts to try and find other reasons fail. we keep coming back to it is something to do with the sport. it is repetitive head impact. the english fa is phasing out deliberate heading for under—iis seconds over the next three seasons and says its continuing to take a leading role in reviewing and improving the safety of the game, including investing in multiple projects to research the issue. i'm absolutely certain that it's a ticking time bomb. but the woman behind the safe football charity believes education for the next

generation is lacking. judith gates' husband, bill, played for middlesbrough. he never headed a ball again after retiring with terrible migraines the day before his 30th birthday, yet died with cte last year. cte is brutal. i would like to have a national slogan that says "think ahead safe, reduce heading in training." i hope that bill's legacy from ourjourney will be saving every kid who plays football on a cobbled backstreet. natalie pirks, bbc news. natalie is here with me. how widespread is this how concerned, this whole issue? certainly in football at the moment, judith, who you saw in my piece, described as the tip of the iceberg. the truth is, we don't know. we are starting to see a lot of former footballers when they die, because the key thing is cte can only be conclusively proven

in those who have died. they need to look at slices of their brains under a scan. but we are starting to see that now coming through. judith will describe hundreds of families she is in touch with and some now who are former footballers, touch with and some now who are formerfootballers, who touch with and some now who are former footballers, who are still around, who are starting to suffer cognitive decline and starting to worry about it. so tip of the iceberg is how she describes it.— describes it. what do the family will? _ describes it. what do the family will? they - describes it. what do the family will? they are - describes it. what do the i family will? they are asking for mandatory _ family will? they are asking for mandatory postmortem | for mandatory postmortem examinations on anyone that has ever played a contact sport. clearly that is tricky. there will be many reasons why families won't want to have those kind of examination is done, may be for religious reasons, for example. but they would like to see it happen so that sports can adopt better brain welfare protocols, so people can understand more and we can do more around welfare where the players and people in training, for example. so they want this to become mandatory, so that people can actually see the scale of the problem. what the scale of the problem. what is the fa response _

the scale of the problem. what is the fa response to _ the scale of the problem. what is the fa response to this? - the scale of the problem. whatj is the fa response to this? the fa is actually — is the fa response to this? tia: fa is actually doing quite is the fa response to this? ti2 fa is actually doing quite a lot in this area. they have funded a lot of studies. they are continuing to fund research into it and they told me they are investigating on multiple projects to gain a greater understanding of cte through objective, robust and thorough research. they are also banning heading in the under 11 is. this season we are seeing in under nines, next season under tens and following seas and under 11 is but there will be plenty who say that is not quite yet enough. we need to ban it more, as you head on that 1529 00:15:35,