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To be unpopular to change the country. Speaking on sunday with Laura Kuenssberg he said the only way to change the country was to do difficult things now even though he knows they are unpopular. He has to not run away from her decisions as he accuses previous governments of doing. Our political correspondent Georgia Roberts joins us. He is able to lose popularity in order to tackle issues. This is one of the earliest of one of the decisions that this government has taken. He is to vote for it next week and several are going to make this unhappiness known. This morning he defended his plans to cut Winter Fuel. He defended his plans to cut winterfuel. I he defended his plans to cut Winter Fuel. Winter fuel. I get that it is tou. H Winter Fuel. I get that it is tough and Winter Fuel. I get that it is tough and it Winter Fuel. I get that it is tough and it is Winter Fuel. I get that it is tough and it is not Winter Fuel. I get that it is tough and it is not easy. L Winter Fuel. I get that it is i tough and it is not easy. No prime tough and it is not easy. No Prime Minister wants to take a decision Prime Minister wants to take a decision like this. But the Winter Decision like this. But the Winter Fuel payments are now to be targeted. They were untargeted before and i think everybody thought that wasnt a particularly good system, so it needed to be targeted. Obviously, those most in need will continue to get the payment. All of those on Pension Credit will get the payment. And we want to get as many people onto Pension Credit as we can. A conference will be voting on this policy next week on wednesday we know that there will be some serious opposition there, as well. Moving on out to the nhs, which the Prime Minister also spoke a lot about this morning. A new report from the former minister was set out in detail which set out the monumental challenges facing the nhs. Today we have heard about Health Outcomes for children being worse. Keir starmer was asked about the nhs and said that it had been broken by successive conservative governments. You is talking about it. Hes been really clear that the nhs is broken but not beaten. And the reason he identifies just ill rattle through them without spending much time on them, is because of the 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, took a lot of money and had to be then reversed. And then, of course, covid. On top of all that, which has put us in this awful position for the nhs. Labours instinct is to prioritise Childrens Health and reform the nhs. But lets think about next week because the conservatives have joined basically all of the parties in the Uk Government in a opposing these changes. Keir starmer says he is prepared to be disliked. Next week when the vote is Done we will see the scale of how unpopular he is prepared to be. Scale of how unpopular he is prepared to be. Thank you for brinuain prepared to be. Thank you for bringing us prepared to be. Thank you for bringing us that prepared to be. Thank you for bringing us that analysis, bringing us that analysis, georgia. Labouraims bringing us that analysis, georgia. Labour aims to increase the number of appointments Done by 40,000 to help. But that would only deliver around 15 of the extra capacity needed to get back to reaching the target which has been reached since 2006. Lets speak to matthew taylor, chief executive of the nhs confederation. Thanks forjoining us. How feasible is this plan to increase aberrations and appointments 40,000 . We increase aberrations and a ointments 40,000 . ~ appointments 40,000 . We welcome that. The sooner appointments 40,000 . We welcome that. The sooner we can get back to that target that we havent met for a long time, the better. The more important today is that what we were seeing is a weekend working in hospitals sharing Waiting Lists, using independent sector will only take as a small way to making a target. That is for two reasons. It is partly because there are so many people waiting, 7. 6 million. But all the time you people come onto the time you people come onto the Waiting List so demand is to grow by 3. 8 a year. So you have to deal with the stack of people who built up in the flow of people. What we argue today is that we are going to have to put in place a range of other measures if we are going to have any chance of meeting the target by The End of the parliament. Target by The End of the arliament. ~. ,. , ,. , parliament. What measures are needed then . Parliament. What measures are needed then . A parliament. What measures are needed then . A range parliament. What measures are needed then . A range of parliament. What measures are | needed then . A range of things. Better analysis needed then . A range of things. Better analysis of needed then . A range of things. Better analysis of waiting better analysis of Waiting Lists. Tools to do that. There are people who dont need to be on the Waiting List to there. If you can contact people and Waiting Lists, you can find that some of them dont need an operation any more which can reduce it. Using methods that we know will work by elective hubs. This is where you only do Elective Surgery like hips. There isnt the issue of generally elderly and frail people who arent unable to get out of hospital, and just focus on these aberrations. They are 20 more efficient than doing aberrations in general hospital. Wejust dont aberrations in general hospital. We just dont have enough, we need an awful lot more of those. We have also got to address the issue of demand. If the nhs continues to meet the ever growing demand, we are not going to be in a sustainable position. The interesting thing is that what we recommend today is already out there in the Health Service but it is in pockets. We took the best practice that existed in the nhs and made it universal, we could meet the target. Universal, we could meet the taruet. ~ ,. , target. When used to say theres best target. When used to say theres best practice target. When used to say theres best practice happening in pockets, where are those with a stabbing that already from happening elsewhere . What is that in the first place that causes some pockets of areas to do better than others . Causes some pockets of areas to do better than others . Do better than others . What is stepping do better than others . What is stepping that do better than others . What is stopping that from do better than others . What| is stopping that from happening elsewhere . Where we have had investment, newcastle, iwas there a few months ago looking at the treatment centre. They have the operation quickly when people arrive and then they go home afterjust a few hours. Patients really enjoy it because it is a very efficient process and allows them to get on with their lives. I have seen similar work in london. So they exist but we need twice as many and that is only part of what we have to do. So one of what we have to do. So one of The Big Question that as i understand, the chancellor will be talking about this in his statement and it is absolutely critical that we recognise that if we are going to transform the nhs and meet the 80 week target, we are going to have to increase capital investment. But do you think that is actually going to happen given that we have been hearing from the government saying that there is this black hole, an expected shortfall of money, and things are going to get tougher. How likely is it to get more investment . What we need is a longterm need is a long term perspective. The big challenge for the nhs and in the whole country is that if you look at current trends, the demand on the Health Service is with a Population Ageing and poor public health, poverty, housing. If that demand continues on its present trajectory, the nhs will end up having to have more and more money that will stop other public services. We have to demand that Bend Curve and needing the demand we got on the Waiting List. We also have to reduce it so having an emphasis on investing more in primary care, prevention, community based services, which are cheaper than the service is in hospital. So that is the transformation that we need. We need money up front to enable us to do things and if we do that we can bend that Demand Curve and then in the medium term we have much more sustainable Health Service. B, sustainable Health Service. A more holistic approach. Cheap executive of the nhs. Thank you for your time. Lets continue with some Breaking News in the Middle East. Israeli Emergency Services say three people have been shot and killed near the Boder Crossing between the West Bank and jordan. He was reportedly a Truck Driver who open fire. It comes after tensions between Hasbro Carpetright and israel with a number of projectiles being fired between has below Carpetright And Israel. Can you bring us to date the shooting . This Truck Driver had driven towards the bridge near the Border-crossing'>Border Crossing and opened fire after leaping out of his truck with a gun, open Fire And Security forces and killed three civilians. They were described as civilians but according to the israeli ministry they were actually Security People, private Security People, private Security People, private Security People who were shot dead. The Border-crossing'>Border Crossing, as you mentioned, is now closed on both sides. Nothing will be passing through there for a while. The truck has been searched for the possibility of explosives. Searched for the possibility of plosives searched for the possibility of exlosives. ,. , explosives. How much does the exchanue explosives. How much does the exchange of explosives. How much does the exchange of fire explosives. How much does the exchange of fire overnight exchange of fire overnight between israel and has below are his Brother Increase tensions . They have an intensified lately and august and the biggest monthly number across the Border. Across the Border. There were more than. Across the Border. There were more than. 50 across the Border. There were more than. 50 missiles across the Border. There were j more than. 50 missiles fired by his brother Carpetright And Israel also fired back. Yesterday three Emergency Workers who were trying to put out fires caused by the projectiles were killed. It is going to add to tensions because there has been a very large israeli operation in the West Bank which only recently stopped injenin leaving at least 39 people dead. This is fuelling concern that if it carries and spiralling, we could see something not that far distant. Could see something not that fardistant. In could see something not that far distant. In gaza. Could see something not that far distant. In gaza. Could see something not that far distant. In gaza. Adds to pressure far distant. In gaza. Adds to pressure on far distant. In gaza. Adds to pressure on the far distant. In gaza. Adds to pressure on the israeli pressure on the israeli government because we have also heard of increasing levels of protest. Bring us the latest on that. ,. , that. Yes, Last Night there was, that. Yes, Last Night there was. What that. Yes, Last Night there was, what the that. Yes, Last Night there was, what the organisersl that. Yes, Last Night there l was, what the organisers of that. Yes, Last Night there was, what the organisers of the rallies which were held right across israel, said it was the biggest demonstration so far. There are to be seven consecutive nights of these. An estimated 750,000 people across towns and cities around israel came onto the streets. 500,000 in Tel Aviv alone. It is not clear yet just in Tel Aviv alone. It is not clear yetjust how much the demonstration of this size is going to put pressure on the prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because he is also getting international pressure, as well. He is also having pressure from his defence minister. He is trying to find a way to deal with the ceasefire deal. Ceasefire deal. Thank you. There is ceasefire deal. Thank you. There is a ceasefire deal. Thank you. There is a lot ceasefire deal. Thank you. There is a lot more ceasefire deal. Thank you. There is a lot more on ceasefire deal. Thank you. | there is a lot more on that story and the Bbc News website. The venezuelan government says the Opposition President ial candidate, edmundo gonzalez, who challenged President Maduro in elections injuly, has left the country. Mr gonzalez had been taking refuge in the Spanish Embassy in caracas, but has now left for spain. The spanish Foreign Minister said that his country is offering political asylum. Translation i offering political asylum. Translation offering political asylum. Translation i was able to seak to translation i was able to speak to him translation i was able to speak to him once translation i was able to speak to him once he translation i was able to speak to him once he was i Translation L was able to | speak to him once he was on Translation L was able to speak to him once he was on the player and he expressed his gratitude to the government. I told him how happy we are that he is well and on his way to spain and reiterated his Governments Commitment to the demonstration of all venezuelans. We reiterate our demand that the tally is presented be verifiable and we will not recognise a victory of this cannot be Done. Spain will always be there to promote dialogue and negotiations between the government and the negotiation to reach a peaceful solution among venezuelans. The S Anish Solution among venezuelans. The spanish Foreign Minister there. At least two civilians were killed with more injured, including children, in the northern ukrainian city of sumy. Ukraines Air Defence units destroyed 15 of 23 Attack Drones and one guided Air Missile launched by russia overnight, according to the air force. The drones likely were intercepted by ukraines electronic warfare systems. Meanwhile funeral services were held in poltava for victims of a recent russian attack in which at least 55 people were killed. More than 300 were also injured in September 3 missile strike, which was one of the deadliest since the beginning of the war. Maria is a Research Fellow and she has been telling me about the situation with all of the fighting. The situation with all of the fiuuhtin. , ~ fighting. This week was generally. Fighting. This week was generally. What fighting. This week was generally. What happened today was just one Attack Ad of the number of them since last weekend. Russia is doing this on purpose because their main idea is notjust to have games on the military power in the field but to make the whole territory of ukraine and uninhabitable space and all of my relatives and friends back in ukraine. Im ukrainian, as well, it was one of the most worrying psychologically. It worrying psychologically. It must be really anxiety inducing for yourfamily there and must be really anxiety inducing for your family there and i am sorry to hear that that is what they are experiencing. Maria, you mentioned games on the battlefield is one aspect of it. If we turn to that now, what is the situation on the Eastern Front where you have got both Ukraine And Russia reporting some games there, capturing and recapturing territories . Capturing and recapturing territories . ,. , territories . Russia has been aushin territories . Russia has been pushing through territories . Russia has been pushing through to territories . Russia has been pushing through to get territories . Russia has been pushing through to get backj pushing through to get back control of the region under the control of the region under the control of the region under the control of ukraine. More than 50,000 of the population before the russian invasion lived in one of these places and it is important logistical position for ukraine and it is a pretty worrying one if russian will occupy the city. Because the more it russia is advancing, even incrementally in the Donetsk-region'>Donetsk Region, the more they get closer to the centre of ukraine and the industrial regions because the rest of Heavy Industry was in the territory occupied by russia now. So this is what russia is doing and for this reason, to capture the Donetsk-region'>Donetsk Region entirely, they have almost given up on defending another region where ukraine has organised the counter offensive occupation for recapturing apart of russian territory. President zelensky made another impassioned plea for an more Military Support on friday. Ukraine didnt get long range missiles but at other ammunition. What difference is that making at the stage of the work was met the that making at the stage of the work was me that making at the stage of the work was met the main problem is not even work was met the main problem is not even the work was met the main problem is not even the Quantity Work was met the main problem is not even the quantity of is not even the quantity of packages of support that arrives to ukraine but the Quality And Kind of weapons coming. As of now, ukraine is in huge need of longer range missiles to strike back, including on russian territory. The reason for that is simple ukraine needs to break russian logistical roads and network and the territory which is both ukrainian occupied territory, break all logistical centres which russia has developed their leg and the very south and on the Border with the Donetsk-region'>Donetsk Region and russia. The second reason is to strike back not with ukraine produced drones, which ukraine has been doing, but with longer range missiles provided by a western partners to Russian Military bases inside russia to prevent Air Attacks. Air attacks are launched from the Air Military fields inside russia, far away from the Border with ukraine. So unless we are able to hit those military targets, these are full Air Attacks and ukraine will continue regardless of how far russia is moving on the battlefield inside ukraine. Moving on the battlefield inside ukraine. Maria from London School inside ukraine. Maria from London School of inside ukraine. Maria from | London School of economics inside ukraine. Maria from London School of economics and clinical science. London school of economics and clinicalscience. But London School of economics and clinical science. But see the other news now. At least three students have been injured after a fire broke out at a Girls Boarding School in central kenya. The incident comes after 21 students died in a fire at a Boys Dormitory in the central county of nyeri. School fires are common in kenyan boarding schools. The us secretary of state, antony blinken, Will Travel To London On Monday for talks with the foreign secretary, david lammy, and senior officials. Washington says that, during the two day visit, Mr Blinken will discuss a range of critical issues, including the Middle East and ukraine. Votes are being counted in Algerias President ial election, in which Abdelmadjid Tebboune is widely expected to win a second term. Official figures say the turnout was 48 stayed open for an extra hour to boost turnout. Preliminary results are expected later on sunday. Donald trump has expressed Mock Surprise after Keir Starmer has endorsed Kamala Harris putin. He said he was the most strong candidate. I putin. He said he was the most strong candidate. Putin. He said he was the most strong candidate. I knew putin, i knew strong candidate. I knew putin, i knew him strong candidate. I knew putin, i knew him well. Strong candidate. I knew putin, i knew him well. I strong candidate. I knew putin, i knew him well. I dont strong candidate. I knew putin, i knew him well. I dont know. I knew him well. I dont know if you saw the other day, he endorsed kamara kamala, i was very offended. I wonder why he endorsed kamala. Congressmen, should i be upset about the . Was it Done with a smile, ron . Was Done with a smile . Oh who the hell knows . No one is going to figure it out, they are about 19 steps ahead of it. But nobody was tougher than russia in history then shot and the person who knows that the most is president vladimir putin. I will tell you why, i will have that were finished and Done Inside Out before i get to the White House as president elect. I will get that Done. I will get that Done. Well, his comments i will get that Done. Well, his comments follow i will get that Done. Well, his comments follow remarks. I will get that Done. Well, his comments follow remarks by | i will get that Done. Well, his i comments follow remarks by Mr Putin when he said that Kamala Harris was russias preferred choice for the next us president. Translation ,. , president. Translation ,. , translation she has such an expressive translation she has such an expressive Laugh Translation she has such an expressive Laugh And Translation she has such an expressive laugh and shows translation she has such an | expressive laugh and shows that she is expressive laugh and shows that she is doing well. Tran . He has impose she is doing well. Tran . He has impose more sanctions on russia than impose more sanctions on russia than any impose more sanctions on russia than any president has before trump than any president has before trump. Maybe kamala would refrain trump. Maybe kamala would refrain from doing something like that refrain from doing something like that. Like that. Vladimir putin there. At least four people have died and many others have been injured by super typhoon yagi, which has torn through the north of the country of vietnam. The Storm Uprooted Trees and lifted roofs from buildings and a dozen fishermen are missing at sea. The city of haiphong was badly hit, with streets filled with storm debris. Earlier, yagi brought devastation to the chinese island of hainan, where four people were killed and 800,000 left without power. It is asias most powerful typhoon this year. Aryna sabalenka has won the womens us open, beating the Americanjessica Pegula in straight sets. Its the second grand Slam Title shes won this year. It continues her dominance on hard court with an extension on her unbeaten run in major tournaments in up to 14 matches. The spanish director, pedro almod var, has won the top prize at the prestigious venice film festival. He was awarded the Golden Lion for the room next door, a drama about a woman who chooses to end her own life. Almod var used his Acceptance Speech to defend euthanasia; he said dying with dignity was a fundamental right for every human being. At the age of 74, the film is his first Feature Length Work in the english language. It is never too late to start something new . More headlines coming up later and on the Bbc Website and the Bbc News app. Stay with us Year And Bbc news. Stay with us here. Hello. A fairly unsettled theme of Weather Today and for the next few days as well. Things feeling more autumnal as we head into next week, but Today Weve got some heavy downpours around. Not everywhere is going to be seeing them, but if you do catch one could be thundery. Perhaps some localised flooding for scotland for scotland and Northern Ireland, some slightly quieter weather here, but for england and wales weve got low pressure. Thats slow moving. Its bringing a band of Cloud And Rain sitting across northern england, wales down towards the south west, central, southern and eastern england, seeing sunny spells and scattered showers bubbling up through the day, some of them heavy and thundery. The most persistent and heavy rain, i think, around the far south east coast. Scotland and Northern Ireland, cloudier than it has been but mostly dry. Just a bit of drizzle in the far east, but temperatures still getting up to about 22, 23 degrees across central and western scotland, most of us high teens or low 20s. Moving through this evening and overnight, this band of Cloud And Rain slowly edges its way towards the east, lingering longest for eastern england. Clearer skies for scotland, Northern Ireland, wales and the southwest of england, and it will be cooler and fresher than recent nights. We could get into mid single figures for the more rural spots in the sheltered glens, for instance, so monday morning, then starting off dry for many of us. But we have got this cloud and drizzly showers, i think, just lingering for central and eastern england. Sunny spells elsewhere. But later in the day, the next area of Cloud And Rain moves into the far northwest. It will be a bit fresher than it has been, certainly in the north. 14 to 18 degrees for most of us On Monday. And then that Cooling Trend continues as we move through Monday Night into tuesday. Low pressure bringing quite a wet and windy spell of weather for scotland and Northern Ireland overnight. Into tuesday, you can see the proximity of the isobars. Quite a blustery feeling day. This band of Cloud And Rain will slowly ease as it heads across england and wales, followed by sunshine and showers. Some of these blustery showers across the highest ground in scotland could even have a bit of a wintry flavour to them. Gusts of wind, likely to be 30 to 40 miles an hourfor many of us, could be up to 50 miles an hour in the far north west, so its going to feel blustery, and when you add on that wind chill, it will feel quite a Bit Cooler than it has been. So 11 to 18 on the thermometer. Feeling a Bit Cooler in the breeze. And then into the middle of the week and things turn cooler still. You can see the blue colours indicating this colder air mass, which is going to start to work in from the north west. So a drop in temperature for all of us through the course of the week ahead. Sunshine and showers. But i think the bulk of the showers will be across the north west, with some drier weather towards the south. Bye. This is Bbc News, the headlines Prime Minister Keir Starmer tells the bbc his new government will have to be unpopular because he wont shy away from hard decisions. We will have the interview in full shortly. The Israeli Military and lebanese Group Hezbollah have been exchanging fire with israel carrying out strikes in southern Lebanon And Hezbollah retaliating with rocket fire. Prime minister Keir Starmer tells the bbc his new government will have to be unpopular because he wont shy police in the us state of kentucky are hunting for a gunman after several people were shot on an interstate highway