we ll hear shortly from the metropolitan police the metropolitan police commissioner, dame cressida dick. new figures reveal a record 6.1 million people were waiting to start routine hospital treatment in england at the end of last year. also coming up this hour: new fossils found in a cave in southern france suggest humans and neanderthals could have coexisted for long periods. good morning and welcome to bbc news. the former conservative prime minister sirjohn major is about to make a keynote speech in central london on the issue of trust and standards in a democracy. it comes on the day that police investigating lockdown parties in downing street have said they ll start sending questionnaires to more than 50 people this week.
waiting times target are underperforming. a 6.1 million people are awaiting treatment. looking at some of the pictures making morning papers for you, and the guardian has this picture of a mom on the far left as she is looking at her newborn baby in a desk, in ukraine. the times has the shot of the street in the same city. here we go. looking like the beaches of normandy, a to block a russian tank. and the telegraph shows a woman in india celebrating the first day of holy. which is the hindu spring festival of colors. look as though they re having a great time, don t they? maybe not. i don t know why she s got that thing on her head at the back. somebody will tell me. now, the government has abandoned its animals which have brought some of the toughest laws in the world on the import of gruesome animal
commission reported 20 one hundred civilians have died in the war since it began but officials believe the actual figure could be much higher. so said to think of all those people, 6.1 million displaced, 12.1 million unable to escape the country and last count 2100 dead. pete: you have twice as many in the country as those who left and all these numbers are different, to know what is different, casualties and deaths on both sides. us leaders warning vladimir putin could be plotting a chemical weapons attack. station chief dan hoffman served in moscow, says putin has done it before. dan hoffman knows about this subject next. this isn t just freight. these aren t just shipments.
will go up. what we can do to protect our most vulnerable is to do what we are doing today, our spring booster programme, so it is more important that ever that people who are immunocompromised and elderly because they are more susceptible gets the spring booster. what because they are more susceptible gets the spring booster. gets the spring booster. what is it like for you gets the spring booster. what is it like for you as gets the spring booster. what is it like for you as a gets the spring booster. what is it like for you as a gp? gets the spring booster. what is it like for you as a gp? does - gets the spring booster. what is it like for you as a gp? does it - gets the spring booster. what is it like for you as a gp? does it feel. like for you as a gp? does it feel like for you as a gp? does it feel like things are returning to normal or are you still overwhelmed? locate or are you still overwhelmed? we have not or are you still overwhelmed? - have got to remember when w
care from their 6.1 million people is going to be there for some time until we get through that. we will have an increased demand in primary care for some time. we have seen over! million more contacts in primary care since pre pandemic and i cannot see that getting easier regardless of what the covid rate to do because of that backlog. thank ou for do because of that backlog. thank you for speaking do because of that backlog. thank you for speaking to do because of that backlog. thank you for speaking to us, do because of that backlog. thank you for speaking to us, always - do because of that backlog. thank you for speaking to us, always a i you for speaking to us, always a pleasure to have you in the studio. let s get the sport now with john and we let s get the sport now with john and we are let s get the sport now with john and we are talking about formula i getting and we are talking about formula i getting even more exciting. yes, aood getting even more exciting. yes,