you re back, we re back, everybody s back, and this august, so was the edinburgh festival, the world famous celebration of the arts that takes over the city the whole month. it s a melting pot of theatre, music, dance and opera, and on the side, as its name suggests, is the edinburgh fringe. she s like, please never speak to me again . laughter filled with experimental performers, innovative shows and my favourite comedy. one of the beautiful things about the fringe is that it takes over loads of venues in the city, including this one the university of edinburgh s old medical school. and before we get stuck in to the comedy, we are going to talk about medicine specifically medical waiting times. now, if you re waiting for surgery, it can feel like an eternity and we all know that waiting times are longer than anyone would want. but one nhs trust in england is trialling an artificial intelligence that might be able to manage waiting lists better and, ultimately, bring
as monarch this morning, before travelling to scotland. it s monday 12th september. people here in edinburgh will be the first members of the public to file past the coffin of queen elizabeth ii this evening, as scotland bids it s final farewell. evening, as scotland bids its final farewell. king charles iii will accompany the queen s coffin as it travels from here at the palace of holyroodhouse, along the royal mile to st giles cathedral where it will remain under continuous vigil for 2h hours. yesterday thousands of mourners lined the route as the coffin made the 175 mile journey from balmoral down to edinburgh, as judith moritz reports. balmoral was the queen s most beloved home. scotland her place of refuge. how fitting, then, that it s across this land that she is beginning her finaljourney. these were the hills she knew. the forests she enjoyed. and the communities she felt closest to. all along the route, crowds returned that affection. and then, a majestic sight, as
is unshakeable as he arrives in israel at the start of his first middle east tour. a judge tells amber heard she has no grounds for a retrial after her ten million dollar defamation trial againstjonny depp. welcome to newsday. it s six in the morning in singapore, and three thirty in the morning in sri lanka where president gotabaya has not honoured his promise to resign. he flew out of the country, to the maldives, about 2k hours ago. but in a public letter, he said he was appointing the prime minister to be the acting head of state while he was absent. that s led to anger among protestors, who wanted both men to quit. meanwhile, a curfew is in force and the prime minister and now acting president ranil wickremesinghe has told the military to do whatever is necessary to restore order. from colombo, our south asia correspondent rajini vaidya nathan reports. their target heavily guarded. their mood determined. as news spread that prime minister ranil wickremesinghe h
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nasa says it will go ahead and launch the most powerful rocket its ever built. good morning and welcome to bbc news. a manhunt is underway in liverpool after a nine year old girl was shot dead. police say an unknown man is reported to have fired a gun inside a house in the knotty ash area of the city at around ten o clock last night. a man and a woman also suffered gunshot injuries in the attack. ian byrne is the labour mp for liverpool west derby, where this attack happened. he spoke to breakfast earlier this morning. i think devastating is a good way of putting it. we are still going to process what we have heard overnight. it is absolutely devastating that a wholly innocent nine year old young girl has been sadly murdered and i think we are all struggling to process it is a community, in west derby in liverpool and across the country. i think as a moves forward i have heard as much as everybody else, really, we need to hearfrom heard as much as everybody else, really, we