Has virtually gone. Good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. The environment secretary George Eustice has told the bbc that the government will look at any recommendations made to change the rules around lobbying. Inquiries have begun into former Prime Minister David Camerons communications with Cabinet Ministers while working for the collapsed firm, greensill capital. It comes as a Senior Conservative mp warns borisjohnson hell lose support from former Labour Voters unless he resolves the lobbying row. Our Political Correspondent nick eardley has this report. David camerons lobbying of ministers on behalf of a Finance Company he worked for has led to wider questions about the relationship between government and the private sector and about possible conflicts of interest. A number of inquiries have been set up to look at the issues. The environment secretary used to work for mr cameron. He insisted his former boss hadnt broken the rules, but there was a hint the rules might need to change. It may be something that is. That is looked at, as a result of all this and i said theres a number of parliamentary committees that are exploring it. It absolutely does matter to the Prime Minister, which is why he set up a review. But not to you, you dont think theres a big problem . No, what im saying is there may be a problem, which is why weve set up a review. Theres concern this row will impact on trust in politics. Lobbying is part of what goes on here, lots of people try to influence their mps in different ways. But listen to this, from a senior tory. Boris defeated what he regarded, had described as, an out of touch elite in the 2016 referendum and won a general election victory. He is seen as different from his predecessors. And has won a lot of support as a consequence. And he will lose that support, unless he acts decisively now. Labours Rachel Reeves faced questions this morning, too, about why the former labour First Minister of wales took a job despite being advised not to by an independent committee. The party thinks the rules, more broadly, need tightening up. What weve seen this week is that tory sleaze is back and that its bigger than ever. We need real change to restore trust in our democracy and in the very essence of public service, which matters to so many of us and matters to people in our country. Weve seen a steady stream of questions in recent weeks about the connections between politics and private companies. Many, from government to opposition, are now looking for answers. Nick eardley, bbc news. Police in the Czech Republic say they want to question the two russian men suspected of carrying out the salisbury nerve agent attack after linking them to a fatal explosion four years earlier. 18 Russian Diplomats have been expelled from prague, after the czech government said there was strong evidence moscow was involved in the blast. The foreign secretary dominic raab said the British Government stands in full support of the Czech Republic, and called the actions of Russian Intelligence Services � reckless and dangerous�. Gareth barlow reports. The Czech Republic, 2014. An explosion at an arms depot leaves two people dead, damages nearby homes and sends smoke rising from the ruins. Following years of investigations, the czech authorities allege these two men were behind the blast. Alexander mishkin and anatoliy chepiga, also known as Alexander Petrov and ruslan boshirov, the two russian Intelligence Officers the uk says in 2018 carried out the poisoning of a former russian agent on british soil. Announcing the news on saturday, the czech Foreign Minister said 18 Russian Diplomats would now have to leave the country. Translation as Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic, i made the decision to expel all personnel at the Russian Embassy in prague, identified by our secret services as officers of russia� s secret services. Within 48 hours, 18 staff of the Russian Embassy must leave the Czech Republic. The czech Prime Minister said the two suspects were members of the gru, russia� s military intelligence service. A senior Russian Parliamentarian called the claim absurd. It all follows Tit For Tat Expulsions of diplomats by the us and russia at the end of last week and western concern over the build up of Russian Troops along the ukrainian border. The latest development a serious escalation in a region that is already on a political knife edge. Gareth barlow, bbc news. Our security correspondent Gordon Corera told us that the explosion in the Czech Republic in 2014 was widely assumed to be an accident. But after the salisbury poisonings, investigators went back over the evidence. One of the things they found was an e mail requesting access to the arms depot that blew up with the names of two people who wanted to visit it. When they looked at the pictures attached to the Passport Scans requesting that access, they could see these were the same images as the men that are alleged to have carried out the salisbury poisoning. They had entered the Czech Republic using the same cover names, the same false names they used when they came to the uk in 2018. So a body of evidence built up suggesting that this same unit of Russian Military intelligence had carried out this blast in 2014, possibly targeting a bulgarian arms dealer and then some of those individuals had gone on to carry out the salisbury poisoning. Russia has, of course, denied any role in this but the czechs are clearly taking it seriously, expelling 18 diplomats from russia who they say are intelligence operatives, and suggesting another sign of growing tension over russian intelligence activity. Nhs providers has warned that it will take five years for some hospitals to catch up with the backlog of patient care caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The trusts in england worst impacted, wont return to pre covid levels, for between three to five years. That according to the association which represents nhs trusts. While, nhs providers also says that covid 19 has resulted in the biggest backlog of care in england for 20 years. Earlier, i spoke to the Chief Executive of nhs providers, chris hopson. I started by asking him what he thinks could be done to improve the situation . Well, i think it is going to be a very important and challenging task. What we have said today is that we need a plan, a team plan, between the nhs and the government. On the nhs side, we are going to have to do do a range of different things. We are going to have to be bold and transformational. We are going to need to change the way that we provide some of this care. That� s going to need the government to come up with some extra funding. In the past, you may remember for example, in the early 2000, when we had similar sizes of waiting list problems, we sort of got round it by paying more overtime by using the private sector. This time, particularly given the range of things that we have to do at the same time, we are going to have to be bolder. We are going to have to do adopt, for example, new technology solutions. We are going to have to get trusts working together much more effectively to improve productivity and efficiency but the bit that is really important is that this is a very big challenge. This is. People have been doing some work over the last month to really look at how they will plan to deal with this and the conclusion that they have come to is that, as you have said, in the worst areas, in the areas with the biggest problem, on the current trajectory, they are currently looking at a three to five year period to get through that backlog. Everybody knows that� s not appropriate. We are going to have to do better. We are going to have to work with government to help get a plan to do that. I think you have just set out there how Big A Challenge this is. So, is three to five years too optimistic . No, i don� t think it is. Again, it is really interesting talking to trust Chief Executives as i do every day of the week. They are absolutely clear that every single statistic on the waiting list, there are 4. 7 Million People currently waiting for care, is. They know the pain that people have and they know the impact that this can have. I think what particularly worries people is that we know that if you leave these for too long, you get into places, where for example, people actually experience permanent disability. You get to a point, where actually people will never be able to go back to work. So, every single Trust Executive is aware of the consequence of these delays. But this i� m afraid it� s one of the prices of covid 19, which effectively is, as soon as we got hit with covid 19, we had to dial back on the amount of selective surgery that we were doing. That was the only way that we could create the space to treat covid patients. We are not in the situation because the nhs hasn� t been doing what it should be doing. It� s been having to focus elsewhere and that is the challenge that we have got. And that focus elsewhere on the pandemic, on covid 19, that is likely to affect Staffing Levels within the nhs. I have visited a hospital a few months ago during the pandemic and the majority of the staff that i spoke with there told me that they were really considering their future working within the nhs, so if the Staff Numbers aren� t there, you have an even bigger problem here. Yes, absolutely. I think one of the things that we have been saying is that it is notjust about the many. It is absolutely about having the right size of workforce. So, we know that we need to support our staff, who have been through some very, very difficult periods in the last 12 months but have done some absolutely Amazing Things and we need to retain our staff. We also need to ensure that we grow the workforce but we also know and you are mentioning about how we run covid and ordinary care alongside each other, here is a great example. We know that during covid, we had to take a number of Operating Theatres out of commission. We had to ask anaesthetists because we were short of intensive care unit staff, we had to ask them, who were used to dealing with patients, for example who need mechanical ventilation, we had to ask them to help out with covid 19 patients. One of the problems we face is, you have got to realistically assume that there will be more covid 19 waves, so how do you ensure that at the same time as dealing with those waves, you can allow hospitals to continue to elective surgery activity, so you don� t have to divert the anaesthetists to surgery and you don� t have to divert your Operating Theatres out of commission in order to create makeshift icu you space. So, there is a whole bunch of issues that the nhs faces here about everyone to get through this backlog quicker than three to five years in the workplace, which is what we absolutely must do, we have got to do things differently but we need the government to make the funding available to do that. Chris hobson, the Chief Executive of nhs providers talking to me earlier. The global number of covid 19 deaths has now passed three million. In brazil more than 370 thousand people have now died. Yet the president there refuses to lock down despite a sharp rise in infections. Mark lowen sent us this from sao paolo. Every day, the faces of despair multiply. The food lines in sao paulo� s largest Favela Go On And on. With most here working in the grey economy, covid has destroyed jobs. In the grey economy, queues have more than tripled in recent months, as the pandemic takes lives and livelihoods of brazil� s poorest. For Luciana Firmino and herfamily, this is now their only meal of the day. She lost herjob in a manicure studio with the pandemic and they� re unable to pay the rent. Translation ive lost hope. We will have to live on the street or under a bridge soon. Sometimes, i think i should give my children away to social services. She sobs. With the pandemic, six out of ten brazilians households now lack sufficient access to food. Government hand outs last year helped, but they� ve been reduced as money ran scarce. No such concerns for the wealthiest Food Producers and backers of the president. It� s corn harvest time on frederico da vila� s 1,300 hectares. But with the president � s anti lockdown stance, slow vaccine purchase, and more than 365,000 dead here, his critics call his handling genocidal. The president bolsonaro is not focused on killing anyone, he want to preserve the liberties of the people. He want people to get. To get out, to get work. With the Public Health disaster, economic woes, and a divisive leader, brazil is facing a perfect storm. It urgently needs a way out from the darkness of the pandemic. Mark lowen, bbc news, sao paulo. Meanwhile, in india, more than 200,000 new cases of covid have been recorded for three days in a row, taking the total number to nearly 14. 5 million. It makes it the world� s second worst infected country behind the United States. India has also suffered one of the highest number of fatalities. The headlines on bbc news. A Senior Conservative mp warns borisjohnson he� ll lose the support of so called � red wall� voters in former labour seats unless he resolves the row about lobbying. The two russian men suspected of carrying out the salisbury nerve agent attack three years ago are being sought by police in the Czech Republic. A warning from nhs providers its Chief Executive says it will take five years for some hospitals to catch up with the backlog caused by the pandemic. Sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here� s chetan. Good afternoon. Fans return to wembley later this afternoon, with 4,000 set to be in attendance for the Fa Cup Semi Final between leicester and southampton as part of a government pilot event, tickets have been limited to local residents and key workers. Awaiting the winners in the final are chelsea who ended Manchester City� s hopes of winning a quadruple. They made the breakthrough in the second half as timo werner set up hakim ziyech for the only goal of the game. Leicester and southampton kicks off at 6 30pm with Brendan Rodgers hoping for a reaction from his players after back to back defeats in the league. For me, especially in these moments the ability of self control is very important. What counts most is when you are severely under pressure. So it is important you have that mentality. We want to be in the final, absolutely. We can only do that through performing well. There� s an Old Firm Derby at ibrox just under way in the last 16 of the scottish cup. Rangers are going for the double after clinching their First League Title in a decade, whilst the holders celtic have won the cup four seasons running. It is currently 1 0 to rangers. With about 15 minutes played. Hibs have beaten league 2 stranraer 4 0. Martin boyle on the scoresheet twice. Once from the penalty spot. After the holders Manchester City thrashed aston villa 8 0, there are 14 more matches in the fourth round of the women� s fa cup this afternoon. In the day� s early game birmingham beat coventry 5 1. Claudia walker on her 50th appearance for the club scoring the openerfor birmingham. Next to the English Premier League where third from bottom fulham, fighting for survival, Have Maja Penalty four points from safety with win. Kicking off in about 45 minutes, Manchester United take on burnley at old trafford. Birmingham city have moved nine points clear of the championship drop zone, after scoring a late winner away to fellow strugglers rotherham. It was still 0 0 going into the 88th minute but then birmingham captain harlee dean popped up to score the only goal of the game. They� re up to 18th, while rotherham stay third from bottom four points behind derbyjust above them, although they do have two games in hand. The british number one dan evans may have missed out on the Singles Final at the monte carlo masters, but he has been playing in the doubles final today with his partner neal skupski, they� re at the top of your screen, they were taking on Nikola Mektic and mate pavic. And having squared the match at one set all it wasn� t to be for the british pair, who lost the champions tie break to the very happy croatians. Mark cavendish has ended the tour of turkey in style by winning the final stage. After almost three and a half hours of racing the briton wearing blue on the left of your screen had enough energy left to pip belgium� s Jasper Philipsen to claim his fourth stage win of the race. Spain� sjose manuel diaz was the overall winner. The Reigninig Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge has won the Nn Mission Marathon in the netherlands. It� s his final race before he defends his title at the postponed tokyo games. The kenyan, who� s 36, clocked two hours, four minutes and 30 seconds in his first outing since his shock defeat at last year� s london marathon. The reigning masters champion yan bingtao is through to the second round of the World Snooker championship in sheffield. Resuming his match at 4 4 against martin gould, yan took control of the morning session to come through 10 frames to 6. This afternoon, four times world Championjohn Higgins Hasjust won the first frame against tian pengfei of china, while David Gilbert is 7 3 up against fellow englishman chris wakelin. That� s all the sport for now. You can follow what is happening at a really interesting grand prix at the moment, hamilton was spinning, the moment, hamilton was spinning, the step and is leading, but us crashing really exciting. Thank Conspiracy Theories about coronavirus vaccines and the pandemic have spiked on social media in recent months. What is it like to believe these theories and then to reject the Online Movement with which you� ve been involved . Our specialist reporter Marianna Spring spoke to one woman about her experiences. Conspiracy theories, including about vaccines, have boomed on social media during the pandemic and family and friends of those who believe them have been voicing their concerns. Catherine knows better than most what that is like. Nowadays, she lives a quiet life in the Isle Of Wight with her family but she used to be an ardent believer in Conspiracy Theories including that vaccines are part of a sinister global plot to kill millions of people. I felt extremely part of a club when i was a conspiracy theorist. And i do see it as, sadly, a bit of a cult. I hate to refer to and even access as cult like because i know myself what it is like to be on that side and i would have hated to be referred to as that. Her believe in Conspiracy Theories stem from the antiestablishment upbringing but then along came social media and it opened up a whole new world of anti vaccine content. There were hundreds of youtube videos, facebook videos, means, there were hundreds of youtube videos, facebook videos, memes, articles, clips that will catch your attention in the news feed. Followed down online an online rabbit hole often refers to youtube. Systems for recommending videos will serve one� s a bit similar to those you have already watched. The company says it has changed its algorithm and removes harmful anti vaccine content but critics say social media sites have continued to push conspiracy to millions during the pandemic. There is a fundamental system trying to produce similar minded content and until we get to grips with that fundamental Business Model with these companies we are going to see real difficulties in challenging specific issues like Covid Disinformation or Conspiracy Theories. Catherine noticed that many promoting Conspiracy Theories were also trying to make money and she started their motives. To question their motives. It was not an overnight euphoric epiphany whatsoever. So, for me, the fundamental thing that enabled me to climb out over this alternative reality was becoming even more critical. You need to be able to listen and understand their fears, understand their concerns. Catherine hopes her experience might help just one person affected by online Conspiracy Theories. And Marianna Spring� s report is part of a special podcast series, the anti vax files, available to stream and download now on the bbc sounds app. A man has been arrested after a metropolitan Police Officer was injured in a hit and run in north west london. The officer suffered lower Body Injuries after being struck while standing outside a stationary Police Vehicle in Dartmouth Park hill on thursday. The met said a 21 year old man who was arrested at an address in the archway area on saturday remains in custody. The United States and china say they are committed to working together on tackling climate change. After several meetings via videocall between the american climate envoy, john kerry, and his chinese counterpart, they also agreed to take action to reduce emissions, as well as to help developing countries to finance a switch to low carbon energy. What was the biggest iceberg in the world has completely broken up. A68, as it was known, measured around 2,300 square miles when it broke away from antarctica, in 2017. Here� s victoria gill. A1 billion tonne block of ice. When iceberg a68 broke away from antarctica back in 2017, it measured more than 2,300 square miles, a quarter the size of wales. It was only by imaging it from space that scientists could actually follow the massive iceberg� s journey as it inched its way north. At one point, it was on a direct Collision Course with the Antarctic Island of south georgia, potentially threatening to cut off vast populations of penguins and seals. But it was off that coast in the open ocean swell that the world� s largest iceberg broke apart. It lasted for years like that, as it moved around, but eventually broke in two, four, five pieces and then those broke up again. But the end point for some of these fragments was quite interesting because just very suddenly overnight, theyjust fragmented into millions of little tiny pieces. And you could see that on the satellite data. And that process, i think, is something that needs studying a little bit more because it might tell us a little bit about how ice shelves break up in the future. A68 being the size of a small country made it the focus of global media attention. But the breaking away, or calving, of these giant icebergs is a natural part of the ebb and flow of the dynamic ice shelf. What we are looking at is the regularity of these events are they becoming more frequent . And Iceberg Calving is a big factor in ice loss from antarctica. So, if these Iceberg Calving events are becoming more frequent, then its a really important factor that we need to be looking at and researching. While a68 will be remembered as a social media star that was visible from space, scientists will now be turning their attention to the newest chasm on the edge of the vast ice sheet and the next giant berg to set off on its own epicjourney. Victoria gill, bbc news. Now, we� re about to meet the british woman known as the felt lady. She� s behind one of the largest exhibitions of original artworks to open in the uk as Lockdown Restrictions ease. Lucy sparrow� s fabric fantasies have gathered fans worldwide and her latest exhibition is a felt pharmacy. Alex stanger has been to visit the National Felt Service chemist on the east coast of england. This is a chemist like no other. All 15,000 items stocked on these shelves are made of felt, created to raise a smile rather than curing illness. Since herfirst uk exhibition in 2014, lucy sparrrow� s felt made shops have popped up in the states and china. All the items on the shelves here are for sale, but it will probably cost you a little bit more than your usual trip to the chemist as they are all art collecta bles. They were made at lucy� s new headquarters in suffolk. Welcome to felt ho. Lucy and her team have been working from this old Ambulance Station for the last year on this exhibition, which will be her first in the uk in five years. Actually, i� m nervous about doing a show back in the uk because us brits are so reserved. You do a show in america and i� m not evenjoking, people start screaming, crying, laughing. The original opening of the show had to be postponed because of Lockdown Restrictions which, according to lucy, has made the exhibition all the more relevant. All my work is focused around presenting the everyday in a way that makes us notice it more. When the pandemic was starting, it was sort of chemists and food shops that were the only places you could go. They became so central to everything that we were going through. Yes, i� d like to think this is the way i reacted to the pandemic by making and immortalising the chemist out of felt. Even if there is a rush on paracetamol, don� t worry, felt favourites will be restocked until the exhibition closes on may 8th. Now it� s time for a look at the weather with susan powell. Hello, you� re going to be hearing us talking a lot about High Pressure through the week ahead, maybe even into next weekend. Consequently, there is a lot of dry weather to come across the uk. Early on sunday we saw some rain inching into Northern Ireland and Western Scotland but this front gets bumped back offshore by the high from scandinavia as we go into monday and in scotland and Northern Ireland the prospect will be looking dry and brighter to start the week. Sky starting to clear across southern and eastern scotland this evening and overnight which will leave us open to a frost here which will be widespread across england and wales. We will see temperatures held up across Western Scotland and Northern Ireland by the presence of more cloud into the small hours. Through monday if anything the sunshine will become more widespread across scotland across today and for the east of Northern Ireland there should be some brightness perhaps a little way in the west. In the sunshine, temperatures up to 14 for belfast, the warmest day of the week generally for the uk, perhaps 17 in southern england. Hello this is bbc news. The headlines. A Senior Conservative mp warns borisjohnson he� ll lose the support of so called � red wall� voters in former labour seats unless he resolves the row about lobbying. The two russian men suspected of carrying out the salisbury nerve agent attack three years ago are being sought by police in the Czech Republic. The czechs, for example, in the past until quite recently have been quite reticent about picking a fight with moscow and it� s quite interesting how you have the czechs now, who are being very robust in their response. A warning from nhs providers it� s Chief Executive says it will take five years for some hospitals to catch up with the backlog caused by the pandemic. Once the world� s largest iceberg but now no more satellite images show the mega berg has virtually gone. Now on bbc news. The media show withjoe tidy. Hello. Scenes of violence in Northern Ireland, threats to journalists, attacks on cameramen. The key question many news rooms are asking right now, how do we cover what� s happening in belfast . There� s been criticism about the slow uptake from london based newsrooms. So what do reporters on the ground who have been covering this for decades think . How are they navigating the volatile story and protecting their staff . Plus french media Giant Banijay licenses many of the uk� s favourite tv shows from masterchef to peaky blinders. So what� s their role in determining the tv we all watch . Let me introduce you today� s guests. Noel doran is editor of the irish news, a daily newspaper based in belfast. Suzanne breen is Political Editor for the belfast telegraph. Marianna spring is the bbc� s disinformation reporter and cathy payne is the Chief Executive of banijayee rights. In overseas a mammoth roster of programmes from black mirror, keeping up with the kardashian to masterchef