a £20,000 payment for 240 dentists to moved to underserved areas, top up payments for dentists to take on new nhs patients and school visits to support tooth brushing and offer children fluoride varnish treatments. let s go to our panel. with me if the deputy director of the centre right think tank onward adam hawkes be an author of cosmopolitan politics on some stack and lease. we will talk to you about the situation in the us in a minute but adam, what do you make of this is the government announced a new plan but there is criticism of it from the dental industry today? there was, and this is a sort of thing there was, and this is a sort of thing that there was, and this is a sort of thing that people expect the government to take care of. when you say to government to take care of. when you say to people what are some of the things you say to people what are some of the things you are for about, cannot get employment, and cannot get a gp or passport employment,
nominations in the scottish national partly leadership national party leadership race close at midday, with humza yousaf, kate forbes and ash regan expected to appear on the ballot paper. and new research for the bbc suggests the price of pasta has nearly doubled in two years for uk consumers with the rate of food price rises still running at almost 17%. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. president volodymyr zelensky has said ukraine will do everything it can to defeat russia this year in a statement marking the anniversary of vladimir putin s full scale invasion. ceremonies are taking place across the country remebering those killed or forced to flee from the conflict. here in the uk, rishi sunak will urge allies to increase military support to ukraine, during a meeting of g7 countries. there will also be a minute s silence across the uk at 11 o clock. ourfirst report comes from our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse. a thud, marking the
about support for taiwan in the event of a piercy attack. clifford hart, national security council s china and taiwan director formally, thank you for speaking to us. we will find out very soon if us presidentjoe biden talks about taiwan and the south china sea in remarks he is expected to deliver after talking to china s president, xijinping. they talked forfour china s president, xijinping. they talked for four hours at an estate near san francisco, they took a nice stroll in the garden afterwards as well. this of course is the first meeting between the two leaders for a year and a day. they last met in bali at the 620 last year. and we may be seeing. no, not president bidenjust and we may be seeing. no, not president biden just yet. you are looking at pictures of the press conference, where we are expecting us presidentjoe biden to deliver remarks after his meeting with china s resident, xijinping. this meeting comes after a year, the first face to face meeting they ve had