and more effective drug treatments. the five year project will look for alzheimer s disease and other forms of dementia. at the moment, about a third of people living with the conditions never get a formal diagnosis. here s our medical editor fergus walsh. what can our blood tell us about our brain? this small trial in oxford is looking for clues. lucy, like many of the healthy volunteers, has a personalfamily motivation for being involved. the main driver for the dementia was because my mother had dementia, and ijust have very close personal experience of how miserable that is. i mean, she wasn t. fortunately, she was relatively old, she was in her 80s when it started, and she died at 97. but her last few years were really mired by the disease. what is your first language? over the next five years, around 5,000 people will take part in research assessing blood tests to see how accurately they can identify various forms of dementia. most notably alzheimer s disease. in alzhei
russell fuller, has more. to deliver record prize money is certainly a step forward and something that the wta can point to as they try and bring about this goal of equal prize money. but steve simon knows that there will be criticism in some quarters. although the players have either been very supportive or not spoken out against it for the most part. he knows he will need to justify his decision and his argument is that by going to re add, tennis is supporting growth and improvement and change across the region. the third seeded dan evans is out of the atp tour event in marrakech. the world number 42 was beaten in straight sets by the defending champion roberto carballes baena. the spaniard moves into the quarter finals. in the premier league, liverpool have the chance to return top in a few hours with victory over bottom of the league sheffield united. the reds dropped to second following arsenal s 2 0 win at home to luton. ahead of the match at anfield, which liverpool wi
conscription to deter vladimir putin. time for a look at the business news now with egon cossou. we start in the uk where the government has unveiled how much companies will have to pay to import certain food from the eu. small imports of things like fish, salami and cheese will attract fees of up to £145 from the end of this month. earlier i spoke to phil pluck. he s the boss of the cold chain federation which represents companies working in the temperature controlled supply chain. i asked him about the impact on food prices. i think it s almost guaranteed to have a negative impact on food prices. food inflation is bound to be affected by the extra cost of administration due to the new food import regulations which are coming in on the 30th of april. so there are two obvious costs. the first cost is actually to the importer, the food producer in europe, they will have to pay for something called an export health certificate issued by a vet to say that their food produce
this is bbc news. the headlines: after israel s strike that killed seven aid workers, the killer of the british police officer sharon beshenivsky has been found guilty of her murder. after israel s strike that killed seven aid workers, more than 600 lawyers sign a letter, calling for the uk to stop arms sales to israel. countries bordering russia urge their nato allies to reintroduce military conscription to deter vladimir putin. and why fewer trees are being being chopped down in the amazon. new data shows a major shift. we speak to the people behind the research. we will be back in brussels for that nato press conference. sport now, and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. hello from the bbc sport centre. i m anne marie batson. we start with tennis, and the news that the saudi arabian capital of riyadh will host the wta finals for the next three years and offer record prize money of $15.25 million. this year s finals, featuring the top eight singles players and double
of aiding and assisting an international wrongful act. the prime minister rishi sunak is already facing growing cross party pressure, after seven aid workers were killed in an air strike. our diplomatic coreespondent james landale has the story. the air strikes that killed international aid workers in gaza have prompted global condemnation, and now they re shaping political choices. more than 600 lawyers have written to the government, urging it to suspend arms sales to israel, because they believe there is a risk it s breaking international law. they said, serious action is needed to avoid uk complicity in grave breaches of international law, including potential violation of the genocide convention. to continue the sale of weapons and weapon system to israel falls significantly short of your government s obligations under international law. the whole framework of international law, governing war, it dictates that the fact that you have been provoked and attacked, howev