more than 70 people have been killed in recent days. new data suggests covid cases in england are at their lowest since august. but there are concerns about a variant first identified in india. the largest tunnelling machine used in a uk rail project starts work under the chiltern hills on the h52 high speed link. jazz music. and, the power of music that is changing the lives of some people living with dementia. and coming up in the sport later in the hour on the bbc news channel. 12,000 manchester city and chelsea fans will be heading to portugal later this month as porto is confirmed for champions league final. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at 0ne. new figures have laid bare the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on the nhs in england. the number of people waiting for routine hospital treatment has hit nearly five million the highest since records began. as the nhs concentrated on tackling covid, the numbers waiting for treatment for other illnesses soared.
paul is a remarkably gifted man, whose love of music will now help thousands of other people with dementia across the uk. graham satchell, bbc news. what a beautiful piece. time for a look at the weather. here s tomasz schafernaker. thank you. a day of downpours today. in fact, it has been pouring across some parts of south western britain in the last 2a hours or so. not everybody is getting the downpours today but there are many of them around. for example, in devon in the last 2a hours, we have had more rainfall than we get in the whole of may. you can see a whole line of heavy rain stretching from the london area, just north of the ma, clipping south eastern parts of wales. furthershowers clipping south eastern parts of wales. further showers are breaking out across the rest of wales, lancashire, into the lake district and also we will see showers breaking out across parts of scotland and northern ireland. i think there is a few locations where we won t see many shells, ea
so what are your rights to a refund? i ll look at all you need to know. the winding road to the champions league final. uefa are expected to announce that the venue will be moved from istanbul to porto later today. good morning. today we have rain across the south western quarter of the uk. it is currently quite heavy but will turn shari as it goes southwards and eastwards. for most of us, it is a day of sunshine and showers. the details coming up. it s thursday, the 13th of may. our top story. israel s president has warned of a senseless civil war and world leaders have appealed for calm, as violence continued overnight. palestinian militants launched dozens of rockets at israel, after israeli air strikes destroyed a tower block in gaza city and killed senior commanders. 67 palestinians and seven israelis have now died since the clashes began on monday. courtney bembridge has this report, and a warning there are some flashing images. it was another night of explosions in g
we will head straight to the middle east. these are live pictures, the view from southern israel, a cross over into gaza and the reason being, we just have in the last 90 minutes, two hours or so, the latest figures have been released by the health industry in gaza. saying that over 25,000 people have now been killed since october seven in gaza. these figures released by the hamas run health ministry there, hamas is a prescribed terrorist organisation by many countries including the uk and the us. israel disputes the numbers provided, by hamas, but doesn t provided, by hamas, but doesn t provide its own. those are the latest figures we have, 25,105 palestinians killed in gaza. 62,681 injured. both of those figures since october seven. injured. both of those figures since 0ctoberseven. let s injured. both of those figures since october seven. let s get the latest 0ctober seven. let s get the latest on the attack on the air base in iraq used in the us. the uss iranian backed mi
defence secretary grant shapps is here to answer that question. how would yvette cooper, who wants to be labour s home secretary, manage the risk at home? and in the latest of our election year interviews, the first minister of scotland claims he knows what s going to happen. it is undoubtedly the case that keir starmer doesn t need scotland to win. he s going to be the next prime minister of the uk. how does he know? morning, morning. welcome to you, and welcome to my trio at the desk simon reeve, intrepid explorer who s been travelling round the world making tv for more than 20 years. lucky for some! conservative baroness nicky morgan, who was in the cabinet, and businessman, multimillionaire and philanthropist sir tom hunter. let s start with what s making the news. the bbc website is leading on the latest utterance from the israeli prime minister saying a two state solution can t be the answer to the conflict in the middle east. the papers are a mixed bunch. the sunday