good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. dentists are to be offered a £20,000 bonus if they set up practice in areas of england with the poorest access to nhs dental care. there will also be incentives to treat patients who haven t been seen for at least two years, and to get dental services into schools. the health secretary, victoria atkins, said the plan would bring immediate and long term solutions. but the british dental association warned that fundamental change is needed. here s our health editor, hugh pym. long queues outside a new dental practice in bristol highlighted the increasing frustration about the lack of nhs treatment. some areas have been branded dental deserts. and this morning, nicky campbell s 5live phone in was full of calls about problems finding an nhs dentist appointment. i had ihad an i had an appointment before christmas and i got a letterfrom the dentist saying it had been cancelled. they explained how they weren t offering nhs appointm
hello from the bbc sport centre. hello i m chetan pathak with your latest sports news we start at afcon the 34th edition of the africa cup of nations has reached the semi final stage with both matches on wednesday. the hosts ivory coast play the democratic republic of congo but before that it s the other heavyweights nigeria. who play south africa. and they ve been given a massive boost with striker victor osimhen declared fit to play who had been a doubt with an abdominal problem. it s a rematch of the 2000 afcon semi final which nigeria won and was the last time south africa reached the last four. this time their coach is hoping they can go one step further: i think for many people it was unexpected. but we did it, and that means that south africa became a good team. it s also more than 20 years ago that south africa played the semifinal, even more that we play the final. that means that we ve got a lot of motivation. meanwhile, ivory coast have never won the competit
tonight s attack was specifically against militia leadership. this is causing some diplomatic trouble for the u.s. look, it was a mess what happened here, but we re cleaning it up. vote comes to the floor. turns out border security is actually not a risk to our national security. it is just a talking point for the election. thank you also for the kind messages of support for catherine and for my father. especially in recent days. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo. max has the day off. it is thursday, february 8, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington, d.c. where we re just hours away from the u.s. supreme court taking up the first case that could impact this year s presidential election. it is a crucial hearing to determine whether states can classify donald trump as an insurrectionist and thereby dis
it s eight in the morning in singapore, and 3am in baghdad which has been struck by a us drone attack which killed a senior leader of an armed pro iran group. three people were killed in the attack, including a commander of the group that us officials say was behind recent attacks on us bases in iraq and syria. this was the scene in baghdad earlier tonight. angry crowds surrounded the burnt out vehicle chanting america is the biggest devil . our senior international correspondent orla guerin is in baghdad for us tonight she tried to get close to the scene of this attack. this was a high profile strike inside the capital. it happened at 930 at night to local time there were distinct explosions that were audible from our hotel we reached the scene very quickly. an angry crowd had gathered around the charred wreckage of the car which had been hit we know a drone strike a powerful pro iranian official. with the attack in jordan that killed three service personnel. they were