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since 201? in a friendly and two since 2017 in a friendly and that was also goalless. you can get updates from that game, aswell as the other international games today — with france facing germany — on the bbc sport website. thanks for watching. that's all from sportsday. we'll see you soon. thanks to cabin and a sports team in salford. now let's return to the princess of wales and her cancer diagnosis. earlier, i spoke tojon shelton — head of cancer intelligence at cancer research uk, who spoke to me about the impact a cancer diagnosis can have on a young family. i'lljust start off by saying that on behalf of everyone at cancer research uk, we wish the royal highness a full swift recovery and return to good health. the braveness in coming out and sharing the message yesterday will be very difficult
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for the family, as it has been of receiving that diagnosis in the first place. sharing it with the family and with the children, the difficult message that is for them. we're bringing it out, bring in the public, allowing us to talk about it also allows us to kind of think about ourselves and how cancer can affect us, how we know our bodies, and what we can do about if we think something might be wrong with our body, something that might feel different, to actually go and get it checked out yourself, contact your gp and don't wait or ignore it. it's much better to go and get some help, get support, get it checked out so we can see if there is something wrong. if it is cancer, the earlier we can detect it, the earlier we can diagnosis and start treatment. the much better the chances of positive outcomes. yeah, of course, when king charles had his cancer diagnosis, there was a big rise in people coming forward to get checked out. one of the big questions i saw today that people are searching is "what is preventative chemotherapy?" perhaps you might be able to explain that for us. yeah, so with many different cancer types,
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surgery will be the main attempt at curative treatment. but with surgery or with attempt to remove the tumour, there is a chance that there is a very small bit of tumour kind of left behind. so chemotherapy and what we call adjuvant chemotherapy is therefore used to try to prevent that cancer from coming back or recurring, as we generally refer to it. so the chemotherapy is used after the surgery. it's there to try to mop up any tiny bit of cancer that is left in the body to make sure that it's really reducing that chance of cancer returning in future. kate, in her video message, was very positive. we don't know what the type of cancer is, but i assume that her age and the fact that it has been caught are both very positive. it is. i mean, putting it in perspective, in women, only about 3% of cancers that are diagnosed in women are diagnosed around the a0 to 45—year—old age group. so it is less common. most cancers are diagnosed in older people, but we do have kind of over 1,000 cancers diagnosed every day. so there are lots of people across the uk getting
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this news of cancer. and so it's really, really, really important to kind of think about how we kind of share this, how we talk about it, and how this kind of comes back to how we think about ourselves searching for help where we can can get to it. having her royal highness kind of be so open and sharing the news with us about her cancer diagnosis can just lead towards thinking about ourselves and, say, searching for information a bit more ofjust knowing your body, responding to your body, and knowing if there's something is concerning for you to seek help. and that can be the start of actually finding something, treating it early and the best outcomes could come from it. yeah, you talk about talking about it and is there impact on the wider family as well? how do you advise people particularly to explain to young children like george, charlotte and louis that their mother's got cancer? yeah, i mean, receiving a diagnosis even for an individual is extremely difficult, to then sharing it with other adults can be extraordinarily tough. sharing that with your children as well is a really difficult thing to do.
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it's really not easy. there are resources out there that can help. being prepared is really kind of crucial for that. cancer research uk has resources about talking to children. there are other organisations that have plenty of resources out there that can help. it's really important to kind of take the time in explaining it to children. you don't have to tell them everything at once. parents usually know their children best and the best way to kind of communicate with them, but being honest with them, there'll be often times that children will have questions that we might not be able to answer, and it's ok to not have all the answers. going through that course of treatment, you will get different answers from your clinician as you kind of go. so it's ok not to have all the answers at once, but there's also a consideration of letting others kind of know about it as well, for example, carers or teachers so that they know what's happening so they can help support your child. or if a child perhaps responds a day or two later, or is in an unusual mood,
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that they're aware of what's going on in the family situation. so that communication with the families is really important and but it is a very difficult thing to do. and using the support that's available to people, it's really important. that's john shelton from cancer research uk talking to me a little earlier. let's return to the israel—gaza war. the first british field hospital has been set up in gaza, and is aiming to be fully functioning early next week. the hospital was sent by truck from manchester to provide life—saving medical treatment for the sick and injured in gaza. it has been established by a team from the aid organisation, uk med, which deploys many nhs staff to emergencies. uk med already has surgical teams working in the al aqsa hospital, the only hospital still functioning in the centre of the gaza strip. from jerusalem, our senior international correspondent, 0rla guerin, sent this report. wheeled through the chaos, 12—year—old anas, another young victim of israel's assault on gaza. he's on his way to surgery in al aqsa hospital, a team from uk med standing by.
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so, we got the patient with a femoral fracture. he is a very brave boy. so, let's go. anas says he was playing when his neighbourhood was bombed. he was injured, and his mother and six—month—old baby brother were killed. "may god have mercy on their souls," he says. the surgery goes well. it's one of hundreds the team have performed at the hospital. performed at the hospital where they have been faced with desperate need and some of the worst that war can do. i've worked in many war zones over the past nine years and i think what shocks me about this particular context is the number of children injured that we are seeing, and the extent of the injuries. they are life—changing injuries that
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a child will have to live with. with gaza's hospitals overwhelmed and sometimes under israeli attack, the uk team have been building a new facility. it's in the desert sands north of rafah. they got started with local timber from destroyed buildings, when theirfield hospital was held up at the border. it took a lot of negotiation to get land, and to get things across the border. it's been a challenge to find staff, a challenge to communicate — none of the phones work, the internet doesn't work, and everything somehow has to be made to work in order to bring essential, urgent, life—saving services to people. they are already seeing about 100 outpatients a day here, and expect to double that soon. the doctors are ready to treat everything from minor illnesses to gunshot wounds. and if israel carries out a ground invasion of rafah, as it's threatening to do, this field hospital could be crucial.
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0rla guerin, bbc news, jerusalem. from jerusalem, i want to take you to live pictures we are getting in from tel aviv where there are protesters on the street, and thousands of people are reported to have taken to the streets of tel aviv calling for free elections and a deal for hostages still held by hamas in gaza. in this speed we have coming in, you can see the israeli security forces there and there was a water cannon and police trying to ring the crowds under control and you can see them pushing those protesters under a bridge that is there. —— this feed. some of the protesters say the government isn't doing enough to secure the release
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of israeli hostages and they temporarily blocked a main road in the city and we are hearing that similar protests are also taking place injerusalem and other cities around the country but there you can see the security forces facing off with some of those protesters that are in tel aviv. we will keep an eye on those pictures. here in the uk, the father of damilola taylor, who was killed aged 10, has died. richard taylor — who was 75 and seen here with the dark red tie on — had spent years campaigning for disadvantaged children after his son was stabbed to death, with a broken bottle, in 2000 in peckham in south london. he set up the damilola taylor trust to campaign against knife crime. dr olu coker is a trustee at the damilola taylor trust and knew richard closely. he's told us a little about richard's campaign work. he turned his personal tragedy into purpose and he believed that young people,
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given the right support, can walk on the path of contributing to the community rather than being the problem, so he had this vision that he wants to get all young people engaged in positive activity. he believed you've got talent, he believed you have skills, he believed with support, they can excel, and that has been the focus of his work over many decades, so far, at the other stage of the trust, he focused on getting people into careers and he collaborated with the king's college to give access to disadvantaged people coming to the medical profession and he also campaigned in schools around issues of knife crime. he launched number of projects from the platform of the damilola taylor trust to equip people with the right skills to access work. we brought you earth hour
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in a paris a little earlier. here is the exact moment of the eiffel tower went dark. you can see that it will be plunged into darkness in paris. this is all part of earth hour, and the global event aims to raise awareness of environmental issues and the impact of climate change and we are expecting the uk to observe that in around half an hour's time and we will keep nye in central london for those landmarks that go dark, but now let's get a look the weather with ben rich. —— we will keep an eye. hello, it was a day of dodging the downpours. some really heavy showers out there driven by some big storm clouds, including this one captured by one of our weather watchers in surrey, the lumpy shape here indicative of what we call mammatus clouds that form when the air is very turbulent, very unstable, and you can see that unstable air, all driven by an area of low pressure, allowing these big storm clouds to bubble up. a brisk north—westerly wind blowing those showers and storms through. the centre of our area of low pressure moving out
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into the north sea overnight. but still quite windy for eastern scotland and eastern england and still some showers in northeast scotland which will be wintry over high ground and clear spells elsewhere and because of the strength of the wind, it will not be a particularly cold night but still getting down to around three or six degrees so that area of low pressure sliding away eastwards and very briefly a ridge of high pressure, which you can barely see on the chart, and there is then another weather system approaching from the west. so, for sunday it is really a window of fine weather with some showers and still some brisk winds down this east coast. still some showers at times in northern scotland and then through the afternoon, cloud thickening up across northern ireland and maybe some rain into western counties by the very end of the day and also perhaps into the west of cornwall and parts of pembrokeshire. not as chilly as it has been today — eight to 12 degrees. and then here comes this frontal system as we move on into monday but instead of sweeping through quickly, it sort of meanders and takes its time, it does dawdle,
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this weather front. so, not moving through quickly, in fact, rainjust lingering across western england, wales, northern ireland and if the rain get into central and southern parts of scotland we could see some significant snow developing over the high ground. we keep hold of some sunshine in the south—east corner, if that happens, we may get up to 12 degrees. by tuesday, many of us will be left in some relatively cold air so any showers we see in the north of the uk could be wintry over high ground and a slow—moving band of rain could sit over south—west england and the channel islands and it'll be a very wet day here and this a very wet day here and these temperatures, no great shakes, seven to 11 degrees. as we head to the end of the week and into easter weekend, it looks very unsettled with bouts of rain and turning very unsettled particularly in the south but cold air may linger in the north of the uk.
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live from london. this is bbc news. four gunmen are arrested after 133 people were killed in a moscow concert hall attack — president putin vows they will be punished. the islamic state group says it was behind the attack — releasing a photo of four masked men it says were involved. and an outpouring of support for the princess of wales — after she revealed she's in the early stages of cancer treatment. and the health ministry in gaza says nineteen people — waiting for aid — have been killed by israeli forces. the israeli army denies firing on the crowd. hello, i'm nicky schiller.
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we start this hour in russia. president putin says all those involved in the attack on a concert hall near moscow — which killed at least 133 people — will be punished. in moscow, people have been leaving flowers in memory of those who died and we've seen candles being lit. others have queued to donate blood for the victims of the massacre. memorials also appeared outside russian embassies in several countries, including the uk. a national day of mourning has been declared for sunday. armed police have been patrolling the area around the crocus city hall. in a televised address, president putin called the attack a �*barbaric terrorist act,�* and said all four gunmen had been detained. the islamic state group says it carried out the attack and released a photograph of four masked men. our first report is from our russia editor, steve rosenberg who has been to the scene, and a warning, you may find some of the details in his report, upsetting.
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it was hard to believe that only yesterday,

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