scratch his belly (electronic music) (cheering) (jayda): my name is jayda guy and my artist name is jayda g. - the disco house queen, black girl magic. she s about to take it to the next level. ( ) (jayda): i ve found success as a dj. now it s about using my platform for something that i believe in. not only am i a musician, but i also have ten years experience in field biology. i m definitely a nerd! (laughing) i ve been touring the world with my music, and now i want to focus on what s happening to our planet. the hardest thing when it comes to climate change is that it just feels so big and overwhelming. i like to concentrate on the stories where there is hope because they are out there. (clapping) (laughing) i m going to visit coastal communities that have a new ally in the fight against climate change. it s called blue carbon . these are habitats which can conserve biodiversity. sorry, i m way too happy! (laughing) protect our cities against storms and rising seas. and
simon stevens, who set out his priorities for the health service today, said it was part of the trade off for improvements in other areas, like cancer care. he s been speaking to our health editor, hugh pym. the nhs serves patients from cradle to grave, but there are difficult choices, and the message today is that it offers high quality care in many areas, but something has to give, and that s waiting lists for routine surgery, for patients like christine. she waited 22 weeks for a heart bypass operation, longer than nhs england s 18 week target. it s caused her a lot of anxiety and she s decided to go private. the sword of damocles hanging over my head, because i couldn t plan my life. i couldn t say categorically i m going to be able to do something . i feel i am getting not worse, but more tired. the head of nhs england explained his immediate priorities, including a&e and cancer care, to health staff today, but waiting lists for routine operations will, for a while, get
first in our world, bbc journalist basheer al zaidi, who grew up in mosul, returns to the city as it is liberated from the islamic state. mosul, iraq s second city, home to over a million people and the scene of the greatest victory of the so called islamic state. allahu akbar. in just four days is fighters managed to seize this entire city. it was a national disaster for iraq and declared the start of the self styled islamic state. almost three years later and mosul has once again become a battleground. the iraqi forces have regrouped and are now fighting back. street by street they are moving closer to capturing the city, but the threat of is remains. i am bbcjournalist bashir al zaidi, born and raised in mosul. today i am returning home. i want to find out what life is like in the city and how people have coped with the past two and a half years. and the question, whether the iraqi military that collapsed only a few years ago can really bring lasting security to the city.
to buy their first home. but it s emerged nearly four thousand families earning more than a hundred thousand pounds a year have benefited from the help to buy housing scheme in england. our business correspondent joe lynham has the details. but for the government s help to buy scheme, lina hannon and her husband would have needed an additional five to ten years before they could afford their own place in harrow. she does worry, though, that some high earners were also allowed to use the scheme. it does bother me a bit that some people that didn t really need the scheme use the scheme. but, to be fair, i think that the fact that the scheme was able to help people like me, and i know that a lot of people benefited from this scheme, it makes me feel happy. introduced four years ago to encourage house building and help mostly first time buyers get on the ladder, 250,000 properties have been bought using the help to buy schemes. but research suggests that existing homeowners from
our world. mosul, iraq s second city, home to over a million people and the scene of the greatest victory of the so called islamic state. allahu akbar. in just four days, is fighters managed to seize this entire city. it was a national disaster for iraq and declared the start of the self styled islamic state. almost three years later and mosul has once again become a battleground. the iraqi forces have regrouped and are now fighting back. street by street, they are moving closer to capturing the city, but the threat of is remains. i am bbcjournalist bashir al zaidi, born and raised in mosul. today, iam returning home. i want to find out what life is like in the city and how people have coped with the past two and a half years. for the past two and a half years. and the question, whether the iraqi military that collapsed only a few years ago, can really bring lasting security to the city. it has been over ten years since my last visit. i grew up on these streets with my 11 bro