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Doctors say us secretary of defence lloyd austin is being treated for prostate cancer and that his prognosis is excellent. but the white house says they didn't know about his diagnosis until today. they also say they did not know he was under general anaesthesia during his surgery in december. it's also emerged that the pentagon didn't notify the white house or austin's deputy until three days after he had been hospitalized. the delays and apparent secrecy over his healthcare treatment has sparked a political row in recent days. this is what the pentagon's press secretary had to say on the iss...

It is the president that has violated the constitutional order in the first place. what the new government is saying is that everyone is equal before the law. what the opposition of the law. what the opposition of the former government was saying is that these two men are the first two political prisoners in donetsk era. the way things are panning out, we are bound to see more of this in the coming days and months. thank you so much. that is it from me. to stay with us. more on those stories coming up. you are watching bbc news. hello, there. this time last week, low pressure dominated the wea...

Still not home and we meet the families almost on an everyday basis and we talk to them, and we feel the pain, because we were there, we were there in the pain when it happened and we saw everything and we felt it. there is still unidentified victims, that is what we do in our organisation, to make sure that everybody should be identified and honoured and respected the remains and the families and to give them the full dignity. and we will keep it up. i know you're actually right now in the united states meeting with us lawmakers. given how difficult this must be, why is it so important to you...

We will have some clearer skies into sheltered western scotland, and also some sunshine across central and southern england, but cloud will tend to come and go into northern ireland, northern england, for a time, and some of that cloud may well just push that little bit further south, as the wind changes to more of a subtle, north—easterly by the course of thursday. once again, temperatures between five and eight degrees, our overall high. now, as we move into friday and the start of the weekend, we keep this quiet theme. it is still going to be on the chilly side, but again there will be a ...

Austin was in hospital being treated for a condition that nobody in the white house anyway seemed to know that he had. republicans of course called for lloyd austin to be removed from his post. the white house has said it has complete confidence in him. because of the way all this was handled, it raised questions about transparency on the part of us defence officials and of course the competency of those at the pentagon. it is course the competency of those at the pentagon.— at the pentagon. it is a much. david willis — at the pentagon. it is a much. david willis live _ at the pentagon. it...