virginia langerberg, bbc news. the award—winning jazz and pop singer, aljarreau, has died in a los angeles hospital, just days after announcing he was retiring due to exhaustion. he was 76. now it's time to take a look at the prospects here for the weather with john hammond. after the last few days, i'm sure many of you are crying out for a change in fortunes. fast forward a few days, and we can see a transformation, with blue skies and sunshine, and temperatures will have lea pt up sunshine, and temperatures will have leapt up again. that is the message over the next few days, slowly and surely it will be turning milder. a slow process, we still have got those easterly winds, but the source of the air is no lug rusher but down in the mediterranean, which is why the wind is why the wind isn't as cold as it has been. still not exactly warm, quite an edge to it, but further south and west, sunshine makes all the difference with the gloom of the weekend. it will be windy, especially across the coast and hills of wes

virginia langerberg, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news... north korea has fired a ballistic missile into the sea ofjapan. the launch is the first since president trump was elected. the speaker of the house of commons, john bercow, is facing renewed criticism after a video has emerged of him declaring that he voted remain in the eu referendum. labour's deputy leader, tom watson, has said the party's leadership is "settled for this parliament". thousands of operations are being cancelled, with highly—skilled surgeons left "kicking their heels" because of a shortage of hospital beds. that's the warning from the royal college of surgeons today, the organisation that represents nhs trusts. in a joint letter to the sunday times, they argue that a lack of funding for health and social care in england is leading to what they call a "shocking waste" and damaging efforts to improve efficiency. nhs england says only 1% of operations are cancelled. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes has more. over the past few weeks, the bbc two documentary serie

virginia langerberg, bbc news. the award—winning jazz and pop singer aljarreau has died in a los angeles hospitaljust days after announcing he was retiring due to exhaustion. he was 76. jarreau was acclaimed for his versatility, winning seven grammy awards across jazz, pop and r&b categories. thousands of operations are being cancelled with highly—skilled surgeons left "kicking their heels" because of a shortage of hospital beds. that's the warning from the royal college of surgeons and the organisation that represents nhs trusts. in a joint letter to the sunday times, they argue that a lack of funding for health and social care in england is leading to what they call "a shocking waste" and damaging efforts to improve efficiency. nhs england says only 1% of operations are cancelled. our health correspondent dominic hughes has more. over the past few weeks, the bbc two documentary series, hospital, has demonstrated how a shortage of beds contributes to the pressure on the health service. this can lead to long wa

virginia langerberg, bbc news. some breaking news. an update on the story we have been reporting earlier about the closure earlier today of hamburg airport following reports that people were suffering breathing difficulties, nausea, because of some non—substance that had been released into the air. it is thought to be in the passenger check—in area. we have had an update from the website of one of the leading newspapers in germany. the forest service say a cartridge of peppers spray was found in a rubbish bin at the airport. it appears the spray had gone off and had been sucked into the air conditioning system and dispersed through the building, which is why people were suffering the effects of nausea, as i say, eye irritation and so on, breathing difficulties. a number of people had to be treated. four dozen people we re to be treated. four dozen people were treated. the airport was briefly closed. the fire brigade saying there have been a number of insta nces saying there have been a number of instances recently of people in and

virginia langerberg, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news... north korea has fired a ballistic missile into the sea ofjapan. the launch is the first since president trump took office. the speaker of the house of commons, john bercow, is facing renewed criticism after a video has emerged of him declaring that he voted remain in the eu referendum. labour's deputy leader, tom watson, has said the party's leadership is "settled for this parliament". and in sport, the six nations game between france and scotland started is between france and scotland started 15 minutes ago, that is a 3—0 lead following a lopez penalty for france. brady scored a stunning free kick to score burnley level will chelsea, chelsea could go 12 points clear at the top of the premier league if they went, with just a couple of minutes left and it is still i—i. hearts and hibernian will need a fourth—round replay to discourage or makes the fourth round after a goalless draw, and it is 1—1 between rangers and greenock morton. details on those and a lot more coming up and

virginia langerberg, bbc news. we bringing you the results of the bafta awards as they're coming in. we had won a few moments the outstanding british film, i, daniel blake. the rising star award, which goes to one individual and is voted on by the general public, that goes to british actor tom holland. he is carving out a great early career in hollywood. he is the new spiderman, for example. the rising star award at the baftas goes to tom holland. the biggest awards night for british film, the baftas, is getting under way at the royal albert hall in london with hundreds of fans queuing to see the contenders arrive on the red carpet. la la land leads the way with 11 nominations, and i, daniel blake has won the outstanding british film prize. the duke and duchess of cambridge have also joined the stars at the ceremony. prince william will present the bafta fellowship, which is awarded annually to an individual in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film, television or games. british and holl

just to warn you, you might find some of the scenes in this report by virginia langerberg distressing. weary volunteers form a human chain to help guide the remaining few whales out to sea with the help of a high tide. justjoy, just complete happiness that they're in the water floating. and they look like they are going out, so we're obviously making sure that they don't come back. this time, rescuers are buoyed by the success of saving most of this pod. just they are bright! it's been a pretty full—on couple of days, to be honest. 0n the remote coastline of golden bay, it had been a exhausting case of deja—vu, after a second pod of about 200 pilot whales had become stranded just days after a group of more than 400 whales had accidentally beached themselves. the incident was new zealand's la rgest—known whale stranding since 1985 and the third largest on record. of the pod which became stranded on thursday, around 300 died before rescuers could reach them. while, in the latest pod to get stuck on farewell spit, 20 whales in a bad condition needed to be put down to stop those ref

virginia langerberg reports. in the hilly suburbs on the outskirts of christchurch, flames light up the night sky. hundreds of residents have been evacuated and a state of emergency declared in the city and the neighbouring district of selwyn. at least 11 homes have already been lost. i wouldn't say it is out of control cos we have resources working on it. but it is heavy material and once it gets burning, it is hard to stop. the fire broke out in two separate places on monday in the dry hills south of christchurch, before merging into one blaze, which now covers about 1,800 hectares. as 130 firefighters on the ground try to get the upper hand on the blaze, they're being assisted by 1a helicopters and three aircraft, while the military has also been deployed to provide water tankers and personnel. authorities are warning locals not to leave their escape plans too late, while those evacuated wait anxiously. we've been up pretty much all night since we got evacuated, keeping an eye on it. my neighbours up the hill