We're in the evacuation zone, the area of south Lebanon that Israel has told everyone to leave. And it's not long before we see the mounting human cost of the latest conflict this community is engulfed in.

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A group of mourners is gathered by the side of the road at a temporary cemetery. Huddled around makeshift memorials, some weep, some hug, others stare blankly ahead. They're here to bury four men that they say were medics and social workers. They were not, they say, fighters.

Ehsan Dbouk, a cleric for the group, says they've had to use this site because the men's hometowns are no longer safe.

"We can't bury our martyrs in their villages on the frontline," he says. "We are dealing with an enemy that doesn't distinguish between killing fighters and killing civilians."

That enemy, they claim, represents an existential threat. Israel frames the Iran-backed group, proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK, in exactly the same way. Neither side is showing any sign of backing down.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has rapidly expanded the evacuation zone here. Until three days ago, it stretched from the border in the south with Israel to the Latani River. That has now been extended further north to the Zahrani River, about 25 miles from the border, raising fears of a ground invasion.

More than 800 people have been killed so far in the country and hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced.

But Ehsan dismisses allegations that Hezbollah is dragging the rest of the country into a war it doesn't want and cannot win.

"The displaced are part of the resistance," he says. "Hezbollah was born from their homes. They are the fathers and mothers of those fighting on the frontlines."

You can see how battle-hardened those who stayed behind are. The IDF is fighting more than a force in Hezbollah - it's battling a mindset. And after months of Israeli strikes in the middle of a ceasefire, supporters of Hezbollah believe they are fighting a just war now more than ever.

Nada Harb, a mother and Hezbollah supporter, tells me: "I won't leave, I didn't in the previous wars. I was born in war. But there was no resistance then like Hezbollah. The Israelis used to come at night, break down the door, they kidnapped my brother, my father, my sister, my uncle, and no one was allowed to say anything."

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At her home, she takes us to her balcony to show us three buildings hit by airstrikes. She is exposed, vulnerable, but determined. The IDF insists it's targeting Hezbollah's infrastructure and leadership here.

But the civilian impact is already huge. The bridges, they say, that Hezbollah is using are also critical to civilians. And hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee this war already - many with no power, no shelter and no say in what happens next.

The 54-year-old was given an eight-and-a-half year sentence in January, having last year been found guilty of sexually assaulting two teenage girls in 2022.

Alford, real name John Shannon, rose to fame in the BBC's Grange Hill, before starring as Billy Ray in ITV's firefighter drama London's Burning in the 1990s.

He died at HMP Bure in Norfolk on Friday, the Prison Service said.

A prison service spokesperson said: "John Shannon died in prison on 13 March 2026. As with all deaths in custody, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will investigate."

Shannon attacked the two girls, aged 14 and 15, while they were drunk after a night out at a pub in April 2022.

The trial heard he had intercourse with the 14-year-old and inappropriately touched the older girl while she was half asleep on a sofa.

The 15-year-old said she felt "absolutely sick" and planned to keep it a secret but had a "mental breakdown" to her friend's mother days later.

All of the offences happened at the home of a third girl, whose father was friends with Alford.

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The actor was found guilty at St Albans Crown Court in September last year. When the verdicts were read out, he put his head in his hands, shouting "wrong, I didn't do this".

Chris White, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said the disgraced star was "fully aware of the girls' ages, yet he chose to exploit them".

Rami Malek had singing and piano lessons and worked with a choreographer to transform himself into Freddie Mercury for Bohemian Rhapsody. Natalie Portman went through intensive ballet training for a year for Black Swan.

And according to filmmaker Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro was so dedicated to his boxing training for Raging Bull that he could have gone professional himself.

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This year, Timothee Chalamet is the star who really put the hours in when it comes to learning a new skill.

Nominated for best actor at today's Oscars for his portrayal of the self-absorbed wannabe table tennis champ Marty Mauser in Marty Supreme, such was his commitment to the role he started practising his ping pong back in 2018 - reportedly ensuring a table was with him for filming on other productions including Dune and Wonka.

Ahead of filming for Marty Supreme, Chalamet was paired up with table tennis experts Diego Schaaf and Wei Wang, who coach in Los Angeles and also run Alpha Productions, to help any TV or film producers where ping pong skills are required.

Think Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump, or Courteney Cox and Paul Rudd, Monica and Mike, playing in Barbados in Friends.

Schaaf says he was initially asked to get involved by a friend who had been contacted by filmmaker Josh Safdie. "We went to Timothée's house," he says. "We spent a few minutes at his house playing and I could tell he can do it. He learns very quickly, he's physically quite talented, so it was not going to be a problem."

By this point in 2024, Chalamet was already a decent player. Schaaf and Wang had to sharpen his skills even further.

"He knew what the strokes had to look like, what the timing had to be, that was critical," says Schaaf, 72. "He was completely committed from the beginning, and he said, 'yeah I want to get this right, and we're going to do what it takes to make it look really good'."

Marty Supreme isn't the first example of Chalamet going beyond the basics.

The 30-year-old has been nominated for best actor twice before - for Call Me By Your Name in 2018, and last year for the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown.

For Call Me By Your Name, he learned Italian. For A Complete Unknown, he spent years learning guitar and Dylan's singing style - at the same time as his table tennis.

Schaaf describes him as "hyper-focused" and able to perform at his best when the cameras were rolling.

"Most of us under pressure, perform a little bit less well. He [Chalamet] shares that by the way with Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks missed everything and then as soon as the camera rolls, he wouldn't miss one."

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So if the Oscars were to award A for effort, maybe this one should go to Chalamet.

The only trouble is, he's up against the now favourite Michael B Jordan - the Sinners star who didn't just play one character but two.

But for Schaaf, there is one winner. Acknowledging the fact he is "super biased", he says: "He put in the work, he put in work.

"That's not saying that all the other guys didn't do the work... I'm sure the other guy worked just as hard and did good. I'm glad I'm not the one who has to distinguish between them. But I saw what [Chalamet] did and what he does is super impressive."

Researchers say the findings show it no longer makes sense to reject prostate cancer screening on the one hand while endorsing screening for breast cancer on the other.

Dr Sigrid Carlsson, who led the study at the German Cancer Research Centre, said: "If prostate cancer screening were extended to the wider population, then the outcomes are likely to be very similar to breast cancer."

Prostate cancer kills more than 12,000 men a year in the UK, slightly more than the number of women who die from breast cancer.

But while older women have been screened for breast cancer in the UK since 1988, government advisers have always ruled there isn't enough evidence to back prostate screening in men.

Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy and former prime minister Lord David Cameron, who have both been diagnosed with the cancer, have called for the UK to introduce screening so more men are diagnosed at an earlier, treatable stage.

The new research analysed results from the PROBASE trial of just over 39,000 men having prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood tests in combination with MRI scans, and compared them with those from 2.8 million women having a mammogram as part of Germany's breast cancer screening programme.

Encouragingly, prostate screening detected up to 74% of cancers that had begun to spread, roughly the same proportion picked up by routine mammograms, according to results revealed at the European Association of Urology Congress in London.

But prostate screening detected more non-aggressive cancers that only need monitoring - up to 31%, whereas breast screening only detected 22%.

Some experts warned that this could lead men to have treatment they don't need, putting themselves at risk of serious side effects such as incontinence and erectile dysfunction.

Simon Grieveson, from the charity Prostate Cancer UK, said: "There still is not enough evidence here to prove that introducing screening will save the lives of men with aggressive cancer while also protecting men with slow-growing cancer from potentially harmful treatments they don't even need."

But others have welcomed the findings.

Professor Sam Hare, from the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, said: "The PROBASE trial lends further weight behind a risk-stratified, PSA and MRI-based approach to screening for prostate cancer, in a study population that is similar to the UK."

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The UK National Screening Committee, which advises the government, recently recommended prostate screening only for those at very high risk because they have certain genetic mutations.

The decision was widely criticised and Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said he will thrash out the evidence with experts before making a final decision on NHS screening.

The NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) is a system designed to bring together information from across the health service so hospitals can analyse it more easily and improve how care is delivered.

Supporters say the technology is already helping the NHS treat more patients and manage pressure on services, but critics argue it raises wider concerns about privacy, ethics and the role of large technology companies in handling sensitive public sector data.

The FDP aims to connect operational data from across the NHS, including information about waiting lists, hospital capacity and patient pathways, allowing staff to plan care and allocate resources more effectively.

In 2023, NHS England awarded Palantir the contract for the platform worth up to £330m. The company says its technology is already improving how the service functions.

However, the deal has been strongly criticised by some healthcare workers and campaign groups like Medact, who have published a briefing urging NHS bodies to reconsider adopting the platform.

Dr Rhiannon Mihranian Osborne wants the contract to be scrapped, and has told Sky News that staff understand the importance of privacy and ethics in patient care.

She said they are "horrified" by Palantir's involvement in the scheme as it "could seriously damage trust in our health system".

She urged local hospitals not to adopt Palantir software and, in doing so, "put the interests of patients and workers above American big tech corporations".

She said: "We know the rollout isn't going to plan - NHS analysts have told us the software offers nothing special, implementation costs are spiralling and the drive to adopt Palantir tech risks pushing out local, trusted data solutions."

The debate has also drawn in international human rights organisations.

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Matt Mahmoudi, researcher and adviser on artificial intelligence and human rights at Amnesty International, said the company "has a track record of flagrantly disregarding international law and standards, both in the violations of the human rights of migrants in the United States, which it risks contributing to, and its ongoing supply of artificial intelligence products and services to the Israeli military and intelligence services".

Amnesty has asked public institutions to reconsider working with the company, Mr Mahmoudi said.

Health officials say the system is part of a broader push to modernise the NHS and make better use of data to manage demand and improve outcomes for patients.

Palantir told Sky News its software "is playing an important role in improving patient care - helping to deliver 100,000 additional operations, a 12% reduction in discharge delays and the removal of 675,000 patients from waiting lists".

It's up to the NHS to decide how its products are used, the statement said, and data can only be processed "in accordance with their strict instructions".

The firm said it has "no intention of and no means of using the data in the way that the Medact report is suggesting, [as] to do so would be illegal and in breach of contract".

An NHS spokesperson defended the contract, telling Sky News that the platform is "delivering huge benefits for patients and the NHS, joining up care, speeding up cancer diagnosis and ensuring thousands of additional patients can be treated each month".

Palantir, the spokesperson said, was "appointed in line with public contract regulations and must only operate under the instruction of the NHS, with all access to data remaining under NHS control and strict contractual obligations protecting confidentiality".